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#This week's flavor is: ORANGE
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Next week's flavor will be: Cheesecake
The week after that will be: Coffee
The week after that will be: Graham Cracker/Pie Crust
The week after that will be: Coconut
The week after that will be: Cookie Dough & Cake Batter
The week after that will be: Custard
The week after that will be: Peach
The week after that will be: Red Raspberry
The week after that will be: Sweeteners
The week after that will be: Cinnamon Pastries
The week after that will be: Vanilla
The week after that will be: Cantaloupe
The week after that will be: Honeydew
The week after that will be: Watermelon
The week after that will be: Pecan
The week after that will be: Hard Liquor
The week after that will be: Pear
The week after that will be: Cranberry
The week after that will be: Mango
The week after that will be: Ginger
The week after that will be: International Creams (Bavarian, Vienna, Catalan)
The week after that will be: Honey
The week after that will be: Peanut Butter
The week after that will be: Ube/Taro/Yam
The week after that will be: Cookies & Biscuits
The week after that will be: Lemonade
The week after that will be: Mint
The week after that will be: RY4
The week after that will be: Crème Brûlée
The week after that will be: Domestic Creams (Sweet and just plain Cream)
Pressed for time, just some quick notes of my personal opinions.
- FA Orange - Sharp orange with lots of peel. Easily turns into burnt zest at 1% and above. Butyric acid off note.
- CAP Juicy Orange - Fresh and juicy, but weak and lacks body.
- TFA Orange Cream - Decent, but rather mellow orange and leaning heavily towards the cream.
- TFA Orange Mandarin - Much more flavorful than the cream, bright and has a good body. Nail polish off note.
- FW Blood Orange - Fresh, bright, juicy and flavorful. Very authentic.
- INW Shisha Orange - A step above FW Blood Orange, very similar, not as sharp, closer to a regular orange.
- MB Juicy Orange - Darker, almost over ripe, but fairly accurate orange juice. Kinda weak.
Thank you for this. Do you not also get murderous throat hit from CAP Juicy Orange?
Does anybody else have trouble with FW Blood Orange separating? The orange oil always separated and even was somehow finding its way out of the bottle, shit was a mess after a while. I had to throw it out.
I recently ordered TFA Dreamsicle. Had TFA Orange Creamsicle as my first ever order 3 years back. Mixed at 7% and did a 1 drop tongue test.... Furniture polish!
Perhaps it's redone or something? Cut it by 100% volume with VG and let steep a week. Still quite overwhelming.
No - FA Mandarin (Tanger)?! I feel that this should find a place in the orange world as well. Its part of the orange family. FA is pretty sweet and juicy, no real noticeable zest/rind. It's probably one of my favorite oranges to use. I espeically like to pair it with .25% FA - Orange to add that hint of zest and make a more authentic orange flavor to my taste.
Yes of course FA Mandarin (Tanger). All the mandarins. All the tangerines. Hell, even the bergamots. IT'S ORANGE WEEK MUDDAFUCKERS!
I have this one in my "bag o' flavours" as I like to call it, and I have never actually fucked around with it. Guess it's time to change that.
This makes me want to revisit my Amaretto Orange attempt. The recipe was:
- Shisha Orange (INW) 0.5%
- Mandarin (FA) 3%
- Amaretto (FM) 2%
I left it alone for a few days and it smelled amazing and crazy authentic. Unfortunately it tasted like burnt tires. Maybe too much FM Amaretto. Just throwing this out there.
Did you solo tested FM amaretto? I only have FW Almond Amaretto, it pairs really well with TPA orange cream. It gives it a cristalized orange peal taste to it, ending up tasting like marzipan.
Interesting, I might have to give that one a shot.
I tested FM Amaretto at 8% like they suggest and almost threw up lol. It's just foul at that percentage and that's how I know the burnt tire taste comes from it. Their pistachio is the same at 8% but I like it at 2% so I tried Amaretto at the same concentration... Still too high for that one it looks like.
We're on a roll with all the citrus fruits lately, nice!
- FA Orange - Seconding /u/leapinglabrats on this. Lots of peel, didn't like it in 'Sicle
- TFA Orange Cream - Seconding /u/leapinglabrats again, creamy, weak orange, but no peel at least
- FA Tanger - More orange than tangerine, chalky (little like what EM tastes to me) and slightly lemony
- FA Blood Orange - Sweet, orangy, no off-flavors for me. /u/concreteriver recommends this as an orange flavor and I agree.
- FA Royal Orange Juice - If I'd try 'Sicle again, I'd sub FA Orange with this one. Waxy as /u/concreteriver describes, although I swear I get a vanilla/vanilla swirl off-note there.
- CAP Sweet Tangerine - Way too sweet for me, very weak orange. Single Flavor tested this up until 8% to get some tangerine taste from it. Could work to sweeten up an orange recipe.
I agree about FA Royal Orange. I get a creamy vanilla taste on the exhale. I disagree (somewhat) on the CAP Sweet Tangerine. It is sweet for me. But I get a great tasting sweet orange flavor from it. I like it better than all of Flavourarts orange flavor because it has a fluffy texture and isn't dry. I get dryness from FA's orange/citrus flavors.
Most Orange flavors tend to make my lungs hurt, why is that?
This happens to me too -- I've found just 3%, post steep, of Hypnotic Mist smacks me pretty hard. Fresh/SNV it doesn't bother me, as much. I keep coming back to various blends of orange and cream with twice the amount, or more, of orange(s) in them as the aforementioned HM mix and find it less aggressive in pain response. Cream, I think, might be something to try, if you're into that sort of thing...
How do other citrus flavors treat you?
I got one a while back but haven't played with it much. It's Hangsen Green Orange. It's a unique flavor. Its hard to describe.
There’s a flavor review for it, I think. Did your experience match the review?
Yeah /r/ConcreteRiver does a good job reviewing it. I had to look it up. Its a pleasant orange flavor with something green going on. He uses the word zest. Thats it, a bit of lime maybe.
I just checked my flavour stash on elr and I'd forgotten I had FW Blood Orange and Sweet Tangerine. Then I realised I've never even had an Orange vape in 9 years of vaping. Any suggestions what I could throw one or both of these into as I'm mainly vaping fruits atm anyways. I have over 250 other flavours in my stash so I'm pretty sure I can make something useable.
Blood Orange:
https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/1127#pebbles_by_notcharlesmanson
https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/19343#krucial_strawberry_margarita_by_krucial
https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/27038#creme_de_orange_by_goldfish18
https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/28067#adams_blood_orange_pillow_by_kauz514
https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/49849#freon_cream_neon_cream_remix_remixmonth_by_chewingpaintchips
https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/34175#key_to_success_by_sirpeanutjelly
https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/46555#epic_summer_juice_by_wodde
Blood Orange and Sweet Tangerine:
https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/44373#slammer_by_rhinox04
https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/43416#tangerine_creamsicle_by_lulzor
Sweet Tangerine:
https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/26946#in_a_godda_da_vida_by_mlnikon
https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/48703#hawaiian_pog_remix_by_gwandrei
https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/63003#slammin_tangerine_by_dodgerfog33
https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/50504#da_vida_loca_by_mediocrevibes
https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/48608#titanic_by_id10_t
https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/73565#ample_by_maxsavage
https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/12816#cactus_coitus_by_philosaphucker
https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/14479#paradise_sunrise_by_louiesquared
https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/51808#parrot_by_kb_zwrl
One odd combination of flavors that works really well together - FA Bergamot and INW Marzipan. After discovering that I looked around some... someone into bakery flavors may be interested in hitting that with JF Yellow Cake or a pound cake flavor or something, try making a Stöellen juice.
Woo excited for this one. I only have juicy orange but I can't make it work. It's super harsh
Yeah, that one's unfortunate. It's tempting to use because it tastes like orange juice, but it's most prominent characteristic is throat rape.
Would just about maxing out EM in a recipe with Juicy Orange work to make it more like 'throat indecent exposure' than throat rape?
Every orange I've vaped tasted like soap. I love orange slices, orange kool-aid, I'd maybe try creme cicle if it wasn't over powering. I just don't know where to find any. Any suggestions?
TPA's Orange cream isn't overpowering at all, but the orange is definitely there. I was actually looking to add some extra orange because of how much I love orange. If what you want is something not overpowering, it's not bad at all, even mixed with some extra cream flavors.
Which ones have you tried? That makes it easier to suggest something, like, "If you didn't enjoy X, you probably won't like Y either, but Z vapes very differently, so you might want to check out Z."
Just some cheap in store stuff, I haven't made my own but I'm thinking about trying
FW Blood Orange, is amazing if anyone was to try an orange flavour. Just remember to shake it like Swifty before you use it!
I have Orange (FA), Sweet Tangerine (CAP), and Orange Cream (TPA). I've only used the orange cream so far which is nice but needs extra fruit or extra cream added to it, the other two are still in shipping, so I'll try the orange cream with some extra orange once I receive them. Hoping to eventually find some good orange recipes because it is by far my favorite fruit/candy/sweet flavor in terms of food or drinks.
Detox by /u/philosaphucker isn't an orange recipe, but it's a delicious use of TFA Orange Cream after a healthy steep. In a Godda Da Vida by /u/mlnikon also isn't an orange or tangerine recipe really, but it's probably the best use of CAP Sweet Tangerine that ever was or will be.
Loveless Orange Milk uses oranges you don't have, but it looks like a good orange recipe you might want to try. /u/matthewkocanda has several orange recipes you might want to take a look at, actually. And then there's Vurve's famous Dreamsicile. Or if you're into tropical cocktail vapes, Jamican Me Cray Cray.
If you post your all your flavors in the weekly what can I make thread, you might get a suggestion or two for a good orange vape that uses only what you already have.
I have:
(WF) Orange Juice (FA) Orange (FA) Royal Orange
Was on a quest to make an orange juice, or orange juice grenadine mocktail, but would be happy with orange drink
Have you tried the WF OJ just all by itself at around 4%? Or Royal Orange 2%? Or mixing them together at about 3% WF OJ + 1.5% FA Royal?
I’ve only single tested the wf Orange Juice, which I was quite impressed with, but felt it was lacking. So my natural next step was to randomly throw all the oranges together, and sure enough, it sucked, as I think FA orange threw it off. I will try doing the wf oj and royal orange, as per your suggestion.
Thank you very much!!!
The few WF I have all have that artificial sweetener aftertaste, like diet coke does. Is their OJ also like that?
I mixed Chrisdvr1's orange vanilla sherbet and damn is it tasty. But its also really harsh. The orange seems too strong. Know how I can mellow it out? Perhaps subbing cap vbic with tpa vbic since I heard tpa is richer than cap version?
I've never tried FW Orange Dream bar but that has to be where the harshness is coming from, unless you're sensitive to Apricot. Have you had other recipes with TFA Apricot up that high and no problems with it?
No, this is my first mix with both fw orange dream bar and apricot. I wonder if I can lower its percentage and up the other milky creamy aspect of the recipe to even things out hehe
I wish I had more to add, but I got both MF Orange and MF Mandarin a while back, but haven't had a chance to make up on recipes. I will say that they're both very realistic, very strong, and heavy on the citric acid. I'd use both at 1% or less.
Thank you. We need more MF info for those who want to take a deep dive into finding just the right flavor.
I've been kind of tossing them in to orders from ECX. From what I can see I think ECX is phasing them out, though, since I've noticed a lot of flavors disappear. Everything I've tried has been really realistic, but it's hard to justify those prices. They also tend to have a lot of throat hit.
I have two that I haven’t used much yet. Did single flavor tests of FW Tangerine at 4% and FA Orange at 3% and liked them both, although FA seemed very one-dimensional to me.
However, both of them seemed to fade out quickly for me. With a few days steep they tasted good but roughly 8-10 days out both seemed rather weak. Has anyone else experienced that? Is it common for orange flavors to fade?
I did like the weird combo I tossed together of 2.5% FLV Native and 3% FA Orange (called it Hazy Sunrise) and oddly enough, the orange seemed to stick around better when mixed. Probably odd to put orange in a tobacco but I dig fruity tobaccos.
As odd as this may sounds for orange juices I normally use a combo of FW Blood Orange, RFSC mango and/or pineapple, and depending what kind of juice CAP sweet tangerine or CAP juicy orange or even TFA Orange Cream. A combo of those flavors normally gets rid of the harshness of normal orange flavors for me at least.
> RFSC mango
You normally taste peach and pinesol in orange juice? How sad.
With a low percentage around 1- 1.5 % and with the other flavors I don't get any of those off tastes that others do with RFSC mango
I've been looking for an Orbital decay clone (discontinued by moon mountain vapor).
It has orange, honey & tangerine - any suggestions on percentages?
Thanks!
Before even thinking about percentages, you’d have to figure out which orange and tangerine flavors are in there.
No idea - they stopped making it & I haven't had it in years (I just remember it was really good)
the flavors I have available are :
Capella - Sweet tangerine
Flavorah Orange citrus
& FA honey
Heres a little chocolate orange donut recipe I've been working on.
http://e-liquid-recipes.com/recipe/2235940/Chocolate+orange+donut
Biscuit (INAWERA) 1% Chocolate Glazed Doughnut (CAP) 7% Juicy Orange (CAP) 3% Pound Cake (Flavorah) 1% Royal Orange Juice (FA) 3.5% Super Sweet (CAP) 0.6% Sweet Tangerine (CAP) 2%
I love the chocolate orange combo, they go so well together.
I don't seem to have any trouble with throat hit with cap juicy orange. No more than any other citrus flavour. It's one of the main flavours I have used in my harambae clone. Check it out if you like an orange / citrus vape
https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/79156#remixmonth_twelve_monkeys_harambae_by_dougiedoug
|Flavor Facts - Orange| |-------| |FOTW - Orange 1| |Noted ep39 - Orange| |notes from Noted ep39| |Orange recpies on ATF| |Orange recpies on ELR|
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| Flavor | Comapny | Review | ATF | ELR | |---|---|---|---|---| |Juicy Orange|Capella|by ConcreteRiver| on ATF| on ELR| |Orange Creamsicle|Capella| - - - | on ATF| on ELR| |Orange Mango|Capella| - - - | on ATF| on ELR| |Sweet Tangerine|Capella|by TexasHex| on ATF| on ELR| |Sweet Orange|Flavor Express|by ConcreteRiver| on ATF| on ELR| |Blood Orange|Flavor West|by TexasHex| on ATF| on ELR| |Orange|Flavor West| - - - | on ATF| on ELR| |Orange Dream Bar|Flavor West| - - - | on ATF| on ELR| |Tangerine|Flavor West|by ConcreteRiver| on ATF| on ELR| |Blood Orange|Flavorah| - - - | on ATF| on ELR| |Orange Citrus|Flavorah|by ConcreteRiver| on ATF| on ELR| |Tangerine|Flavorah| - - - | on ATF| on ELR| |Orange|Flavormonks|by Lampburglar| on ATF| on ELR| |Bergamot|FlavourArt|by ConcreteRiver| on ATF| on ELR| |Blood Orange|FlavourArt|by ConcreteRiver| on ATF| on ELR| |Orange|FlavourArt| - - - | on ATF| on ELR| |Royal Orange Juice|FlavourArt|by ConcreteRiver| on ATF| on ELR| |Tanger (Mandarin)|FlavourArt| - - - | on ATF| on ELR| |Green Orange|Hangsen|by ConcreteRiver| on ATF| on ELR| |Bergamot|Inawera| - - - | on ATF| on ELR| |Orange|Inawera| - - - | on ATF| on ELR| |Shisha Orange|Inawera|by ID10-T| on ATF| on ELR| |Orange Cream|LorAnn| - - - | on ATF| on ELR| |Orange|Medicine Flower| - - - | on ATF| on ELR| |Blood Orange|One on One| - - - | on ATF| on ELR| |Orange Juice|One on One| - - - | on ATF| on ELR|
| Flavor | Comapny | Review | ATF | ELR | |---|---|---|---|---| |Cranberry Orange|Purilum|by mysticrosell| on ATF| on ELR| |Sour Cherries and Oranges|Purilum|by mysticrosell| on ATF| on ELR| |Blood Orange|Real Flavors| - - - | on ATF| on ELR| |Orange|Real Flavors| - - - | on ATF| on ELR| |Orange Cream|Real Flavors|by mysticrosell| on ATF| on ELR| |Sparkling Orange|Reka|by ConcreteRiver| - - - | on ELR| |Orange Cream|The Flavor Apprentice|by Chrisdvr1| on ATF| on ELR| |Orange Cream Bar|The Flavor Apprentice| - - - | on ATF| on ELR| |Orange Mandarin|The Flavor Apprentice| - - - | on ATF| on ELR| |Blood Orange Champagne|Vape Train|by ConcreteRiver| on ATF| on ELR| |Orange Juice|Vape Train|by ConcreteRiver| on ATF| on ELR| |Orange Tang|Vape Train| - - - | on ATF| on ELR| |Orange Juice|Wonder Flavors| - - - | on ATF| on ELR|
UK people (and maybe Americans but I doubt you have it there) how can I recreate the flavour of Ribena? here’s what ribena is
Is there any orange in any of those Ribena flavors? Your question might be off topic...
Ribena is more a black currant based flavor, as far as I remember...
Good luck finding a Blackcurrant that'll work for a Ribena. I've read lots of reviews on VV Blackcurrant which should get you close or even DH Blackcurrant Candy might work. For starters stay well away from INW Blackcurrant for this profile or for any Blackcurrant flavour that we relate Blackcurrant too here in the UK because it's just not even close. The Orange, Blueberry and Strawberry components I can't advise on at all one way or the other apart from FA Bilberry (for the blueberry) definitely won't work.