There is a French (?) company called Solubarome whose aromas are hideously cheap, like €7 for 113ml bottles etc. They have aromas like "Breakfast", "Mother Milk", "Reactor Fluid", "Snake" etc. and from the few reviews I saw now their aromas are actually supposed to be good.
I only now have bought one, their "Snake" to try it out and it's an interesting mix of Absinthe, citrus, licorice, vanilla etc. and smells really good. I am still steeping it and haven't vaped it tho.
Does anyone have experience with these Solubarome flavours? Percentages, reviews etc.?
Their Absinthe and Mojito are pretty strong. Some like pear Almond or their candy banana have a chemical taste when used as single flavor. The Pear Almond tastes better when you add some sweetener additive, and I did not try the banana candy with the sweetener yet.
There's a French (with English translation I believe) website with users review about some/most of their flavors here -> http://www.vapcook.com/
I recently bought a bunch of flavor from them, but can't really comment as I never did any batch with rigorous measurement and steeping before the last one that's still in steeping, and I've never tried their already mixed concentrates like "Breakfast" and "Snake". They gave me a "Lapin Original" with my last order but it's still steeping.
I'd recommend the speculoos cookie, and the taste is fairly reminiscent of the cookies. It's smooth and dense when I use it at 9%.
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I mixed testers for at least a half dozen of their flavors but I haven't tried any yet (as expected). I was going to grab one this morning since I needed a new juice anyway, but now I can't find the damn box of stuff I made in Feb. Ugh. Needed my morning vape, so I grabbed a "Honey Bun" from 4/16/2016 and had that instead LOL.
tl:dr I'm no help right now :(
Caramel: Simply amazing. Grab this one for sure.
Raspberry: Tart realistic raspberry.
Taro: Candied peanuts taste, delicious but very harsh. It's a huge bummer because the taste is so good. Still usable in recipes in still amounts for an interesting twist.
Honey: Very authentic honey flavor.
Nuage Caramélique (Caramel Cloud): Milky caramel, reminds me of sweetened condensed milk.
Eucalyptus: Very similar to INW's.
Rhum Vanille: Smells absolutely wonderful. Tastes like sweet nothing. In vape form anyway, haven't tried it in yogurts or coffee yet.
Anis: Straightforward anise taste. Good one.
Absinthe: Anisy with some herbal complexity.
Pain Grillé (Toasted Bread): That is toasted alright, even a bit burned I'd say. It's nice though, I haven't played around with it much but I'm sure it can work well in recipes.
Mirabelle: Smells so good, but it's harsh and doesn't have that much flavor. I need to try if a little bit of sweetener could maybe improve it.
Captain Jack: Very, very good rhum tobacco but harsh. I like to mix it with INW Dark for Pipe.
Nice! Have you been noticing a pattern in percentages? 5-10 maybe?
I've got the raspberry crumble and red fruit crumble steeping, I can tell the rasp crumble is awful, and the red fruit crumble has potential for exceptional awesomeness.
If you think about it, reply back after you try them. I've got both but haven't mixed either yet. What % did you do?
Ok, Raspberry Crumble might be up some folks alley, not mine. I'd keep it low as an accent for something along the lines of Rhodonite. >4%.
The Red Fruit Crumble, is faily nice at 4% & 10%, but could definitely use a "deeper" red berry under it, maybe FA Forest Fruit. I'm trying to incorporate it in a Five Pawns Symmetry Six clone, which is a sugared Rhubarb and Strawberry with a heavy oat & graham crumble, doused with a rich vanilla cream. It can definitely work as a filler for such a recipe, but it doesn't have that rich, grainy crumble note I'm after.
Thanks for getting back to me! I struggle to find a raspberry profile that I really enjoy. Sounds promising about the red berry though. I'll move that up in the queue.
The recipe you are working on sounds delicious though. Have you given tfa cheesecake Graham crust a shot in that mix? I get more crunch out of it at about 2 than I do any graham cracker or bakery I've tried.
I have a few of their flavorings. Picked them up from Chefs when I was in the UK. They're definitely interesting, and while they feel a bit heavy in overall aroma, they are extra tools in the box. Though the "Mother Milk" is useless imo.
Ok I tied this "Snake V2" now after 3 days of steeping, aware it needs to steep longer.
Mind you, I am not a fruity-guy, I usually like RY4, tobacco/coffee-style flavours but don't mind other good flavours as well.
That Snake V2..is definitely..something different. Probably not even because of the taste itself, but of what it reminds me of.
Vaping this...reminds me of being in Florida (at my ex's inlaws nice house), drinking a Margarita/Mojito at the pool. And it reminds me of her mama's fruity air fresheners....but not in a bad sense. Fresh, uplifting..summer time etc...
It's a fruity flavour but not so much candy-fruity, but a little tangy, definitely lime in it and some very (!) slight bitterness in it like grapefruit. Very refreshing. But there is also a good "roundess" to it probably from the Vanilla or whatever is in there. I would not say "bad", at all...but probably not something for an ADV...in the same way as you wouldn't always sit on a pool and drink mojitos all day long.
(Tried this at 10% I think using a Kayfun Lite at 1.5Ohms and 11.5W, yes MTL here)
Will have to let it sit longer...but just wanted to report in.
I really liked Snake, Reactor Pluid (herbal absinth-ish) and Fredmaster Evolution (Berrys). Fredmaster was my ADV for quite some time.
I couldn't stand their mothers milk clones, lapin (original bunny clone). First tastes like an old sock, the second has a disgusting peach note (cat piss).
Breakfast (toast with strawberry jam) was vapable but tastes very artificial to me. Like cheap gas station juice.
I just made like a quarter of a gallon of TFA DRY4 and for some reason I am soooo over it...I might look into these, really need a new ADV. FredMaster looks interesting. These flavours are so cheap, this is what made me suspicious at first, like €6 per 113ml but overall it seems to be some really decent flavours from what I see.
I have 20 or so of their flavors, with some mixed feelings about most of them. 5-10% seems a reasonable starting point. I love the reactor fluid, and was a big fan of the original Pluid. I'll try to remember to dig up some notes for you when I'm at home.
i like their fruits but i don't like their other stuff (white chocolate, graham cracker, cookie, creme brulee, marshmallow) they all taste very chemical to me.
fruits are okay to very good: strawberry is very nice, reminds me of CAP sweet strawberry but better. Cherry is not that good but not bad either, at least it doesn't taste of cough syrup at all. banana ripe is awesome, it's not as creamy as other bananas i've tried which i like a lot. raspberry tastes similar to CAP Raspberry. noix de coco tahiti tastes like cocos flakes but not that sweet.
for single flavor recipes i'd go from 3 to 5% for most of the fruits.
Their blue raspberry is really nice. Tastes like the blue slush puppies flavour unlike other blue raspberry flavours which just taste of blueberry and raspberry.
Tried a few others but can't remember right now but I'm happy with them all and they are very under rated especially for their price.