Honestly for me it would be FLV Pink Guava. It's just something I love vaping as a standalone, adding super small amounts to a bunch of fruit recipes, mixing with mints, mixing with EM. It's just my all time fave flavour!

Here's my latest with it:

2% FLV Guanabana

1% FLV Pink Fruit

0.5% FLV Pink Guava

0.3% FLV Peppermint

It's my new ADV and it's oh so addicting

I think of all the flavors i have dangerously come close to over using:

FLV Milk and Honey - It blends magically in tobaccos as far as I'm concerned but totally useful in a zillion other ways. You can basically use it to build your own ry4 ishness with some caramel and vanilla, which leads me to my other next one.... (1-1.5 depending on how heavy are the flavors you're mixing with).

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FLV Smooth Vanilla - I picked this up and until i did i was shisha vanilla all the way. FLV SV has all but replaced it. The only thing is that it is in that RC/Clove category that means a dilution is likely in order. Ir you can just be like me and vape through the first three days until you can taste something other than SV when you're off by 0.01%. This is another one I use heavily with tobaccos which can stand up to the long steep times, the bolder flavors etc. 0.1-0.3 should be more than enough.

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FLV Sweet Cig - Probably seeing a pattern here, but this one can give you just that little bit of sweet that's missing to make a tobacco mix more sweet without losing the tobacco character or adding competing or contrasting flavors. Used 0.5-1 it makes mixes heavenly when i want that more sweet in a mix i already 'sort of' almost have down.

FLV Yam + FE Taro

RF Baked Bread + FLV Starch Base

JF Dulce de Leche + FLV Cookie Dough

FA Jamaican Rum + WF Deep Fried Plantain SC + VT Banana Custard

INW Sesame Sweets

FM Pistachio
This is by far the best single flavor I've tried!

TFA Pistachio is regarded by many as the greatest - But now I can't even vape that stuff anymore..
FlavourMonks isn't easily available everywhere though, and that's kinda' sad.

Two that come to mind are INW Shisha Orange and VT Banana Custard. I'll probably try them together some time for an orange julius vape. Something like this would probably be delicious. It uses my super-secret new ice cream base I lifted from my Tiger Stripe Ice Cream recipe that I plan on completing early this year.

Untested Orange-Banana Cream

|VT Banana Custard|4.5%| |:-|:-| |TFA Vanilla Bean Ice Cream|2%| |TFA French Vanilla Deluxe|1.5%| |FA Oba Oba|1.5%| |INW Shisha Orange|1%| |FLV Cream|0.5%|

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Not new but another favorite of mine has been TFA Papaya - I reordered it about 4 times this year!

Cap Sweet Strawberry for the 5th year in a row, 2nd is Flv Pink guava. 3rd is WF Strawberry Gummy Candy. Oh, and also Yes, we Cheesecake with an honorable mention.

I will play. TFA Jackfruit

Noted Ep. 132: FLAVOURS OF THE YEAR 2019 (w/ Fresh03)

Worst Flavours of 2019:

Fresh's Worst Flavours: Fresh ranked his worst and chose flavours released in 2019 only.

TFA Strawberry Yoghurt: Disappointing. TFA have one of the best yogurts and some good strawberries. But there's too much butiric so gets pukey quickly, and the strawberry wasn't one of their other single strawberry flavours. It's just disappointing. Bollocks! Just got a 30ml because Wayne said it was a good single flavour strawberry yoghurt. Use between 6-8% as a single flavour, 3-5% in a mix

INW Wonder Waffle: Nothing like the original INW Waffle. Terrible, like really, really awful! Tastes like a really bad peanut butter, burnt chocolate, some hazelnut and as much butiric as they could cram into it.

Cheeba's Worst Flavours:

WF Strawberry Milk: Cheeba, Emily and ID10-T had this on their worst lists. Disappointing as they have good strawberries and good creams. It's pukey, funky- strong butiric note which didn't steep out. Emily steeped for a month and it was still present. Fresh thought it would be like their milk which is awful until it's had at least a ten day steep. Then it's a pretty good milk. But why use that when you have OOO CMU that doesn't need 10 days?!

FW Cappuccino: Knew he was going to put a coffee in this list as there's so many bad coffee flavours. This one has a butiric note and is a bad skunky coffee. ID10-T described it as burnt toast milk farts.

TFA Organic Strawberry: No real strawberry flavour, just dirt.

TFA Movie Theatre Popcorn: Emily had this as a dishonourable mention. Butiric. The worst the popcorns. Weird considering they have a great popcorn, TFA Kettle Corn.

FA White Truffle: Can't get over how horrible this flavour is. Stinks the room out.

MlNikon's Worst Flavours:

HC Corn: Dirty puke. It you want corn get FA Corn, it's a bowl of buttered corn. Use FA really low though because it bombs after a couple of days and can really take over a mix.

HC Pound Cake: Could be the best pound cake flavour but it has a strong butiric note that doesn't steep out. Disappointing.

FA Nonna's Cake: A lot of people like this flavour. It's a lemon cake with anise. Emily doesn't like anise and you can't cover it. CAP Yellow Cake is a dishonourable mention as it also has a lemon note and an anise note. It was a really hyped flavour when it came out as everyone was looking for a substitute for FW. Alot of people were disappointed and hated it . Fresh said it works really well with really bright berries. It adds a natural leafiness or a bit of a green note.

WF Dweeb Candy: Harsh, plastic chemical note. Made the list because all the other WF candys are really good and this one is really bad by comparison.

ID10-T's Worst Flavours:

DIYFS Pixie Stix: Only flavour he tried this year that tasted like urine. Very sweet, rotten, floral.

VT Creamy Custard: Tastes like a very rotten banana. Has a clove-ish kinda spice which madness it sour. No custard It's also not creamy, it's dry and chalky.

VT Apricot: Bizarre flavour. Other companies have done good apricots. Has the same off notes most cherries have, plastic, cough medicine, chemically. But had more of it than most cherry flavours. Also has strange malty cereal type flavour which doesn't fit in an apricot either. Totally unusable. Emily had it as a dishonourable mention.

FA Yoghurt: Their new yoghurt, not the old one. They changed it 3-4 years ago. The old one was great. The be one is really nasty. Very butiric, tastes like athletes feet and mayo. Emily also had this as a dishonourable mention.

FA Pineapple: Burning tyres, rotten onions. Really, really horrible. How do these flavours very released?!

Is this just flavors I finally got around to trying or that were new and released this past year?

For me it's Cap buttermint. Stand-alone or in a recipe, yummy.

Flv lemonade, I like it better than LA.

After almost 2 years of mixing I finally started branching out.

My Top 3 this year

1. Creme Brulee INW it’s fantastic on it’s own. It’s not the most versatile but I’m loving it.

2. Yes We Cheesecake INW as a Cap NY cheesecake lover this one is neck a neck with it for the best cheesecake. They are the ultimate couple though!

3. Forest Fruit FA Again another flavor that I can dig solo but for me is absolutely killer in cereal mixes or other fruity experiments.

Part 2

Noted Ep. 132: FLAVOURS OF THE YEAR 2019 (w/ Fresh03)

Best Flavours of 2019:

Fresh's Best Flavours: Ranked. He did two best of lists- all flavours that were released in 2019. One was best of WF specifically because they had so many good flavours come out this year.

VT Lemon Meringue Tart: Buttery, almost a perfect lemon curd, lovely creaminess, can be used as a SF at around 5% it's that good in its own. One of the best lemon flavours of the year.

VSO Pumpkin: Finally a pumpkin flavour that legitimately tastes like mashed up pumpkin. Has a hint of all spice but not enough that it would interfere with anything. Fresh does OOO Pie Crust, VSO Pumpkin and CAP Vanilla Custard for a creamy pumpkin pie. Other VSO flavours to get- blueberry (most authentic), blue raspberry, red raspberry, strawberry

MB Pineapple Lassi: Pineapple with creamy vanilla yoghurt. The pineapple is good but it's one of the best yoghurt flavours Fresh has ever had. The pineapple is light enough that if you put a sweet fruit on top of it it turns into the best fruit yoghurt. It's really rich with a lovely vanilla. Easy to use as it's not hard to manipulate the pineapple into something else. According to Fresh this is the best flavour MB released in 2019.

VT Sour Lemon: A legitimately sour lemon, something that was really missing in the flavours that came before it and something that is really hard to emulate in vaping. It's really tart and doesn't fade as bad as so many other lemons. Pretty juicy. If you're looking to make an authentic lemon flavour this is essential. It lingers on the palette.

FLV Sweet and Smokey: Fresh's number one flavour that came out this year. Since it came out it found its way into every tobacco mix he made. Really good sweet tobacco. It's moist, has just enough smokiness. Just adding 0.5% of this to any other tobacco will make it better. Gives all other tobacco flavours more depth, adds moisture to drier tobaccos. He added this to tobaccos he didn't even like before and it improved them immensely. Add 0.5% of this to Cardinal. Best additive of the year, even with its limited scope of just being able to use it in tobacco mixes.

Fresh's Best WF flavours: Fresh thought WF was vendor of the year. They had two separate releases of 12 flavours this year and every single one was incredibly good.

Their second release of the year they were focusing more on mouth sensation. The following were included in that release,

WF Cookie Butter: It's not the pot of cookie butter you can buy, its sugar cookies crushed up in butter. He calls it 'better bakery butter'. It's once of the best butter flavours ever with a sweet cookie note and works in any bakery- very versatile. It also has a really nice mellow spice note.

WF Strawberry Cheesecake: So amazing. Most complete cheesecake flavour. Yes, We Cheesecake is very good, but not as good as this. Has a sweet, gelatinous strawberry, which is like a mellow version of their baked strawberry. But you can add other fruits and use that gelatin texture to create a different type of cheesecake. Can definitely vape it as a SF and its pretty concentrated, so at 2.5% you've got a one shot. Only needs 2 days steep and you've got probably the most complete cheesecake flavour there is.

Cheeba's Best Flavours: Ranked

OOO Strawberry Jam: On Emily's honourable mention list. Very jammy, deep and full, nice strawberry, some good texture.

INW Yes, We Cheesecake!: On everybody's honourable mentions. Creamy, decadent with some Graham Crust. It's a profile a lot of people had been disappointed with until this flavour was released.

OOO Vanilla Custard Cheesecake: On Emily's list as well. Not suitably named as it's more like a cream cheese icing- is the best cream cheese icing flavour, better than LAs. Especially as it only needs to steep for 2 days or so.

FE Sweet Rice: Authentic rice flavour. Fresh used it in a tapioca pudding recipe, but after it has steeped. It's got great gummy starchiness.

VT Fizzy Sherbet: Honourable mention- A lot of fun to use and tasty.

MlNikon's Best Flavours: Ranked

VT Cookies and Cream: Not an Oreo. It's a sugar cookie and cream. Works really well in ice creams

WF Flapper Pie: Mostly meringue and a little custard that runs underneath. Has a light pie crust. A better meringue than FA according to ID10-T. More robust. You can vape it as a SF. Goes with any fruit.

DEL Strawberry Milk: The best strawberry milk, especially as most combined strawberry and cream flavours are not very good. Got a good balance of the cream and the strawberry. The milk is a little buttery, full mouthfeel and very dairy without being butiric. The strawberry is pretty good too. Tastes like strawberry Quik.

OOO Corn Bread: Useful flavour. Not massively corny. Rich, deep, buttery with a great grainy texture which makes it a great cake additive. It's not out of place a many bakery mixes. If you need depth in a cake recipe you can use this at a lower %. You won't get any of the corn notes, just a little bit of butter, the texture and the richness it has. Recipe: Soho Cornbread (OOO Corn Bread, FA Soho, OOO creme Brulee),

HC Egg Roll: Emily's best flavour of the year. It's the wrapping of a sweet desert like a cannolli with powdered sugar. If you need a crispy pastry for something like a cannolli this is the flavour to use. It's far better than other cannolli shell flavours. Has a little touch of spice, powdered sugar and amazing texture. Fresh thought it was reminiscent of a fortune cookie. Has a nice vanilla note

ID10-T's Best Flavours: Not ranked

FLV Guanabana: Everybody's honourable mention. So many great recipes out there which use this flavour. Interesting enough that you can vape this by itself if you wanted to. It crosses so many fruits- you get a hint of strawberry, coconut, all sorts. Creamy and bright. Flavourful and versatile.

CAP Sweet Currant: Everybody's honourable mention. A little floral and a little funky but not in a bad way. Might put some people off though. It's sticky sweet while being tart, acidic and bright. Versatile. If your looking for a tart note inan use it to brighten up a raspberry for example. Comes across in vaping so well, like it was designed for it. It goes well with almost any fruit but especially strawberry, cranberry or any berry, grape. Emily used it with FW Wild Berry Cobbler and LB Cranberry Cobbler.

TFA Vanilla Custard II: It seems pepper tasters won't get pepper from this as it has a different vanilla to their Custard and VBIC. It's not as buttery as FA Custard Premium. ID10-T sees FA as a butter to use with custard as opposed to a single flavour custard- goes well with INW Custard. It helps with the dryness of INW and they just compliment each other really well. It's ID10-T's favourite custard combo. TFA is very sweet compared to the other single flavour custards, although not too sweet and it's an EM sweetness. It's eggy, has warm feel to it like a warm custard, really rich, buttery (just not as buttery as FA), a little brown sugar.

FLV Rich Cinnamon: So far ahead of other cinnamon flavours. An essential flavour to have and a 10ml will last a life time. The perfect bakery cinnamon. Has depth and richness that sets it apart. It's a bit 'red hot' cinnamon for the first 24 hours then it turns into magic!

WF Strawberry (Baked): Very different to all the other strawberry flavours. Maybe what FLV was aiming for with their Strawberry Filling? But this is so much better. Tastes like the fruit part of a strawberry cobbler. All it needs is some crust. This goes really well with OOO Strawberry Jam. Fresh did that combo with some OOO Pie Crust and some Brown Sugar and it was really good.