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#This week's flavor is... GUAVA!
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I've tried CAP Sweet Guava and TFA Guava.
CAP Sweet Guava is very sweet and can give a nice tropical taste to a flavour.
TFA Guava on the other hand, well, it gets quite a bit of hate. I think there's something in it that could be unlocked, and I used to vape it at 1% with 4% CAP Sweet Guava. 1% in hindsight is WAY too high. It's very, uh, fibrous? STRONG astringent flavours, and I can't tell if I used to vape it because it had something good going for it or if it's so odd that you can't get enough of it. I threw out my bottle of it a while ago, probably won't get another one any time soon.
Here's a recipe I've just mixed up this morning, before I saw that guava was gonna be this weeks flavour:
Flavour | Percentage ---|--- CAP Sweet Guava| 4% CAP Cucumber| 3% WS-23| 0.4% Cactus| 0.2%
Edit:
Notes! So I think it's a pretty good starting point. 0.4% on the WS-23 feels just about right, maybe a touch too high. Dropping it to 0.2-0.3% on my next test. The cactus is making it juicy but it's flavouring it like it does, when competing against the cucumber it's out competing it.
Edit 2:
The day after, I went through about 5ml so far and it's starting to get a syrupy taste to it. I'm not 100% sure where it's coming from, could be the coil. Maybe sweet guava needs to be dropped down a little.
I'm worried it'll be too dry without the cactus but maybe the sweet guava will hold it on its own. V2 will have the cactus dropped. Cucumber I think is nice where it is, tastes a bit like a sweet guava cucumber water. I might try pushing the cucumber a little higher but I'm worried the peel taste may start to overwhelm.
I haven't actually tried it yet, it's sitting on my desk as I type this, maybe I'll edit this with a bit of feedback then. I bought a cucumber and honeydew melon air freshener and it instantly got me in the mood for a cucumber vape. Looked through my flavours and saw Sweet Guava and thought I'd give it a try. Cactus for juiciness and WS-23 for cooling. I've heard Cucumber gets a bit 'peely' at 3% but we'll see how it turns out.
Hope I got this format right? First time posting in one of these threads.
“starting to get a syrupy taste to it”
Guava mixed with cactus is destoying your wick. I have a similiar receipe that has become my ADV, but I have to rewick every 10 mls.
Ah cheers for the info, alright for V2 I'll definitely drop Cactus and see what improvements it makes. Care to share the recipe?
Company|Flavor|% ---|---|--- INW|Cactus|.25% CAP|Golden Pineapple|2.5% VT|Persian Lime|2% CAP|Sweet Guava|4% VT|Yoghurt Drink|4.5% FW|Yogurt|3% Other|WS-23|.25%
I have only been DIY for a couple of months now, but I do have a recipe that I really enjoy. I think most people will probably say that it is far too much flavor, and they are probably right. Either way my friends and I enjoy it. In the Marine Corps they call anyone that is not a grunt a "POG" (Person other than grunt), and my flavors are Pineapple, Orange and Guava. If anyone has any suggestions I am open to criticism.
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POG Juice
- Cap Golden Pineapple 3%
- INW Pineapple 3%
- INW Orange 3%
- FLV Blood Orange 3%
- CAP Sweet Guava 3%
- FLV Citrus Soda 2%
- VT Fizzy Sherbet 2%
- WS-23 .5%
While I don't contribute much to these threads, I have to say I appreciate your title puns.
Thanks. Do you have a favorite guava flavor or recipe that uses a guava flavor?
My last order I played with a few. Going to share thoughts at some point but I need to organize my notes and transcribe.
https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/136775#rainforest_by_rockyharlow > I enjoyed this one even though it was lighter on flavor than I expected. I want to go back and maybe bump up the flavoring slightly to see if it suits my tastes better.
https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/37881#prickly_victory_by_hashslingingslashur > This was good too but I didn't quite enjoy it as much. Just personal taste. The cactus was a bit strong for me personally.
I really want to try https://e-liquid-recipes.com/recipe/496489/Guava-Lime%20Candy but it requires 4 unique flavors that I don't currently have other use for.
I feel as though I like guava as a flavor but I also haven't vaped anything that blew me away that was guava focused.
This is my pink guava based recipe: https://e-liquid-recipes.com/recipe/3108027/Pink%20Cactus
There’s nothing subtle, nuanced or delicate about it. The idea was to take the three most dominant, in your face flavors I had and mix them together. I really enjoy it, and it was my adv for a while.
FLV Pink Guava. Just to cover it. It's not exactly guava, and it's a rorschach test to many. I use it at 2% as a single flavor. I get like 60% grapefruit due to a heavy rind taste but not much citrus flavor with 40% guava filling out the background. Some people get just grapefruit, some people get guava. I've had CAP Sweet Guava and it's a different beast (can't compare directly as my new bottle is in the mail). If you're fine with either grapefruit or guava, I don't think you can go wrong here.
To me, it's weird mixing so I honestly don't bother. I use it at 2% as a ADV for me when I'm tired of other flavors. It's super refreshing for that. But it always needs something to bring it to life IMO. A touch of sweetener to give it body, but too much removes the nice tartness. Or some chilling agent, like even a touch of koolada really brings life to it.
I tried something with grapefruit & guava and it was pretty good. I took the Prickly Victory recipe and subbed out the Cactus with INW Grapefruit. It's lame but I wrote "grapefruit victory" on the bottle lol.
Cap sweet guava is the tits. Hash's recipe is bonkers.
Cap sweet guava 4% INW cactus 1%
(iirc). This is one of the best and simplest recipes I've seen and tasted.
Prickly Victory is a gorgeous genius stroke of a recipe.
English is not my native language, isn't bonkers something like stupid?
Can be. But I felt bonkers more was "crazy". So in this case, crazy can mean both good and bad. English is a weird language lol
I already posted this a while ago and I'll be happy to remove it, if it's not wanted in this thread please let me know.
|Co.|Flavor|%| |:-|:-|:-| |CAP|Greek Yogurt|3.8| |INW|Rhubarb YC|3| |CAP|Sweet Guava|1| |TPA|Dragonfruit|0.5| |CAP|Super Sweet|0.2|
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Cap Greek Yogurt serves as the creamy base that helps to tame the agressiveness of the other flavors used and gives an unintrusive creamy vibe. Normally I dislike the slightly sour taste it leaves behind when used over 3% but in this case, it's there because it needs to be.
Cap Sweet Guava doesn't need an introduction as it's widely known for it's syrupy goodness, I love this flavor and use it quite a lot. In this recipe, it for once, is not the star of the show, but serves the perfect additive to bring some more of that "pynk" feel and a little sweetness. INW Rhubarb YC is a strong flavor with a lot of bite, I was tinkering with it for a long time until I came up with a recipe where it could shine, whitout letting it's floral edge take over. TPA Dragonfruit acts as an emulsifier and connects all the layers as well as pushing the "pynk" vibe I was going for to where I wanted it.
This has been in my rotation since october 18' and I hope you can enjoy it as much as I do.Feel free to leave out the Cap SS, I added it for the misses and it just stayed in there.
For those wondering: INW Rhubarb = Rhubarb YC, they only make one rhubarb flavor since 2018, at least that was the info I got from INW.
|Flavor Facts - Guava| |---| |FOTW - Guava 1| |FOTW - Guava 2| |Noted - Guava on YT| |Noted - Guava on DoD| |Guava Recipes on ATF| |Guava Recipes on ELR|
To see Flavor Facts for other flavor profiles - CLICK HERE
|Flavor|Company|Review|ATF|ELR| |---|---|---|---|---| |Sweet Guava|Capella|by ConcreteRiver|On ATF|On ELR| |Guava|Decadent Vapors|by ConcreteRiver| - - - |On ELR| |Guava|Flavor West| - - - |On ATF|On ELR| |Mango Guava|Flavor West| - - - |On ATF|On ELR| |Pink Guava|Flavorah|by ConcreteRiver|On ATF|On ELR| |Guava|Flavors Express|by ConcreteRiver|On ATF|On ELR| |Guava|FlavourArt|by ConcreteRiver|On ATF|On ELR| |Guava|LorAnn| - - - |On ATF|On ELR| |Guava|Medicine Flower| - - - |On ATF|On ELR| |Guava|Natures Flavors| - - - |On ATF|On ELR| |Guava Papaya|Nude Nicotine| - - - |On ATF|On ELR| |Sweet Guava|One on One| - - - |On ATF|On ELR| |Guava|Real Flavors| - - - |On ATF|On ELR| |Guava|Solub Arome|by ConcreteRiver| - - - |On ELR| |Guava|The Flavor Apprentice| - - - |On ATF|On ELR| |Passion Orange Guava|The Flavor Apprentice|by ConcreteRiver|On ATF|On ELR| |Guava|Vape Train|by ConcreteRiver|On ATF|On ELR|
Inawera makes a Guava Flavor. I think I picked it up at ECX? Maybe NicRiver. It's nothing special on it's own. Although I've never eaten a real guava before. I have yet to try it in a mix. Got it several months ago though.
After amazing results with the Sweet Guava by Cap I was curious to try other guava flavours. And OMG, that was a disaster. Pink Guava by FLV - never ever again. Can someone point me to a fresh guava flavour? Somehow similiar to Caps version but different.
Anyway, this is a amazing recipe (not mine) that has become my ADV.
https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/138063#getting_guava_with_it_by_nhk48