The flavors that I’ve come across that seem like they’d work well in a cigarette recipe have mostly given me Marlboro Red vibes. I hated Reds when I smoked though. SC M-Style, INW US Red Mix, and FE Real Cig all have those kind of high note, chemical cigarette taste that I got from Reds. Then there’s FLV Classic Cigarette and FLV Arabian that are both kind of funky and kind of have a chemical note to them, but don’t necessarily scream Reds to me. Maybe more of a roll your own type of thing.

When I smoked, I was a loyal Camel man. First carton I ever bought was Camel Turkish Silvers (I believe these have since been reblended, and from the reviews I’ve read they suck now.) Then I bought cartons of Camel Filters (also got a new Blend in 2008, which apparently sucks too.) Then I finally settled on Camel Lights. Mixing wise, I’m more interested in the Turkish Silvers (the way I remember them) and Camel Filters. I read Cigarette reviews quite a bit to try to remember the taste, and it seems like Camel Unfiltered is the only blend that has remained constant, so I’ve been using those reviews to guide my mixing.

I’ve only had a couple packed of Camel Turkish Golds, but from what I remember, they were similar to the Silvers, but a bit more robust.

Camel Turkish Gold

Not a finished recipe!

• HS Elder Captain- .25%
• INW Fortuna Strike- 1%
• FLV Oriental- .75%
• FLV Sweet Cigarette- .5%
• INW US Light Mix- .75%

Sweet Cigarette and US Light are actually pretty similar, but US Light has a very strange, authentic cigarette quality to it. It’s got a bit of ash and nastiness that really makes it taste like a light cigarette to me.

/u/gaviotu posted this recipe in the February recipe thread, and it seems pretty promising so far. It got me interested in trying to figure out this damn Camel thing once and for all. I’ve only been messing around with it for a couple days, so I can’t say this is going to be great in a week or two, but it’s decent so far. Definitely going to be working on it more.

Camel Toe

• HS No. 5- 3%
• FLV Red Burley- .8%
• INW S’Camel- 2.5% (aka Pyramid aka Dromedary)
• INW Tobacco Absolute Oriental- .8%
• INW Dirty Neutral Base- 1%

It’s nutty and rich, and has a bit of that Turkish vibes in it, but I am thinking I need to add a little something to really boost the Oriental spice notes. I was messing around with HS Desert Ship with it, and it might make its way back in. Also considering TFA Turkish. God help me.

Checking out the 3 recent FOTW tobacco posts along with anything posted by /u/bobbysavage is probably going to be your best bet for tackling this one.

Aromatic Tobacco

Non-aromatic Tobacco

Tobacco Additives

Here's an older FOTW on tobacco blends as well

Man reading this thread makes me crave for cigarettes again. And not the crappy marlboro ones. I had an Italian class mate back I shanghai who often rolls his cigs, and when I ran out I bummed him some. Felt weird smoking a rolled up cig, but i remember it was quite tasty. I also had a Japanese friend who introduced me to Caster a Japanese cigarette that's like lights, but had a vanilla taste. I swear it was so addictive. Then I visited some friends in Indonesia and was able to try clove cigarettes. Man they were also good. But difficult to chain smoke due to the complexity and spiceness of the flavors.

Ive seriously thought about your question (shit now y'all know im lyin')

Extract a (good) cigar. (serious) then go from there

or creep /u/solanaceaeenthusiast for the 1up

Thanks for all the input so far, Things I've going for now -Dirty Neutral Base -Desert Ship -Western (TFA) but I can't find it on ecig express, (which is the only site I can find DNB on. I did find a possible alt. in the form on American Tobacco USA (FW) http://www.ecigexpress.com/diy-e-liquid/browse-flavorings/tobacco-flavors/american-tobacco-usa-blend-by-flavor-west.html?p=2 -Spearmint

I had 2 requests:

Would the American Tobacco USA be a good fill-in for the Western TPA (which a lot of folks said was a good base) and then..

I have tobacco absolute (ECX) which I've used in boba bounty attempts, which I learned was a strong tobacoo flavor, I haven't used it enough towards a cigeratte flavor, but do any tobacco folks have any exp with TA (ECX)

Thanks in advance.

ok so, my opinion, if you're willing to drip and spend some time for best taste results would be to go the naturally extracted tobacco route.

What you'll be doing is essentially cloning diy recipes for folks who roll their own cigarretes using tubes and machines (they do this to save money)

So they've already done the ground work to try and get something close to what the original cigarette tasted like.

so first, naturally extracted tobacco overview : https://www.reddit.com/r/diytobaccoejuice/comments/3lde8i/wikivapia_net_article/

tldr : macerate real tobacco in pg with or without heat and then filter it, now you have a concentrate.

This concentrate = a flavor extract, just like you would buy to make any diy ejuice

so you'll be doing this for multiple different tobacco blends once you have a recipe you want to recreate (you have to make your own concentrates)

for recipe examples we search terms such as "roll your own tobacco recipes" and find pages like this , but lots of sites exist such as [this](http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/best-menthol-roll-your-own-cigarettepipe-tobacco-discussion] <-which is easy because its one and done , or for the more complicated but probably better for end results (as you'll be able to tweak it to your liking) by blending

heres one talking actual %'s

so to recap, in my opinion for the best flavor youll want to extract your own concentrate using real tobacco and mix with that.

if you want to try some to see if this is worth your time, id recommend these folks , clays been making NET for like 5 years or something, i'm almost positive he will gladly give one of those a kick of menthol for you and then you can judge for yourself if this is the route to go.

I’ve been looking everywhere for an RYO tobacco recipe for either Tourney or Maverick full flavor. I know Tourney is considered a generic but I’m not sure about Maverick, and I assume that’s why I’m having trouble finding recipes for them. The main thing is looking for is a full flavor that’s more harsh and “crisp” than something like Marlboro and camel. Those both taste thick, heavy and not strong enough.

It is very hard to describe the taste of smoke as I have recently learned.

Folks gotta want it. Lots of good tobacco threads. Mostly for vapers because the flavors to me seem very different than analogs. I’ve never experimented with dirty neutral base and look forward to trying more ashy types.

From experience, smokers who want juice that taste like cigarettes don't really want to quit and they inevitably give up on quitting.

They're just wasting your time, consciously or not, so they can say "I've tried!".