I am curious to see what are some of your favorite flavorings not necessarily for their flavor but for their secondary effect. eg INW cactus for juiciness, dragonfruit to make fruit pop more, ...
TPA Kentucky Bourbon, if used low enough to not necessarily taste the bourbon, you get a nice warming effect in the mix. Works nicely in bakeries.
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FA Hazelnut around 0.5% mixed with berries does a very interesting thing. With strawberries, in particular, it adds obvious nuttiness and sweetness to the flavor, but what it ends up doing is making the strawberry feel more earthy, while also feeling more like an overripe/macerated strawberry.
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FLV Pucker is a fucking awesome tobacco additive. It gives this strange mix of bitterness/sour/"citrus candy" feel to the tobacco. It sounds gross, doesn't seem to make sense, but it really adds another level of depth and nuance to lighter, not sweet tobaccos.
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FLV Eggnog is fun to add into banana recipes, tobaccos, and bakeries in general. It adds a deeper suggestion of something being "cooked." I found out about it's benefit as an additive by messing with a banana tobacco. The bananas went from being banana to more of a fried plantain type profile. Really fun stuff.
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There are a shit ton of others, but I can't think of them now. I might add to this later.
INW Lemon Mix, to make fruit pop.
TFA cotton candy, to smooth rough flavors
CAP Hibiscus, to blend/syrupize fruits.
TFA honeysuckle, FA Marzipan to sweeten.
Ones I know of but haven't done yet:
FA pear to add juiciness.
INW Smoked plum, to dry fruits to blend with tobaccos.
I think some chemical in TFA Bavarian cream is supposed to be useful for something.
TFA honey, to get people to leave the room.
I've also heard but not used, that Pear can give a "gritt" to juices. For example, Purple Powder from SauceLA is purple pixie stick and it has that sugar gritt you get from pixie sticks.
VT fizzy sherbet should do the pixie stick thing... Honeysuckle sometimes does as well for a bit depending on steep time.
I have a guy that orders a cuban cigar blend with added TFA honey and TFA blackberry added and he LOVES it. Like it's all he vapes baffles me.
Strange interaction of flavors?
He's just antisocial?
He's got antisocial personality disorder and doesn't want people around while he's building explosive devices.he sends to random people?
If you add TFA Turkish really low like .25%-.5% it gives this nice little tongue tickle feeling. Not a huge fan of the taste of it, but I like that little tickle.
I have used FA Brandy in a couple different kinda of tobaccos. In a dessert type tobacco it just sort of enhances the depth of it. Also using it in a Perique I’m working on to try to bend it towards a sort of fruity fermented taste. Also using FA Liquid Amber along with it. As I type this I’m thinking I might also see what Bitter Wizard does in there. Hmm. Oh yeah, I’ve been using the Brandy between .5-1%.
I’ve played around with VTA Red Dates to give tobaccos a dark, prune like sweetness. Keeping it around .3% doesn’t make it super apparent that it’s there, but has been giving the desired results.
I’ve been using INW Falcon Eye as a ginger since I first got it. It just tastes like ginger to me.
Have you tried INW Brandy? I find it does the same thing but is a lot better. I think its DC'd but VT had it last I checked.
I have it, and it was the one I preferred as well, but being discontinued I decided to try out FA. I imagine if the INW is an older TDM line flavor it was originally made as a clone of FA’s. At least I think I read somewhere once that’s how INW started out. Makes sense because a lot of their TDM tobaccos taste exactly like, or very similar to FA.
Acetyl pyrazine for all bakeries and cereals. Ethyl maltol for the customer who complains your juice needs to be sweeter. EM blends flavors and removes any effort to layer, similar to JOY, I usually include bubblegum TFA at 0.8% too. JOY almost turns fruits into a smoothie in this way as if their blended, and some vanilla bean ice cream makes it a milkshake. Honeydew should be used with cactus, and cucumber has a use here too. I avoid pear when mixing with cactus, but people seem to recommend it. Inw black for pipe and their dirty neutral base are useful pairings for tobacco, but use sparingly.
I find adding a custard to vbic gives it interesting qualities more vbic than custard gives you milk shake, more custard than vbic gives you a moose like texture.
Yup, vbic gives you milkshake even without custard so long as the fruits seem to blend togeather instead of individually layer. If you like custards try capella v1 and Bavarian cream because it's an English cream custard, sort of between vbic and custard tbh. And then there's malted milk which makes cereals taste like they are layered with milk itself, but it can go sour easily.
FA Joy at 2% or above combined with Meringue at 2% or above creates an intense powdered sugar on fried bread effect in this Dumbo ears recipe, and again in this fried beignets with powdered sugar recipe.
I recently got FlavourArt Liquid Amber. I've read that it's an enhancer. It can turn apples into cider, or make fruits taste baked supposedly. I'd like to hear if anyone uses it with success.
Liquid Amber does help to give fruits a softer baked feel. If you want an apple cider I'd try country apple in with some Fuji apple. Add in a bit of cinnamon Danish swirl and you've got spiced apple cider.
If you want something like Americans call hard apple cider INW French Pipe at low % works really well especially with a fuji+Bahraini Apple Gold which is a spiced apple flavor from INW and really good.
You get a nice boozy note from it with just those but I would probably add in INW brandy or Kentucky bourbon at low % if you want some warmth/more booziness as well as the liquid amber suggested.
Something like:
French Pipe
Fuji Apple
Bahraini Apple Gold
Brandy or K. Bourbon
Liquid Amber