Brace yourselves, the pumpkin spice recipes are coming.

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Autumn Smoke

• FLV Arabian Tobacco- .12%

• FA Cardamom- .1%

• FA Clove- .25%

• FLV Eggnog- .75%

• INW Falcon Eye- 1.5%

• FE Hongtashan- 2%

• TFA Red Oak- 1%

• INW Tobacco Absolute Virginia- 1.25%

Steep time: 2 weeks

The Tobacco Base: FLV Arabian, INW TA Virginia, TFA Red Oak. Arabian tobacco has probably been the trickiest tobacco I've ever tried to use. It was dominating mixes for me at .1%. I never completely gave up on it though because it has something that I really like about it. It's incredibly earthy, musky, and a bit acrid. Very authentic tasting. Just so fucking strong. Perfect here at .12%. The Virginia is also very earthy, but more of a grassy/hay type of thing. Along with the TFA Red Oak, it really blends with the Arabian nicely to complete the base.

The Pumpkin Spice: this recipe was a request, and when it was first requested I hit up the googles to see what pumpkin spice was all about. Found an essential oils recipe to make a pumpkin spice scent, so I just went with that. Ginger, cinnamon, clove, Cardamom, and nutmeg. All things I was already playing with for what I had planned to be a Christmas recipe. I wanted to use some other tobacco flavors to make up as much of the pumpkin spice profile as I could. Why? Because why not? Cinnamon I went with FE Hongtashan. It's got a very distinct Cinnamon note to it. It's a warm and dark flavor, which is perfect for the season. INW Falcon Eye is for the ginger. When I first tested this flavor, ginger jumped out at me. Not much tobacco, but that's ok. I just use it as a ginger flavor. NBD. Nutmeg I went with FLV Eggnog. It's got a nice spice taste that isn't too strong on the eggy part, so I think it works well here to give me the nutmeg I needed, and also help the Hongtashan with the cinnamon. It doesn't push it too far in to winter flavor territory (or at least I hope not.) The clove and cardamom kind of speak for themselves i think. I originally picked them both up for an Arrakis clone, and I've been fiddling with them quite a bit the last month. Very easy for them to get a little out of control, so I keep 'em low.

I know there's a lot of flavors here, and maybe a few that aren't as common, but I've tried to do a simpler version that didn't have all this, and it just wasn't the same. I tried to replace a lot of what I used for the pumpkin spice part with FLV Pumpkin Spice, and it was a pretty hard no. Something about that one just doesn't sit right with me.

I think it can probably be done with some more common flavors. Replace the Hongtashan with a cinnamon that isn't CAP or TFA Cinnamon Danish (unless you like those, i hated both.) Falcon Eye with an actual ginger flavor. If you go HS Gingerbread, I think it will be good, but I would drop that down to .5% or so. It's much stronger on the ginger and I think it's a bit dry. Clove and Cardamom might be able to go, but you'll want to bump up the Eggnog to 1.25% or so.

I have a nasty habit of buying everything that's called "tobacco" and tasting something very much not tobacco, but still using it for the different notes in it. That probably makes my recipes a bit harder to mix, because not a lot of people are going to have Falcon Eye or Hongtashan, but mix 'em if you got 'em. This is probably my favorite recipe of mine so far. I've had trouble keeping 10 ml and 30 ml testers around long enough to see how it steeps. But it's definitely better at the 2 week mark.