Hi guys!
I've been DIYing for a couple of years now and I just can't get enough of vaping :P
So I started out with TFA flavours. They were okayish. Had to use a lot of flavouring and it wasn't really cost effective.
Then I tried out FlavorWest which was a complete fucking disaster. Don't know what was wrong with their juices but they used to turn all brown in the tank while vaping and everytime the juice in the tank finished, the coils used to gunk up and I had to change the cotton. Imagine changing the cotton everytime your juice finishes. Yes, been there done that. I would absolutely advise you to stay away from FW.
After that I tried Inawera and it was AMAZING! I ordered around 35 flavours and they lasted me almost 2 years now.
So now my DIY liquids are on the verge of finishing and I've been considering buying FA flavours this time. I looked around for a list of must try FA flavors but couldn't get a good enough list.
So fellow Redditors, please help me out by suggesting the best/must-have/must-try FA flavor concentrates you know of or have tried yourself!
I prefer fruity/dessert/coffee flavors but if you know of some exceptional flavors, drop them in the comments! :)
Peace and good vibes :)
Edit: Thank you so much guys for your valuable suggestions! I've added almost all the flavours you guys suggested into my cart! Now have to sit down and do some 'calculations' and planning. Will be placing the order in a couple of hours! Cheers!
Fruit: Fuji, forest mix, kiwi, apricot, pear, lemon Sicily, lime Tahiti cold press, citrus mix, juicy strawberry, white peach, strawberry, watermelon, coconut
Creams: Vienna cream, Catalan cream, cream fresh
Other: zeppola, joy, torrone, almond, meringue, marshmallow, madagascar, bergamot, apple pie
AVOID FA PINEAPPLE
Take a look at HIC’s Flavour Art notes: https://gumroad.com/l/GwMpo#
There are alot of fa mixes on vapingunderground.
I actually stumbled across this post buried in the wiki somewhere last week. It's a real gold mine and there's a lot of FA recipes linked down in the comments as well. Scanning through some of the links it made me wonder how I've never tried FA Cocoa and why I don't use FA Custard more often.
Are there people here that frequent vaping underground? I was curious as to what others' opinions were on the site and its functionality. It feels a bit cluttered and hard to navigate but maybe I just need to get used to it? I've been casually sniffing around for forums that were geared more towards advanced mixing.
Hello brother, long term lurker, first time dropping a post here. I too mainly use FA. The reason being that i live in a third world country in Asia...getting hold of concentrates is hard and extremely expensive comparative to living costs here. The reason i use FA is due to how much further they go, due to their high concentration.
As for exceptional ones...heres my list.
For fruits, FA Fuji is a great apple, yet so much more. Sits alone as a great apple, used in the sub 1% range can brighten and 'pop' any other fruits, be it berry or others. Versatile and has many uses.
Dessert - FA Meringue is a must have, again, so versatile, can act as a sweetener depending on %, in addition and imo in a unique aspect can add a malty note to creams to create diary..its something you can use in a tonne of mixes and situations, always at a low %.
FA Booster (tiramisu) has a dark espresso coffee note, for me a fantastic stand alone, or thrown together with some creams, creates a starbucks like thing, but IMO a great coffee concentrate. Again, as is usually the case with FA, this one is best used in the 0.2-1% range.
FA Vienna cream / Cream Fresh - I feel that folk who can actually mix well - as opposed to myself :P may disagree here, but for me i love these two concentrates, but i've never managed to get them to work alone without some TFA / CAP VBIC / Bavarian love. - However if used as additives, at 0.5% they can really alter and enhance the nature of the most commonly used CAP / TFA Creams. - On this last part, if someone is reading this who is a competent mixer and I'm mistaken here, please correct me and educate me, help a brother out!
On top of this, I recommend FA Up for another good coffee flavor.
FA Custard/Custard Pi/Custard Premium are also good ones to have to help bring some custard creaminess with a dash of citrus. FA Catalan Cream also is in a similar realm.
FA Apricot is a fantastic addition for fruits, pairs excellently with peach or any other stone fruits as well as tobaccos!
FA juicy strawberry is a must have if you are a strawberry lover. Its the king of the hill IMO currently.
FA Apple Pie pairs great with fuji and more, it brings a great crusty pie flavor but needs a bit of an extra boost to the apple.
There's lots that are useful and some that are sort of weird to work with but FA have rarely disappointed me. Even concentrates I thought were aweful eventually find some use, as I think a lot of their older stuff was really strong and had to be used <1% or even dilluted.
Be sure to check out the FA section in the Flavor Review wiki
"So now my DIY liquids are on the verge of finishing and I've been considering buying FA flavours this time."
From what you have written, it sounds like you are ordering a bunch of flavors from one manufacturer, and when you run out of everything, you switch to a different manufacturer.
If this is the case, then why? Every manufacturer has some flavors which are amazing, some which are merely vapable, and some which are horrid.
You shouldn't worry about who makes the flavor, only with how well it works for you. If you prefer manufacturer A's version of X, but manufacturer B's version of Y, then buy those instead of trying to find the "perfect" manufacturer. Because there is no perfect manufacturer.
Yes man, I switch manufacturers from time to time. I've never been keen on ordering from aggregator websites like BCV etc. I place my order from one vendor only, in this case its going to be FA because shipping costs also add up to the final cost and I like spreading out the costs over a large number of liquids and that can only be possible if I order from a single manufacturer.
Sometime a year or so ago I tried ordering from some aggregator website but the prices weren't good enough, they were charging a bomb on shipping, out of stock liquids and so on.
I agree with you on what you said about buying the best flavours from different vendors but it's not a cost effective approach.
FA Fuji
FA Marzipan (and this goes well with FA Bergamot)
FA Polar Blast
FA Lime tahity (both)
FA Lemon Sicily (if you have INW Lemon Mix this isn't needed.)
FA Bilberry (I really need to test this with inw grapes to see 8f I can change it from 'purple' to 'grape')
FA Whisky
FA Fresh Cream (good cream without vanilla off-taste)
FA Espresso (use low, but a proper coffee is black - with whisky - and this does that -although sadly without the whisky)
The oak flavors, and black fire... all useful.
Also, the have a whole line of flavors FANA refuses to sell because of bad science, that includes things like FA Milk... you have to order from the UK or Italy to get them.
On top of the already-mentioned Fuji, Meringue, Vienna Cream, Fresh Cream, Pear, Custard, Apple Pie:
- FA Bilberry (used in the blueberry holy trinity)
- FA Apricot (can be used as a 'juicer' instead of, or in addition to, INW Cactus and FA Pear)
- FA Almond (nutty and unique)
- FA Blackcurrant
- FA Catalan Cream
- FA Passionfruit
- FA Cookie (FA Cookie is something you can't live without)
- FA Forrest Mix
- FA Kiwi
- FA Liquid Amber
- FA Orange (handy for people who get dishwashing detergent out of FW Blood Orange / CAP Sweet Tangerine)
EDIT: I found out yesterday that a few new FA flavours have just hit Australia - FA New York Cheesecake, FA Bavarian Cream, FA Chocolate Glazed Donut. Will be having a lash at these on next order.
Lemon Sicily is the best tasting lemon flavor, period. I consider it essential.
Fresh Cream is a smooth, creamy, yet not heavy. Very important to note that it is NOT sweet. It literally adds a layer of freshly whipped, completely unsweetened heavy cream.
Combine the Fresh Cream with Custard, which is somewhat sweet and adds syrupy tones.
Cookie is a wonderful plain golden cookie base with no chocolate chips.
Lime Cold Press is zesty and acidic. Should be used sparing and with care. Essential for a full tasting citrus vape.
Vienna Cream is sweet and versatile enough to add dimension to lots of different recipes. Difficult to describe, perhaps someone else here can do a better job.
FA also has tons of great tobacco flavors.
Also of note is that FA flavors are less sweet than most other manufacturers. If you like a sweeter vape, you might like a bit of sweetener added to your ejuice.
FA do lots of flavors well and I haven't outright hated any of them. They're also more concentrated than say, TFA or Capella, for the most part.
FA makes the best citrus flavors in general. Enjoy!