This is happening to me with all of my recipes and recipes I use from other people. They taste amazing when I first make them yet the 2nd time i make a bottle I either cant taste it as well or it does not taste as good. I make them just the same and let them steep for the same amount of time. Does this happen to anyone else?
This used to happen to me all of the time, so I alternate profiles. I'll go from fruity, to bakery, to something with nuts, to an RY4 or natural tobacco, to menthol, and then come back to a fruity vape. When I decide to stick to one profile for a few days, I always have an RDA with a straight menthol or eucalyptus to cleanse my pallet between refills.
I honestly rotate so much because of the same thing. There are very few recipes that are consistently great, for me at least.
Have about 6 devices with different profiles, that way I don't get fatigued on some flavours.
I'm the same with bottles of wine, lager and green teas. The second time I try something I really liked I don't get why I was so excited. However there are some wines and teas where every single sip is a delight of the senses. After vaping for 4 years I've only found one flavour that does it for me but it doesn't stop me trying every interesting recipe I come across.
Keep chasing the dream!
> for 4 years I've only found one flavour that does it for me
Which is what?
Could be overflavoring causing vapors tongue, aka olfactory fatigue. When it's really bad it can happen within a single drip, or tank, where the first inhale is amazing but after that the flavor is gone. Sometimes it's not until the second bottle that you get olfactory fatigue.
Some of my juices taste great with 1% of a flavor and then get muddled and weak with 1.25%. Sometimes lightning strikes and you get lucky with percentages but often times you need to really experiment hard with percentages. No matter what, vaping the same juice day in day out will cause some type of olfactory fatigue so it's always best to mix things up a bit.
The name olfactory fatigue indicates to me the (perceived) flavour change is smell-based, but I have no sense of smell. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced true vaper’s tongue, just a deterioration of my coil or a dry mouth due to meds I take. But it makes me curious.
Do you happen to know how heavily olfactory fatigue or smell in general affects flavor?