None really. I came to DIY at almost the same time that I came to vaping so I never tried any premium juices (had a few crappy one fruit flavours for my MTL at first) and decided that not DIYing is a mug's game.

My DIY journey started because my state (WV) thought it would be cute to add a sin tax of 7.5% per ml. They have received zero pennies from me since then. But what inspired me was the supposed "Cuttwood Leak". My brother is a fan of Unicorn Milk, so after a two week steep I brought him a bottle. First words outta' his mouth were "You made this in your fucking living room?". I learned two things that day. One is, that nigga gave himself the nickname "The Sauce Boss". To date, he doesn't need both hands to count his good recipes. And two, it's a level playing field. The skies the limit in DIY ejuice creation.

Did I mention fuck WV and Cuttwood?🤣🤣🤣🤣

No specific recipe sold me on doing DIY. I was sold after absorbing as much of this subreddit as a I could but before my first supplies had even arrived.

But there was a recipe I tried fairly early on that stands out. It was one of the first times I mixed someone else's recipe after many lackuster attempts to create my own recipes. It showed me what DIY is capable of and what standard of quality I wanted to attempt to reach and hold myself to, Strawberry Shortcake Bar. I said to myself, "Self, if this NotCharlesManson character can do this, you can, too." It was a great inspiration and encouragement to me.

SC Honey Flue Cured and SC Blended. Those were the two flavors that kept me from throwing in the towel after going through some Seedman, CAP, and TFA tobaccos that all sucked pretty hard.

The cost savings sold me, not one specific recipe. I am perfectly fine vaping my shit mixes with the amount of money i saved

Funny but I went all in after sampling some vapes from u/hashslinginslashur. I tried a graprefuit cream of his and remember standing on the streets of brooklyn at night thinking: "This is awesome" AND "Someone made this." After that I tried one of his tobaccos and figured I'd double down on tobaccos. I liked them the most at that point, I figured that I could get one of the better flavors and just straight vape it until I learned to blend them. I was actually smart enough to ask for advice and buy for recipes in addition to the recommendations I got from u/chemicalburnvictim and others.

So, i guess, for me it would be trying hash's grapefruit and cream and cbv’s Brigade.

Unicorn Milk, but starting out, I had no recipe and no idea what I wanted to make. What I did have was an intense desire to liberate myself from commercial juice, and a lot of information gained from the VU DIY forum and YouTube about how to do it. So I took the plunge, bought Liquid Barn's starter kit, and went from there. My first recipes were just single flavor experiments using the stuff in the kit. They worked well enough to keep me forging on, but I didn't like all the syringes and mixing vessels involved in mixing by volume, so my next buy was an LB-501 from Amazon. From there I stumbled upon a Unicorn Milk clone (I was spending a lot of money on it pre-mixed at the time) and so bought what I needed from BCV to make it. Apparently it was a spot-on recipe, I was tickled pink it worked so well. That little experiment convinced me that DIY was worth investing in, so down the rabbit hole I went with a bunch of orders to BCV and NicRiv.

The FDA scare made me DIY...But My first recipe I used was Fizzmustard nanacream.

No specific recipe for me, just two years free of smokes and realizing that half the juice out their is hyped up, over priced, sucralose and most of it doesn't even taste that great. If that stuff could sell at that price point, and it's this cheap to make it myself, might as well start.

An old clone of a juice called deadly sin I found and messed around with until I got it like I wanted it. Was better than the original to me.

Deadly Sin (kriga v2) 
5.00%  Butterscotch (FW)
4.00% Cinnamon Danish Swirl (CAP)
1.00% Joy (FA)
5.00%  RY4 Double (TPA)
2.00%  Vanilla Custard v1 (CAP)

Sudden Deadly Sin (Monotom)
2.00% Butterscotch (FA)
4.00% Cinnamon Danish Swirl (CAP)
1.00% Joy (FA)
5.00% RY4 Double (TPA)
2.00% Vanilla Swirl (TPA)

Cereal killa clone by Jackster is what got me serious in diy. That stuff is so good!

Placid

http://e-liquid-recipes.com/recipe/241794/Placid%20clone%20v7

Clone of the Vapor Chef honey pearry

Im surprised no one said Grack Juice yet. It's seriously one of the best DIY recipes out there and I always have 100 ml around

For me it was Dazcole's Fantastic. I'm a sucker for all things citrus and most of the commercial ones I've tried have been underwhelming. I still mix up a 60ml of Fantastic every few months.

Sweet Strawberry Cream by CheebaSteeba.

For me, it was when I made my first flavor that was enjoyable to vape. It started off as just a hobby. I was working in one of the first brick and mortar stores in my state and I wanted to be as knowledgeable as possible. I kind of stumbled into a really vapeable recipe and was instantly hooked. Now it's my full time job and I love it.

Maha Ras:

TFA Coconut Extra - 5.5%
TFA Musk Candy - 4%
TFA Mary Jane - 2%
CAP Sweet Strawberry - 3%
CAP Raspberry - 3%

If I had to pick, the Unicorn Milk "clone" was good inspiration.

But ultimately no specific recipes did it for me, paying for juice when I first switched to vaping rubbed me the wrong way. I am a hobbiest by nature and love tinkering.

I did single-flavor DIY for years before I started actually mixing recipes. I had, through trial and error, found a few flavors that I liked alone - CAP VC v1, LA Butter Rum, and LA Creme de Menthe. I vaped those in rotation for 2-3 years.

Then I saw a youtube video where someone was vaping "Bronuts", which led me to Wayne's site. I bought the flavors I needed to make Bronuts and Wayne's Golden Ticket clone (version 2 or 3, maybe? the one with TFA Double Chocolate Clear in it). He also had an article with the best recipes of the year (2015 or 2016, maybe?), which included Pebbles (Skiddlz) and Sugar Cookies and Cream (Chrisdvr), so I ordered those ingredients soon after. After that I was hooked.

Strawberries man, strawberries.

I started mixing a few years ago, making small lemonades, mountain dews, and fruit bases, like this: http://tjek.nu/r/3Mw (I've seen found a more inticing recipe)

It wasn't until I bought this juice when I realized how expensive juice was and that I could actually pursue the cloning of juices.

White Lotus- Way of the Dragon- White lotus is the perfect blend of mature, exotic fruit and cream flavorings. Our adult costumers absolutely love this bright, succulent e-liquid! Papaya, Nectarine and Apricot.

I didn't clone it myself but I was hot on the heels of the member that did, and every since then, my while buffalo sought and captured, I started researching clone processes and learning by watching others, and hints/tips/tricks.

I think I was dedicated to mixing for about a year or so before White Lotus had finally be captured.

http://tjek.nu/r/4tJL... this recipe has its secret ingredient in the notes, but..with Grainger and Biosphere, they found it, I was just along for the ride. It was biscotti cookie (FA) was the final touch.

I make this a few times a year, having since satisfied my thirst for the White Lotus, but like with finding any treasure, the mystery behind it revealed, I got complacent with the juice, I moved on to pursuing other goals and helping others try to find there white buffalo...or their White Lotus.

That was, what feels like forever ago today.

Pepperidge Farm members

rocking back on forth in the wood chair on the porch

Botboys - Ba'nana cream I originally tried his juice line when GGG was still active. I loved it so much I wanted to make a huge bottle, The recipe I used was spot on to the bottle I bought. It was a huge win for me

Mustard Milk! First ever diy juice and immediately knew i made the right choice

The Nanner/Polar bear clone by u/project_twenty5oh1. I’ve had that mix in my daily rotation for years at this point. Other things come and go. That mix stays.

Grack has had staying power too.

Rhodonite by Enya captured me. Even after buying "premium" nothing came close to the layers rhodonite had

There wasn't a specific recipe it was the new TPD regs in Europe. I started vaping in 2013 and then went back to cigs Dec. '16. Came back to vaping this year and discovered that the only way to go was DIY because of the prices and regs. Since then have been doing my own takes on existing recipes and haven't had any unvapeable yet!! The biggest kick is the ability to tweak to your exact taste and very much still learning flavours 50 and counting :))

My first order list of recipes was pretty meh. The second list introduced me to dazcole's lemon meringue pie and it sold me on the possibilities of diy. So flavorful, so nuanced, and so good. To date it remains one of my favorite recipes.

100 ml 70/30, no flavoring, 6 mg nic for < $3, that's what sold me. ;)

Ironically it was a clone of a premium I already loved. I found a recipe for One Hit Wonder's "Rocket Man", did the math and figured I could make many hundreds of mL for less than the cost of two of their bottles so I did that instead. Never really looked back.

Strawberry orange banana, best smoothie flavor I've ever had

Back when DIY classifieds were a thing, I asked the biggest juice maker to make a pink bubblegum with "sugar lips". Sure enough it was great and killed the lore of overpriced "premium juice" for me

HIC's strawberry milk. I doubled the percentages and added 3% WS23 (@ 30%). This is my ADV, it's just like vaping strawberry nesquik with and icy kick.

None. The B&M I started buying juice from was all over the place with flavor strength and nicotine, like expecting 6mg and getting 18mg, so I went all in to at least have consistency regardless to quality. I stuck with single flavor recipes for around 2 years, slowly reducing % to maximize cotton life and minimize chemicals. Just recently got into ATF and getting creative, but I never go over 7% total flavors

Pure vg and nic

I was a victim of circumstance. Where I'm from nic is illegal to be sold in juice out of a B&M. But one place I knew did sell it and I heard of one more other place. The place I got mine from got busted so I had no more juice. A months worth of reading this sub later I placed my first order

70% VG

+30% PG

-(Shipping+marketing+manufacturing)

= $$$$

I found a recipe for a pretty decent Space Jam clone about 5 years ago. My mind was blown

Ella’s shortbread biscuit, geography, Mother of god milk and strawberry bliss were the first few recipes that gave me a lot of inspiration in the beginning. Since then I’ve found so many more and they keep getting better and helping me on my own journey of creation. When I recently mixed Apple buttah I felt like I was sold all over again though.

It was the cheap prices that drew me in. I can make over 100ml of juice for way less than what any proper juice company offers.

The thing that got me into experimenting with flavors (vs just buying the stuff, adding 1 flavor and calling it good) is strawberry banana. Very simple 50/50 strawberry, and banana. 15% flavor in total. 70/30 vg/pg.

One of my first creations was an attempt to clone a local vape shop's Strapple Melon juice. I hadn't tried it recently enough to actually know how close I got but it tasted damn good and not too far from what I remembered of the original. Also a really simple lemon cookie (just TPA Bavarian Cream, FA Lemon Sicily and CAP Sugar Cookie) that was another one of the first batch of liquids I made, people were constantly stopping to ask what flavor I had because it smelled so good when I vaped it. Definitely gave me a confidence boost to tell people it was my own recipe! Now I'm thinking I should go get out my old notebook and whip those up...

B&M sold me a 6 month old bottle of house juice that was my favorite first time around...not so much at 6 months .. for $22 (30ml) yet .. I was done ..

B&M sold me a 6 month old bottle of house juice that was my favorite first time around...not so much at 6 months .. for $22 (30ml) yet .. I was done ..

B&M sold me a 6 month old bottle of house juice that was my favorite first time around...not so much at 6 months .. for $22 (30ml) yet .. I was done ..

B&M sold me a 6 month old bottle of house juice that was my favorite first time around...not so much at 6 months .. for $22 (30ml) yet .. I was done ..

B&M sold me a 6 month old bottle of house juice that was my favorite first time around...not so much at 6 months .. for $22 (30ml) yet .. I was done ..

I'm gonna be completely honest, I don't think there's any recipe I've found on ELR that actually made me think "wow, this is so much better than premium ejuice". Actually, every single one of them tasted very weak/poor.

But it was hella cheaper, and one-shots are a thing. Still, back then I was really obsessed with finding at least one recipe that'll blow my socks off, so I built a huge flavor stash. In less than a month I dropped like $200 - $300 on TPA, CAP & FA concentrates. There were a few recipes that were decent/meh, but still, nothing to phone home about.

So I was just about ready to give up, when I started mixing stuff on my own. I stopped trying to copy others' recipes and just went "fuck it, I either throw them away or mix them up my way". And that's when I actually started to find some pretty damn good combinations. Sure, a few failures as well, but there were some really damn awesome mixes (for me, at least, and that's what really mattered) that finally made me go "hell yeah, it was worth it", especially since I haven't found any commercial ejuice to match that flavour profile yet.

A friend even took some to a local B&M and told me they liked it, which made me consider starting a local ejuice brand, but I got pretty discouraged because I have no idea about the degree of logistics & legal work behind it.

Long story, sorry about that.

I'm gonna be completely honest, I don't think there's any recipe I've found on ELR that actually made me think "wow, this is so much better than premium ejuice". Actually, every single one of them tasted very weak/poor.

But it was hella cheaper, and one-shots are a thing. Still, back then I was really obsessed with finding at least one recipe that'll blow my socks off, so I built a huge flavor stash. In less than a month I dropped like $200 - $300 on TPA, CAP & FA concentrates. There were a few recipes that were decent/meh, but still, nothing to phone home about.

So I was just about ready to give up, when I started mixing stuff on my own. I stopped trying to copy others' recipes and just went "fuck it, I either throw them away or mix them up my way". And that's when I actually started to find some pretty damn good combinations. Sure, a few failures as well, but there were some really damn awesome mixes (for me, at least, and that's what really mattered) that finally made me go "hell yeah, it was worth it", especially since I haven't found any commercial ejuice to match that flavour profile yet.

A friend even took some to a local B&M and told me they liked it, which made me consider starting a local ejuice brand, but I got pretty discouraged because I have no idea about the degree of logistics & legal work behind it.

Long story, sorry about that.

I'm gonna be completely honest, I don't think there's any recipe I've found on ELR that actually made me think "wow, this is so much better than premium ejuice". Actually, every single one of them tasted very weak/poor.

But it was hella cheaper, and one-shots are a thing. Still, back then I was really obsessed with finding at least one recipe that'll blow my socks off, so I built a huge flavor stash. In less than a month I dropped like $200 - $300 on TPA, CAP & FA concentrates. There were a few recipes that were decent/meh, but still, nothing to phone home about.

So I was just about ready to give up, when I started mixing stuff on my own. I stopped trying to copy others' recipes and just went "fuck it, I either throw them away or mix them up my way". And that's when I actually started to find some pretty damn good combinations. Sure, a few failures as well, but there were some really damn awesome mixes (for me, at least, and that's what really mattered) that finally made me go "hell yeah, it was worth it", especially since I haven't found any commercial ejuice to match that flavour profile yet.

A friend even took some to a local B&M and told me they liked it, which made me consider starting a local ejuice brand, but I got pretty discouraged because I have no idea about the degree of logistics & legal work behind it.

Long story, sorry about that.

I started doing diy once I realised I can make juice that's damn near 100% VG without sacrificing flavor/nicotine. And also the fact if I bought the flavors and nicotine if I ever ran out of juice I could just go to the local Wal-Mart and pick up more VG rather than waiting 5-7 days for an online juice order or getting raped at a local vape shop.

Havnt had any failures yet my favorite mixtures so far has been a tobacco custard, blueberry cigar, and straight caramel. Im looking into making more intricate flavors soon tho like cream soda, orange cream, dragonfruit custard, etc.

Seduce Juice Snake Oil clone. It wasn't quiiiite 100%, but a hell of a lot cheaper.

On my first day as a vaper I bought a 30ml bottle of Spacejam Pluto. It was gone two days later and that was a bit of a shock after hearing so many times that vaping is much cheaper than smoking.

I have a habit of using google as a wishing well (you'd be surprised to find out how many wishes it grants if youŕe not being wildly unrealistic). I tried "make spacejam pluto at home"or whatever and found a recipe that was incredibly simple and agreed upon that it was the stuff.

It took a lot more time to actually make that specific recipe but it did sell me on DIY, First recipe I really binged on was Nana Cream, and that seems a common thing after just having kicked the ciggies.

God's Milk is the only true answer.

Best e juice Clone Recipes

Mustard Milk

It’s one of the simplest two-part e-juice clone recipes even a beginner can nail. Begin with a PG/VG/Nic base, add 6% of TPA Strawberry and 8% of TPA Vanilla bean ice cream. Next, leave the liquid to steep for several days (up to one week).

Vulture Punch Clone

Begin with a PG/VG/Nic base, add 0.5% TPA Brown Sugar, 0.5% Cotton candy, 1% Madagascar (Vanilla Classic) (FA), 1% Strawberry Sweet (TPA), 1% Strawberry (Ripe) (TPA), 8% Vanilla Custard v1 (CAP), 8% Kiwi Strawberry (Stevia) (CAP).

Mother’s Milk Clone

This is a more complex recipe for adventurous vapers. Begin with a PG/VG/Nic base, add 0.5% Graham Cracker (Clear) (TPA), 0.5% Marshmallow (TPA), 1% Caramel Candy (TPA), 2% Vanilla Custard (TPA), 3% Bavarian Cream (TPA), 3% Cinnamon Danish (TPA), 3% French Vanilla Deluxe (TPA), 3% Sweet Cream (TPA), 3% Vanilla Bean Ice Cream (TPA), 5% Strawberry (Ripe) (TPA), and 6%Cheesecake New York Style (LA).

Mainly the price point and the realization that businesses are all about profit and rarely source the best ingredients.

It also ended up being an odd hybrid combining my chef talents and chemistry background. Who knew!

1st amazing recipe was Black Forest, but it's so thick and rich that it wasn't usable as an ADV

2nd was:

Grape Escape

• TFA Grape Juice 7%
• TFA Dragonfruit 2%
• TFA Apple 2%
• TFA Grape Soda 1%

Soda is nasty perfumy unless you bulk steep that shit heavily. Likely optional.

Another vote for Grack Juice... first recipe I tried that was just uniquely different from all of the commercial juices that I had tried before. It led me to searching out other unique recipes out there, which is a lot of the fun in DIY for me.