How do people (juice reviews, aroma reviews) give a description for "taste" on inhale? When I take a drag at 90watts on my Dead Rabbit, my nose automatically "closes" and i just inhale through my mouth but I can't taste anything (just like you can't taste when you have a cold) until I exhale through my mouth / nose. I've tried to taste, to "open"my airways but my body automatically rejects this on the inhale.
Am I missing something? Is my body broken? :D I've been vaping for a few years now, but never really questioned this common statement until now.
You're completely normal. Too many wannabe connoisseurs out there talking out of their asses.
This exactly.
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There's no way to get a taste on the inhale (beyond the basics of sweet, sour, etc) unless you're doing something weird, 'cause the vapor doesn't get near your sinuses.
What? That's silly. Your tongue is covered with taste receptors. You can drop some salt on it and taste salt.
The only thing even minutely resembling a "taste" on inhale is that light sensation of sweetness. Not even an actual taste of sweetness, just a sensation. Just tried it out before typing up this comment. Everyone here is correct. Anyone saying they taste actual flavor on the inhale is lying.
For comparison, I get a similar thing from sour additives. Despite all my trying, I've never actually, truly tasted sourness in a juice with a sour additive. My mouth will still respond to the sourness by tightening a little bit, but unless my atty spits in my mouth like I paid it $20 in a backalley, I don't actually experience the sour taste.
If you add enough sweetner though you can definitely taste it cause it'll coat your tongue on the inhale. Had a generally bad experience.
My physics teacher in high school lost his sense of taste earlier in his life and he told us once that this happens with basically everything, you just don't notice because it's completely masked by flavor. He would have to rinse his mouth out after eating and drinking because he could feel the sugar/fat in his mouth.
He could also win sooo many bar bets, but he didn't say anything about that.
Just took a puff and never realised my nose was closing off when I inhaled lol..
That said I do taste the flavor with the I hale but never really had the "I taste a hint of vanilla and blue berry on the inhale and sweet cinnamon and strawberry on the exhale" stuff
The flavor very much depends on the build, rda/rta/juice/coil placement etc
P.s. how long have you been vaping. No joke the first few months I had constant capers tongue took months before I could finally taste flavors properly and stopped getting capers tongue all the time. It also.really helps that i always have 3 different miss with 3 different juices ready to vape.
Instead of taking a puff as if you smoking a cigarette, take a puff as if you smoking a pipe.
Look how DIY od DIE does it:
- take a bit of vapor into your mouth;
- make a split second pause;
- do another small puff;
- let some vapor into your noise;
- do a giant hit as if you are attending vape competition and exhale it through both your noise and your mouth.
You got used to smoking cigarettes 😤
You do that each time you vape?
What is capers tongue?
It's a typo, he meant "vapers tounge." it's where you taste the same flavor for so long that you don't even taste it anymore.
You are totally right. Inhale does not use your olfactory senses to detect flavor. You can detect sweet, salty, sour, bitter during inhale, but not flavor.
Unless you are vaping into your nostril, of course.
The "on the inhale... On the exhale..." bullshit came from liquid companies trying to market their goods to make them seem more complex. People who fell for it psychosomatically think that they actually can taste flavors on the inhale.
I could definitely taste on inhale, years ago. I haven't been able to taste shit in years.
But it's hilarious when people start talking about e-liquid like it's wine tasting. Shit is cringe worthy. Notes of this or that. E-liquid doesn't get that damn complex.
I can barely taste stuff on the INHALE, usually get muted notes of fruity stuff or slight vanilla and sometimes nothing at all, always assumed there are people who are really sensitive and people who aren't, like us.
*** edit: i fucked up, meant to say INHALE, i can taste stuff on the exhale.
How long have you quit smoking? How.long have you been vaping for .. it took months before I fully started tasting flavors
I think different people may have different biological mechanisms of taste... I can taste flavors on inhale and exhale. I get more nuanced "tones" on the exhale but I absolutely can and do make judgements on liquid quality on the initial part of the drag. For instance I could immediately tell that the grape flavor liquid had left a strong residue after switching to a homebrew apple pie flavor because I could taste it on my tongue.
I might as well mention that I rarely ever eat at restaurants because I can taste everything cooked in a commercial kitchen on every item of food, so it all tastes like deep fried bollocks to me... Maybe I'm a freak.
It actually depends on how you vape from my experience. I taste on the inhale, more general flavours and obviously not as intensely as the exhale, but there is flavour there.
I direct lung inhale, and seem to hold my tongue in the middle of my mouth while inhaling instead of on the bottom or roof, which might make a difference.
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I totally disagree with what the others said, as I generally inhale with both my throat AND my nostrils(so that I can taste 'inhale' flavors-no, I'm not inhaling the vapor up my nose. but by opening up my whole airway, I can indeed taste an 'inhale', just as I taste food better while breathing in & out my nose while I chew food). Granted, they are very faint as compared to exhale. I cant believe that no one is tasting flavor right before the body switches to 'exhale mode'. Meaning, nothing has yet been exhaled--but the respiratory system is beginning the process of changing over in order to exhale. In this same way, I exhale mainly via my mouth(approximately 75%), but also vapor comes out of my nose(approximately 25%). I specifically exhale this way so that I can taste a stronger flavor from the vapor. Flavor perception is a collaboration of the nose, the tastebuds & mouth. But maybe that's just me. I do agree however, that inhale is much weaker in flavor as compared to the exhale. I also believe different people perceive flavor differently and that not everyone tastes the same. Just as I believe that some are really in tune to the art of tasting. Just my humble opinion.
You cant taste when you have a cold because your nasal passages are blocked. Your airway also becomes closed when you swallow. Otherwise you would aspirate everything and die. I think that most humans when inhaling through the mouth, have intake through the nose as well. It would be very difficult to keep this from happening other than purposely pinching your nose closed while inhaling and exhaling...
So, there are people out there known as super tasters. They have a much higher sensitivity to tastes than a normal person. It's possible that these people who make these claims are super tasters and can actually detect the changes in flavor from the inhale and exhale.
It's also possible that they're full of shit and are using buzz words to make their reviews sound better.
Honestly being more sensitive to flavors sucks. I pick up on all the off notes that other people don't even know exist. I also get muted to flavors easier. I don't know why anyone would want to call themselves a super taster if they're not. But then again, I don't really understand why people do most of the shit they do.
Depends on the juice. I made an Arnold Palmer that's distinctly lemonade on the inhale and tea on the exhale. Make sure you're hydrated, I know it's super cliche but it does make a world of difference. Take a vape now and note the flavor, then take a drink of water before the next vape, the flavor will be better.