I tried some Apricot flavors.

VT Apricot - This is a bizarre dumpster fire of a flavor that’s not even vapable. First of all, it’s topped off with a ton of one the banes of my existence, the plastic nightmare cherry off cough medicine note. A ton of it, more than most cherry flavors. Beyond that terribly offensive plastic cherry that has no business in an apricot, there’s EVEN MORE WEIRDNESS. There is a bit of thinner, juicier take on a sweet apricot inside there, but there’s also this very strange malty cereal-type flavor to it. I could deal with the cereal thing for use in an apricot bakery recipe, but to have it contrasted with plastic nightmare cherry makes an unusable garbage flavor.

INW Apricots- An authentic underripe apricot, maybe? Strong, highly concentrated flavor, maybe the 1%I tried it at was too much? Or it needs to steep longer than a few days? Bold flavor that tastes like an apricot, but not nearly as soft and sweet as it should be, with some peachy floral and little bit of a green bitter vegetal chemically edge like a peach so underripe that it’s still hard.

FWIW “INW Apricot” was apparently reformulated two years ago and if that’s what I have, I’m sure I have the new version. But my bottle says “INW Apricots” with an S so I dunno. This INW stuff can really get confusing. I know some people report no green vegetal underripe peach type flavor in INW Apricots, but that's what mine tastes like.

TFA Apricot - Weird peach-apricot candy thing. I can sort of find the apricot in there in the middle, but the top notes have more of a lightly floral yellow peach thing going one and the base is sweet, syrupy, slightly creamy candy with a hint of vanilla. It’s almost a single flavor stone fruit cream saver, if it had just a little more cream, but a weird one, because what apricot is there in the middle is less candied than the peachy top notes or sweet base and even tastes a little green or underripe. Despite all that oddness, I definitely can’t say that I don’t enjoy vaping it, even standalone. It’s weird, but it’s one of those full-bodied, well-rounded flavors that vapes more like a satisfying recipe than a boring single flavor.

FE Apricot - I love this flavor, but I don’t get apricot from it at all. It tastes like a peach jolly rancher of a flat peach soda. None of the subtlety of an apricot, not even a cooked or dried one. Higher almost floral slightly tart yellow peach top notes, heavy syrupy sweet mostly flat but bold candy peach base. Kind of juicy in a mouthwatering candy way, with a bit of tartness from the top notes.

CAP Apricot - It’s like boiling dried apricots and drinking the water after adding some sugar to it. A light and soft apricot flavor that tastes like it might have come from nature. It’s a little simpler and slightly softer and sweeter than a real apricot, which is already a soft and not terribly or complex flavor, but it doesn’t have that bright fake oversaturated candy-type flavor. It's a subtle, unassuming type flavor both at 4% and 6%. It doesn’t taste fully cooked down into something like a jam, because that would be a more intense flavor, but it’s a bit jammy, with a sticky sweetness, almost too sticky sweet for the amount of apricot that actually comes though. Down below 4% it’s bit a bit thin, but by 6% the sticky sweet fills in more. No throat hit.

FLV Apricot - Cleary an apricot, but kind of an odd one. The top notes are a little floral in the same way that peaches can be a little floral, not out of control flowers, but a little floral. Mostly, that makes it taste more like a peach. There’s also some of that linalool peach harshness that’s too much for some but non-existent for others up there. Down low, it’s a cooked apricot, spot on, just like the inside of one of granny’s apricot fried pies. It has that same sort of caramelized fructose flavor of baked fruit. I really want to see if I can use that cooked apricot to create some other cooked fruits, like peach obviously, maybe mango, maybe even cherry. But that would require tamping down that brighter top note somehow.

FA Apricot - Different from many other FA flavors. It tastes much more natural than candied and or overly sweet, so that’s about that I’d expect, but it also isn’t especially thin, dry, or top heavy. Top notes are mild, subtle yellow peachy-type of flavor (at 2%). Pushing it higher (4%) doesn’t really make it more assertive, it’s just a gentle type of fresh fruit flavor, but not weak like CAP Apricot. Not a dried or cooked type of flavor at all. I don’t get any sort of harshness from this, overall it’s just smooth and gentle flavor. It’s exhale starts and finishes weaker: it’s more of a middle-range flavor, with a nice full fleshy body like you’d expect from a fresh apricot.

TFA Apricot can make a recipe harsh asf

Kinda like Juicy Peach

Although it boosts Pineapple beautifully when used at 0.5%

Nicotine river mango @ 5%_ tastes like a lemon peach cocktail with vodka, wasnt gross, but it was definately NOT a mango. Kind of reminded me of FA mango.

Cap sweet tangerine at 5% by itself taste just like a orange hard candy, if you are into it that profile go for it, it have maybe 1/10 tartness. It is pretty enjoyable.

Paired it with 2% cap orange creamsicle and it rounded the flavor taking away some of the hard candy flavor and giving it sort of fanta like taste.