Got The Duke with me today because it’s that time of the year again. Only regret is I waited longer than I should have to mix it up, so it’s only been steeping 5 days. Much better after a month. Still good though.

I’m afraid I’ve got myself in to another Boba’s Bounty clone attempt. Got 5 of the Baker Flavors tobaccos in, and Klondike tastes like it may be the missing link in a better Boba’s Bounty clone. After I released the other one I did I swore I’d never go back. And now I’m 4 versions in to this new one. Much closer though. So that’s fun.

Been testing my grape and pink guava tobacco. Got a 30 ml mixed of that to do a two week steep and see if I make it through the whole bottle without wanting to tweak it.

The other Baker Flavors tobaccos have all had an initial S&V test done, so those are waiting for a one week test. Maybe 3/5 won’t be too bad. There’s one more I need to order.

Kind of dreading filtering all the NETs I started a few months ago. Gonna be a busy Christmas break. Wish I could have had the whole week off next week, but I have to work Wed, Thurs, Fri. So that kinda sucks.

Spent way too much time organizing the year in recipes post and organizing for buying flavors so i mixed up u/eyemakepizza's Summer Drink in a pinch yesterday morning. I had to sub Honeydew II and I mixed it in a tester that was already with Lime Tahiti at 2%. So it was a bit limier than probably intended. Ripped through 10ml mtl by evening! This will get re-mixed and played with. The peach plays nice with these flavors and sometimes pokes its head, sometimes lets the little kids shine. Real nice one with room to customize.

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Also, some random tests that were interesting:

flv acai 2 / fa cocoa 1 / fa blackcurrant 2 / cap harvest berry 3 & sweetener (i did 0.7 fw) - took a few days to steep but I vaped through it daily anyway. probably needed a week. was like a dark musky berry with rich chocolate undertones. was interesting.

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eyeballed some flv milk and honey and holy holy vanilla into a half finished squonk bottle that had some light fruit with an obscene amount of sugardaddy sweetener and a hint of polar blast in it and topped it off with base. I thought it'd be gross but it's been strangely pleasant. Wish I had taken notes but the mystery has been somewhat fun. it's mostly like candied molasses on top of some sweet dark berry, most likely black currant since it's still on my desk.

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lastly, hit my flv creme de menthe tester and holy smokes this is Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies to me. It's a really strong flavor and all the cookie supports tasted good enough so I decided to take this on as a challenge to myself to learn how to balance flavor percentages and try different substitutions for a simplicity's sake. rather than looking extensively for what other people have done before, i'm just using what i have and trying things out and seeing what i enjoy.

I tried a bunch of weird berries (WF Saskatoon Berry will now forever be WF Butthole Berry in my mind and TFA Berry Mix tastes like it has cold sore medicine in it) and berry blends (WF Bumbleberry is actually what I'm vaping right this moment and I love it, but the one I was most impressed with was FW Wild Berry Cobbler - tester of that is all gone). About to rewick and crack open a bottle of Alfred's Pudding.

Really hooked on ELR's Lemon Tart and it's always in one of my mods, dedicated to this flavor only.. And also my banana cream. Kinda a remix of various recipes I've seen... 😊

u/xGRANITEx told me I was supposed to wait two full weeks to try out his Blueberry Waffles, but when I took it out and gave it a sniff today I knew it was time. It uses the holiest of trinities for the blueberry part, which is perfect for providing the blueberry syrup with just a hint of the ripe peel quality on the back end to let you know it was made with real blueberries. The waffle is a trio of LB Belgian Waffle, JF Yellow Cake, and INW Waffle. It's an awesome combination of waffle dough, sweet, cake-like texture, and the "fresh from a waffle iron" accent provided by INW Waffle. FA Maple Syrup is used to add a maple syrup drizzle over the whole vape, and it shows up just enough to be present without bullying any of the other wonderful components. Finally, TPA Butter is there to make the experience incredibly rich without any artificial movie theater butter showing up. If you have the old INW Waffle sitting around somewhere, do yourself a favor and give this a shot.

Best version of this profile I've made.

2.5% rf watermelon

1% Flv Grape

1% Fa pear

.5% ws23 10%

Best candy watermelon type juice I've had. I'm heavy into simple recipes that taste great right now and this is close to perfect for me.

Rf watermelon seems to be slept on but its definitely become my favorite watermelon.

This Butterfly Pie

A creamy butterscotch pie with hints of coconut and an almond cookie crust. This started as just a way to play around with some Wonder Flavours Super Concentrates, as I hadn't really used them in my own recipes. After about a week long steep though, I loaded this up and I couldn't stop vaping it. It's so tasty. I am very impressed with these WF flavors. I might make a couple small tweaks but as it is I'm pretty dang happy with it!

I've been throwing different fruits at my Bubblegum base. All of them have been really tasty so far.

FLV Bubblegum 2%

FA Candy/Jammy Wizard 0.5%

INW Cactus 0.25%

Working on an apple sugar cookie idea that just kinda fell together, and an "update" on castle long that's in its infancy.

Need to get back to my work on a hops recipe, just has been slow going vaping through my testers.

Also flv pink guava. It's so damn good!

Half-way through DIYORDIE's Obsidian V2, and half-way through Chrsdvr1's Orange Vanilla Sherbet.

Vaping on the second rendition of a banana bourbon bread that I'm working on. Changed some of the base flavors around and it's getting much better.

Also made an interesting adaptation to shyndos mango sticky rice, and created a honeydew sticky rice. Still want to balance that one out though, might make a post about it later and get some advice. Currently using a combo of lb honeydew and JF honeydew melon but unsure how to best balance them in this recipe.

Looked up a bunch of lemon cookie/bar recipes and adapted this out of it:

6.0 CAP Lemon Meringue Pie

0.75 FA Lemon Sicily

1.0 FA Marshmallow

2.5 CAP Sugar Cookie

Might take out the Marshmallow and add something else.

Tupper clone

After forcing myself to put down the GIGI, I finally got some other projects moving forward. My Burley BAmana Coconut is almost ready to reveal... And I did a remix of Summer Drink... It's been impressed some, but I'm not certain if it can't be better, so another iteration probably before the official release. And I've tinkered some more with a older recipe and am liking the results.

Drove home for the holidays and brought me some Taruto remix remix ive been trying to tweak, and killing off the last 60ml of jyroe's Tigers Blood... Seriously the best damn fruit vape ive had.

While im back home where i keep my mixing stuff I'll be prepping my Sagamore or McKinley clones for next months mixers club, themed REMIXES! Ive never tasted sagamore in anything other than a shitty isub g tank, so kinda just remixing the profile to what I like on my now better gear. McKinley is my white whale and i can never get it as wet and juicy as Adirondack's, while mine also come out spicier than I intend. But I've gotten close.