That one recipe has been floating around for at least two years now. It bears approximately zero resemblance to the actual recipe. 10% toasted is the stuff of nightmares.

I'm interested in seeing what y'all come up with. Tripoli is one of the flavors I'm the most proud of, and I love that it introduces tobacco profiles to people that think tobacco = cigarette.

Good luck, everyone!

Alright, I’m going to play along this month. Not really going to clone it as much as I am going to use the profile and do my own thang with it.

Here’s what I’m doing for V1:

HS Turkish Blended- 1.25%

FLV Turkish- 1%

FLV Fig- .75%

CAP Toasted Almond- .25%

INW Sphynx Tobacco- .25% (aka S’Desert Ship)

I’ll come back with changes as they happen.

Alright, if anyone is still checking this post for updates, here is my final recipe for it.

I'm trying to think of what qualifies for 'rare spices'.. cardamom? Clove? Cinnamon? Anise? Capsaicin?

Alright, some new developments in my tribute attempt. 1- I didn’t much care for my first recipe. I’ll blame the Toasted Almond. Ended up going .5% just to make sure it was noticeable, and it was, but not very good. 2- Nic River has a sale this weekend and I ordered some FA Almond. Hopefully it’s better, and I’ll use that instead. 3- I think I’m gonna use INW Fortuna Strike instead of FLV Fig. It’s a darker, almost syrupy kind of prune flavor. I know the description says fig, but it’s ballpark. It’s kind of a pain to get this flavor. Basically have to order it direct unless you want to order from Wizard Labs. 4- I just tested HS Elder Captain today, and I will be using that for the Spice note.

So new recipe will likely look something like this:

FA Almond- 1% (average on ATF is 1.1%)

HS Elder Captain- .25%

INW Fortuna Strike- 1.5%

HS USA Mix- 1.25%

INW Oriental- 1%

So it’s completely different, but I have higher hopes. I’ve been working on a Turkish recipe for a while, and the new version of that has the Elder, USA, and Oriental, so I’m basically just taking a couple things out and adding a couple things.

/u/guts_rage if this new one turns out decent, and you’re in the states, I can send you some if you want. Wouldn’t expect you to have all those tobaccos to mix it up yourself.

I'm trying Tripoli for the first time just now. Here are some first-taste impressions.

I'm not going to be trying to clone this, for a number of reasons. First of all, it's complex AF, and cloning is so much easier with simple recipes. The profile is complex (just look at the description) and the juice tastes complex. Some recipes have a way of magically making very few ingredients taste complex, but this tastes more like a lot of ingredients that are expertly not muddled. It might be clone-proof.

Also, the tobaccos. I don't have a damned clue which tobaccos they're using. They're almost certainly FA and/or TFA tobaccos, possibly INW or HS but I doubt it. And I have very little experience with those and lack the desire to try to figure them out. I hope it's not FA Desert Ship, as some have assumed in the past, or I'll have to replace my coils and wash my atty, that stuff is so lingery. But if it is, kudos to Charlie Noble for making me like something with Desert Ship (yuck!) in it. Because I do like this, very much. However, I think the same profile could be done better thanks to FLV tobaccos. They have changed the game. This could very well have been the best-tasting tobacco juice on the market when it came out in 2014 but it's 2017 now. I might steal their profile and make my own Turkish tobacco/almond/fig/spice recipe, but there are all my reasons to sit out actually attempting to clone it. I don't know if I'd ever succeed in making something this smooth that's not also too wet for this kind of tobacco vape and also distinctly sweet but not too sweet, though. It's a really finely crafted juice that /u/prettymatthew has created, for sure, and I don't pretend to be that skilled. It seems to be riding several fine lines all at once. I wish /u/feartx would make something with a nutty/figgy/spicy Turkish tobacco profile, he definitely does have the skill and experience to pull it off.

Anyway, impressions on the rest of the juice. The spicy top note is very subdued and if you told me that it's just the spiciness of whatever tobacco concentrates were used, I would believe you. You would have to ask someone like /u/ChemicalBurnVictim about which TFA/FA/INW/HS tobacco flavors are spicy. But there could also be some ginger, cardamom, and and/or cinnamon added to a not-at-all spicy tobacco. There's a strange coolness to the finish here that contributes to it's smoothness, almost like it has a minute amount of mint or menthol in there, and that reminds me of cardamom or ginger, moreso cardamom. If it's FA Cardamom you are looking at 0.25% OR LESS, quite likely a lot less, like the amount you'd need make a dilution for, as that stuff is strong and again the spice here is subdued. I don't know what ginger, if any, probably none, but ginger despite being spicy comes across kind of cool like Tripoli does. The juice has also got a warmer spice aspect to it that could be a hint of cinnamon, like a tiny around of a cinnamon bakery flavor (TFA Cinnamon Sugar Cookie or something like that, used very very low?) or FA Ceylon, but I doubt it. I do not taste anything like Nutmeg, Allspice, or Clove here and I'd like to think I could pick those out easy enough. That would rule out things like Holiday Spice and Pumpkin Spice and all of that nonsense.

For the almond note, I think that's TFA Toasted Almond but at like 1%. That 10% TFA Toasted Almond "clone" really is fucking ridiculous and can't possibly taste like anything more than it tastes like mouth breathing while simultaneously eating toasted almonds while preparing for self-immolation by dousing yourself with diesel fuel. I hope no one tries that shit. On the other hand, this tastes a lot nuttier than the nuttiness you'd get from only 1% TFA Toasted Almond. So I'd look to add another nut. I've never tried the TFA Natural Almond used in one of the so-called clones, maybe it's that. Maybe it's FA Almond. Maybe it's a different nut altogether, backing up the almond. Every few hits, I'm vaguely reminded of Peanut Butter. TFA Peanut Butter likes to steep to more of a vague, dry nuttiness, and we know PrettyMatthew likes his TFA Peanut Butter so maybe a little that. But this juice has just the right amount of dryness for a tobacco vape, and TFA Peanut Butter seems like it would be a step too far into the desert. I wouldn't rule out FA Peanut at like 0.25%, or Nut Mix, or any of the hazelnut flavors. FW Hazelnut is smooth and not too distinctly hazelnutty to read as almond when combined with almond. Could be some good old fashioned TFA Acetyl Pyrazine 5% backing up the almond. Then again, it could just be an especially nutty tobacco, which I know there are several of.

Fig - I don't know, I'm not that experienced with fig. All I can tell it is that it is delicious and my favorite part of this juice and that it is definitely not FA Fresh Fig unless there's some seriously crazy interactions going on in here. TFA Fig, FW Fig? Probably one of those figs I've never tried either of them. Then again, it could again be just a figgy tobacco; look for flavors reviews of TFA/FA/HS/INW tobaccos that mention figs, there are several.

Good luck to anyone trying to clone this, you're gonna need it.

Edit: If someone with more tobacco experience wants to try to seriously tackle this, I'll send you some Tripoli.

Damn, I saw Charlie Noble first and got super excited then I saw it was Tripoli. I'll try again for next month. If I try enough times maybe it will get picked one day.

Tripoli is good though and I look forward to seeing where this thread goes.

Not a clone attempt but an experiment using what I have on hand.

1.75% Almond (FA)
2.50% Fig Fresh (FA)
0.75% Gold Ducat (INAWERA)
0.50% Liquid Amber (FA)
0.50% Perique Black (FA)
1.25% Toasted Almond (TPA)
3.25% Turkish Tobacco (Flavorah)

Flavor total: 10.5%

Just an FYI if anyone is searching for it in the future:

maine vape co prickly smooth

https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/47284#ruby_red_by_enyawreklaw

so close it's scary

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