TL;DR: Please suggest water enhancers, Top Ramen flavoring packets, and Febreeze scents you want me to vape.
Mixing is competitive, if you make it. In that spirit, I'd like to thank everyone for buying more of my Dogma flavor packs that /u/ID10-T/ 's longing packs. There are multiple extenuating circumstances that someone cynical could point to (I picked oddball flavors, there was a slight supply hiccup with FLV Cream in his pack, I ruthlessly flogged my flavor pack), but we have won. I consider this a victory over ID10-T's burgeoning hegemony and a blow to demagogues everywhere. No hyperbole, the 51 brave souls who bought Dogma packs are more akin to freedom fighters than they are mere consumers. They are handsome, and they are righteous. I extend to them my deepest and heartfelt thanks. Bullshit aside, it's humbling to sell 1 thing with your name attached... let alone 51. Seriously, thank you.
Part of my sales pitch was bribery, I promised to offer my proceeds up to community-directed flavor testing. I've received my check from Drew and the also handsome folks at Bull City Flavors, and the total amount is $325. Thanks to folks who purchased the flavor pack, we have a bit of money to play around with.
My current plan is as follows:
Anything on Bull City Flavors and any single flavors from Chef's Flavours are game. I'd like stay away from the one shots on Chef's, but they do carry some interesting stuff like Solubarome, Decadent Vapours, and I think they carry all the Jungle Flavors stuff as well.
I'm US based, so it's a bit easier for me to order from retailers located here. That puts Wizard Labs, Gremlin DIY, and ECigExpress in play if there's a decent demand for stuff they carry that isn't carried by BCF or Chef's.
I'd like to also work in a couple of other sources. This is very much open to debate, but the SC line at Real Flavors looks really promising from what I've seen so far. I'd also to like throw out DIY Flavorshack as a possibility, as they have some stuff that looks really interesting. If people want to go abroad, I'd like to get a critical mass of at least 10 flavors to make the shipping worth it.
In terms of process, I'm thinking:
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This post will function as the request wall. Please leave your flavor requests as a top level comment. I'll prioritize reviews by upvotes, so get your clicking fingers ready.
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Next Tuesday morning I'll ask the mods to lock the thread and I'll sift through it and make sense of it all. I'll have an order list up and get all of my orders submitted by that weekend.
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I'll start reviews up on concentrates about a week after I start receiving them. I'll do my usual review process. I realize that flavor reviews are a bit subjective, but I can usually get close on the profile and sort out the straight garbage from the stuff that has some promise.
As with any offer, there are some limitations:
I'd like to avoid the plain gross out stuff, within reason. I have a pretty open mind, but I'd like to avoid anything based on meat or seafood.
I'd also like to avoid duplicating reviews we already have in the wiki, within reason. Please check if we already have a review up here: DIY_EJuice Flavor Reviews.
And since I'm doing the reviewing, a couple weird things with palate... I'm a pretty heavy strawberry non-taster. If theres a huge demand for strawberries, I may be able to work something out with another reviewer. I'm also relatively new to tobaccos. I enjoy them, and I'm down to try whatever but I don't exactly have the vocabulary for reviewing them. I'd like to take a shot at any tobacco suggestions, but It may be worth me involving another reviewer for a second opinion.
And that's about it. I'd like to thank the community for the support, both the people that are currently active and the people that have drifted away a bit. We've built a really good knowledge base around here, and I'm honored to help contribute to that.
Leave your suggestions, upvote the ones you agree with, and let's have some fun here.
Do you have flavorah's entire line you plan on reviewing? At least finishing the ones without reviews? That's been the bulk of what you've been putting out.
I don't really have anything to request but to just say thanks for all you contribute. You are a machine with the reviews. Everything you write leaves me with knowing if I will buy the flavor or not; which in the end, is the entire point.
Yup, I've got all the flavorah so If anyone has a request I can probably get it in before this monstrosity starts rolling.
Edit: Also, thank you. I appreciate it. I've been digging the work you've been putting in too. We have great people doing reviews here. I know they aren't a substitute for actual experience, but I've had a lot of success using them to point me in the right direction on these flavors.
Congratulations on your little "victory." This should keep you sufficiently busy and out of trouble for a bit:
From BCF:
INW Dry Cocktail
INW Sesame Sweets
SC Pineapple
SC Raspberry
FW Raspberry
LA Raspberry
SC Tropical Fruit
SC Caramel Candy
SC Mandarin
SC Milk Chocolate
CAP Cola
CAP Cup A Joe
CAP Grenadine
CAP Maple Pancake Syrup
FA Cocoon
FA Monsoon
FA Morning Sun
FA Ozone
FA Reggae Nights
FA Summer Clouds
FA Storm
FW Beetle Juice
FW Grapeberry Ice
FW Green Goblin
FW Jawbreaker
FW Mojito
FW Natural Tangerine
FW Natural Ruby Red Grapefruit
FW Reindeer Poop
FW Salty Butter Balls
HS Blue Cola
HS Red Cola
From Chef's:
DV Lime Zinger
DV Orangella
JF Cherry
OSDIY Choco Yum Cake
SA Apricot Tart
SA Brazilian Blood Orange
SA Guava
SA Madeline
SA Pancake
SA Speculoos Biscuit
From RF (SC):
Baja Soda
Beaver Tail
Black Label French Vanilla
Blue Moon Ice Cream
Bourbon
Brandy
Candy Base
Caramel
Caramel Apple
Carrot
Carrot Cake
Cherry Cola Type
Cherry Limeade
Chocolate Chip Cookie
Cookie Dough
Buttercrisp Candy Bar
Deep Fried Spongecake
Sriracha
Paczki
Rice Pudding
Rose
Spearmint
Taffy Base
Tomato
Tropical Punch
Edit: Decided list was too long, trimmed it up a bit.
>Sriracha
Seconded
He said no meat or seafood. Didn't say anything about sriracha. Also, I checked to make sure none of these had already been reviewed.
Can I add RFSC condensed milk and butter toffee? I'd like a second opinion.
Add SC Caramel Cream Puff and that should about cover it. Haha!
I'd like to see some reviews on some of those abstract FA concentrates like "storm"
I wanna see what you think about the RF SC line. Been using them more often these days and they're definitely interesting.
http://www.bullcityflavors.com/fire-cinnamon-flv/
This looks interesting. Also I'd like to offer up my services as a strawberry taster, if it comes to that. Are you limiting requests by user?
Not limiting requests, but I've got that already. I'll get to it before all the new stuff shows up. And If you want to be my strawberry guy, that would be awesome.
Would love to see some of the 'staple' Real Flavors done, e.g. Brown Sugar, Vanilla Custard, Sugar Cookie etc. I have some of these steeping for single flavour testing however my palate lacks nuance, would like to see the ConcreteRiver method done on these.
RF Cucumber SC YOU MUST KNOW THE TRUTH.
THE ONE TRUE CUCUMBER VAPE.
I dig Cucumber vapes; can you give a brief synopsis? I was a fan of CAP, then tried FLV and that one is taking first place for me so far -- not quite as juicy but still juicy, very authentic Cucumber flavor like the light green flesh, and got a real nice kick of sweetness to it
I actually reviewed it, shameless link!
https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/comments/65erin/rf_cucumber_bigger_than_yours/
TL;DR: great balance of juicy, to flesh, and rind with a good hint of salty. Replaced CAP for me.
Slightly off topic as you already own the two I want reviews on but I would love for you to do a review on Pink Guava (Flavorah) and Ruby Red Grapefruit (FW). While I do already own Pink Guava and I know I like it, your gift of being able to totally describe the flavor is a valuable asset in terms of how I could use this in other ways. I don't yet have Ruby Red Grapefruit but again would like to read your views on this.
Your work on all these reviews is very much appreciated and that goes for all the other people who have contributed towards making the flavor review section here on Reddit a comprehensive and valuable archive full of knowledge for all to benefit from.
If you're interested in those check out his [Terrorhawk] (https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/comments/55d4en/october_2016_recipe_thread/d8o3ezm) recipe. It's fucking fantastic and uses both of these. It includes some pretty good notes as well.
I'm for sure going to do FW Ruby Red Grapefruit Natural. It looks like FW discontinued their normal version, so I need to figure out if the natural version is going to be comparable. My own notes are a bit lacking on Pink Guava, but I can certainly take another look solo.
If you're into trying some tobaccos, give Super Concentrates a try -- I, for one, would love hearing your thoughts on a couple of my favorites lately: Seven and Maxx Blend. I've heard good things about Cohiba too (it's in my cart currently awaiting my trigger finger).
Far too few Hangsen reviews around here so those would also be a welcome addition, I'm sure, for the tobacco heads.
As a non strawberry taster I would like to see if you get anything from some strawberry concentrates. I too have difficulty tasting strawberry in my subohm setup (for some reason MTL fixes that). I can however taste RF Strawberry subohm, but it misses some top notes.
I've been debating doing something like that. I have a pile of strawberries at this point. I may do an article doing some quick write-ups. I think it'd be interesting, but oh lord the amount of vaping it'd require. It's a wholly unsatisfying answer, but I'll get around to it.