TOKYO COWBOY
Brand | Flavor | Amount ---------|----------|---------- TFA | RY4 Double | 6% FA | Shade | 2% TFA | Vanilla Bourbon | 1.5% CAP| Pralines and Cream | 1% FW | Vanilla Butternut| 4% FA | Torrone | 0.7% TFA | Red Oak | 1% CAP | Graham Cracker (v1)| 1% TFA | Bavarian Cream | 1% CAP | Cinnamon Danish Swirl | 0.25%
The idea behind this was to create an all day RY-type tobacco without the sickly caramel sweetness becoming too much or outshining the tobacco flavor (the tobacco is still mild enough in this for it to enjoyed by non tobacco lovers). My experiance with Premium RY flavours is a lot of sweetner or RY4 Double drowned in custard leaving next to no tobacco taste left. The mix is complex enough for it to be vaped all day without becoming boring, but isn't super confused. The key to this whole liquid is the FW Vanilla Butternut not a pumpkin/vegetable flavor. For everyone in the EU I got this from Rainbowvapes after searching through every other conc vendor I could think of these guys are the only ones I could find selling it.
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RY4 Double
This is the base of the mix that everythign else sits in, not going to talk too much about this almost everyone know what this is and what it does. It is a sweet very light tobacco doused in caramel and vanilla.
Shade
Okay, shade is a light and mild tobacco flavor that packs quite a punch and can be vaped solo around 3.5%, in this mix it's job is the remind everyone that this is a tobacco flavour it sits right on top of all the flavours and helps bring out the tobacco taste of RY4D. If you strip RY4D of its caramel and vanilla a watered-down less distinctive Shade is whats left.
Vanilla Bourbon
For those unaware this is not a whiskey flavor bourbon vanilla is a type of vanilla grown in madagascar. Unlike all the french vanillas and concs like INW Shisha vanilla this isnt sweet or creamy it is a raw natural vanilla taste, kind of like the vanilla extract you use in baking without the sugar, It reinforces the vanilla in the RY4D and helps lend a more natural vanilla pod taste to the juice.
Pralines and Cream
I don't think this is a particularly good flavour but it seems to work well here, The small amount added lends a slight nuttyness to the tobacco and helps give a dark brown surary taste, its not enough to make this a hazlenut tobacco as you wont taste any hazlenut, it just adds a generic nuttyness to the juice and help the Torrone blend in.
Vanilla Butternut
HOLY SHIT this stuff is really good, no pumpkin/squash flavour it's more of a mapely, brown sugary, butterscotchy vanilla. Ive ordered 100ml of this stuff because it's just so damn good, if any one has every tried Coval - Azeroth I swear this is in it. Whilst azeroth can get very sicky its still a damn good juice and one of few I will still buy. Back to the flavor at hand in this juice it brings it to life, adding more vanilla and maple/caramel flavors to the mix without introducing too much sweetness.
Torrone
Torrone will give the juice some texture and lend another layer of nuttyness to the tobacco without swamping it, along with helpign to combat the dryness.
Red Oak
Red Oak gives a little smokiness but no where near as much as INW Dirty base will, this is still a mild tobacco but a tobacco none the less so some depth of flavour and smokiness is needed, along with adding to woody notes to help the tobacco.
Graham Cracker
CAP over TFA GCclear here because it's a little spicier having more cinnamon notes. The graham cracker is just here to give body to the mix whilst adding a little complexity with its spice.
Bavarian Cream
This helps tie all the low percentage flavours together and again helps with the dryness. I wanted to keep custards out of this mix because I think they can overpower and add too much of the wrong type of vanilla. Again like the Torrone this also fights off the dryness.
Cinnamon Danish Swirl
This is not a cinnamon tobacco and wont taste like a cinnamon tobacco. The small amount here helps give more complexity and mixes well with the Graham cracker, It just adds another subtle layer of flavor to help keep the juice from becoming boring.
TLDR: Buy some FW- vanilla Butternut and thank me later.
I fucking love FW Vanilla Butternut. It's probably the best smelling concentrate ever.
When it first arrived I cracked the bottle and gave it a whiff. Dude. I was smelling my fingers every 10 mins for the next few hours like a freak.
I don't even enjoy tobacco flavors buuuut I'm going to try and use this to change my mind on that. This haaas to be good.
Glad to hear it, if you struggle with it and want something lighter on the tobacco front shoot me a DM I'm working on a fruity fig/raisin tobacco with rum.
If your gonna give this a try I recommend halving the amount of red oak, going 4.5% on the vanilla butternut and 1.5 on the shade. It should lighten the tobacco even more.
Cool! That sounds great! Like pulling the foil off a new pack of Kamel Reds and just smelling it. That's where my mind went. First really wonderful thought involving tobacco in almost three years!
Man, I'm missing CAP Pralines and cream and FW vanilla butternut (which I have taken out of my cart like 3 times now), but damn this looks like a tobacco mix that's right up my ally.
FA Torrone hates me. Even at 1 drop per 30ml it eats at my soul.
You could try subbing the torrone with 1% fa marzipan for a similar effect
I am a bit partial to Marzipan so I think I'll drop some in my basket on my next order, thanks for the suggestion. I'm not exactly sure what it is about Torrone that I find offensive but I get a sort of a high floral type note from it that just takes over my mixes even at ridiculously low amounts.