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Single Flavors Tested
submitted over 5 years ago by ApexifiedThe Kingmaker

WEEK 53

 

> Welcome back to another thread for sharing your impressions of single flavors you've tried. Unlike our flavor reviews which go in to a lot more detail, this is the place for brief notes. Here's a few examples (out of 70+) from last week's thread:

/u/foment_life on Capella Dragon Fruit - it smells very much like bitter fruit rind, but at 2% it doesn’t really present that way. It’s soft and vaguely non-descript fruit, though it may share a fair bit in common with CAP’s sweet strawberry. It is decidedly candylike, much like many of Capella’s offerings but not bad, just sort of adequate.

/u/glasschalic468 on LA Almond Natural

  • 1% almond with skin
  • 2% lots of nut skin, a little toasted
  • 3% smooth, really nice all around almond
  • 4% very nice balanced almond 100%
  • 5% sweet white almond meat, stronger nut skin, getting dry
  • 6% muting

/u/vergaerd on FA Mango Indian Special - From the 18 mango's I've tried my favorite had been WF Island Mango for a long time. FA Indian Special has some similarities, but doesn't come with the upfront citrus note and the melon/cantaloupe notes in this are more realistic. I believe I have found a new favorite for this profile. At 4%, this is juicy, fleshy, complex, lightly sweet and has a realistic pine note, without being in your face or dry like FLV Mango. It reminds me of freshly pressed mango juice. You could vape this standalone with a little bit of sweetener. I'd say it's as versatile as a semi realistic mango flavorings get, pairing with almost any other fruit in a beverage and cold dessert type of mixes. At ~2% this is still really good, just less strong. I'm yet to test this in a mix, but I bet it's not hard to work with.

 


 

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by ID10-Tover 5 years agoWinner: Best Recipe of 2019 - Counter Punch

I did the green apple quick step

FA Apple (Tart Granny Smith) - That is a deeply weird and terrible flavor, like vaping a trash can filled with off notes. There’s a little green apple half-buried in this mess, but it’s just the most bizarre collection things, all mashed up together - some nail polish remover, bubblegum, under-ripe banana, some lemon, some butter for whatever reason, hints of cinnamon and nutmeg. It’s really, really weird. There might be some use for a small amount of this in an apple pie, where the spice and butter wouldn’t be out of place, but I wouldn’t buy it. It is thick while a lot of green apple flavors are unfortunately thin, but it’s a heavy buttery thickness that doesn’t really have anything to do with a green apple.

FW Green Apple (Natural) - It tastes dirty, like it has literal dirt in it. Does not taste like a natural green apple. It tastes like a jolly rancher coated in dirt.

CAP Green Apple - Mostly tastes like lemon. Juicy, but some green Fabuloso vibes, or some kind of cleaning product, so not even a very good lemon. There is some green apple there underneath, but the juicy lemon scented cleaning product - not Pledge but some kind of cleaner, something soapier, is dominant. Some juicy lemon body and sweet/tart and almost creamy body.

Ooo Happy Chewy Apple Candy- Another oddity. Like walking into a cloud of baby powder with a jolly rancher in your mouth. I guess it’s supposed to be a green apple taffy type thing but it tastes like green apple candy plus baby powder. Has a strong off note that’s very similar to whatever scent they put in baby powder, along with a soft green apple candy taste. Even has kind of a powdery texture to it, but sweet.

LB Green Apple - Potent for a LB flavor, full-flavored at 3%, usually LB is a little weaker. Mostly green apple candy, but also a weird and sort of spicy peel note and some other weird shit going on. Not only nail polish remover but also as a weird, waxy, plasticky thing going on. Thick body but it feels a little creamy and there might even be a bit of vanilla in there. Overall result is less like a green apple jolly rancher and more like a green apple laffy taffy, but wrapper and all, along with some spicyish peel.

Magical Flavors Green Apple - Very sweet syrupy green apple jolly rancher flavor, like vaping a melted jolly rancher, but with a moderate acetone/nail polish remover off note, and pretty harsh as well. It’s probably not terrible a little lower than 2%, especially if you don’t have a baby throat, but nothing special either.

FW Green Apple - Halfway between real apple and candy candy apple, like finding a jolly rancher inside a green apple peel. Has just a little of that acetone nail polish remover chemical off-note. Not a lot, unless maybe you’re extra sensitive to it. It’s thick and really sweet. But it also has sugar in it. I only went through about 5 ml of it and that wasn’t enough to gunk my shit up, but I imagine it wouldn’t take too much more to do it and I don’t see the point in vaping SUGAR when there are better options. It’s not FW Yellow Cake but green apple.

FLV Granny Smith - Crisp and sweet mostly natural green apple, with slight grassy nail polish remover all around it, and also a little candied. Really similar to their Green Apple, but more natural and with worse off notes and more TH. Sharp up front, where that acetone note lies, then some crisp green apple peel and a sweet body, but that acetone bit comes back in the finish and lingers in a way that marrs that sweeter, more candied base. Also there’s some TH, it’s a little rough. Also a bit dry for a green apple, I want some juice here. I would not use this again at 2%. I don’t want to use this without a lot of help, I’d use it more as an additive for that crisp tart peel bite in the middle in the half a percent or less range with other apples or pears if I wanted to find an easy use for it. But that’s just me, and I have tried it in a recipe, one of my favorites actually, at 1.5% and didn’t find the recipe to be harsh or have any chemical off notes: https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/64553#pheasant_ridge_by_fear

FLV Green Apple - Mostly natural green apple up front, but leans a bit candy overall, sort of like two flavors in one, natural and candy. Not quite nail polish remover but grassy and a bit astringent or bitter - lots of sharp peel here upfront. Some juiciness with a sweet and thick base that goes candish and flat - quite a bit of separation between the green apple skin and green apple candy. As much TH as a very tart flavor but not really that tart, just feels acidic. Seems like a small amount of it might turn a fuji apple into more of a green - not sure about using it as the main or only green apple flavor. Not a bad flavor, just has an identity issue where it seems too natural for candy and too candy for natural by itself.

VT Green Apple - Very sweet candy jolly rancher green apple but hints of lemongrass or lemon and grass, not sure exactly. Tart but the tartness is more lemony than that specific green apple tartness. A bit top heavy, with a more bland but syrupy sweet base as those brighter lemony and slightly grassy green notes drop off gradually. Not a terrible candy green apple, but far from perfect. Slightly dry but sticky sweet finish.

INW Anton Apple - Natural green apple. Clean, not getting any of that acetone or grass business that many of the green apples have, though it tastes at 2% like it might go nail polish remover higher, or it could go floral or grassy, not sure. Some people HAVE reported acetone off notes with it at 3%, I’m not getting them here at 2%. Sweet and bright, with a crisp little bite of tart skin in the middle rather than right on top. Lingering sweet finish. Main issue with this is that it’s not the most in your face green apple flavor, it’s a little on the soft or mild side, but that could be a good thing, depending on what you’re using it for. I’ve tried it in a mix at 2.5% and it did show up without off-notes, but wasn’t really the main flavor. Also a small amount of it could make big difference in brightness and tartness, but still not give a full apple flavor. Also it’s quite thin, almost a green apple juice without that real thick mealy apple body, yet also not very juicy. It’s a little dry and very slightly harsh, just enough that I want to mix it with something juicy and avoid other slightly harsh ingredients. It’s dying to be filled in with another apple flavor, though I really want to try filling it out with a little of one of the custard apple flavors - specifically WF WF Cherimoya or or FLV Soursop, as both of those are thicker but have some green apple notes to them.

CAP Green Apple Hard Candy - Seriously good green apple hard candy. Tastes like a green apple sucker, no acetone BS that plagues a lot of green apple flavors, unapologetically candy without any apple peel to speak of. Weak, needs about 8% just to be an effective dose, 12% is a more filled-out single flavor. It’s sweet and sticky and specifically tastes like hard candy, a little under-sweet for candy, but not something some sweetener can’t fix. It’s a little short on the tart punch of a jolly rancher, but does those green apple suckers really well.

WF Green Jolly Candy - If I wanted to make an apple jolly rancher, this would be the one I’d reach for. It’s about six times more potent than CAP Green Apple Hard candy, I don’t get acetone or any other off notes, and it has tart bite to it that’s closer to jolly rancher than sucker, and it has a balance of tartness and sweetness along with that glossy sticky hard candy body. Definitely has some sucralose in there. Be really careful with the concentration on this one. It starts to get a little chemical and soapy on me at 3% and I imagine just gets worse from there. But that’s okay, because it’s full flavored at 2%.

FLV Sour Apple - I don’t know how they’ve done it, but this is legitimately sour, like make you pucker a little sour, does a better job of sour than any of the supposedly sour additives out there, which are usually just malic acid. I don’t know what this is, but doesn’t taste like that. I feel it along the jaw like I’ve just eaten a sour patch kid. Sourness is its primary characteristic, but there’s some sweet jolly rancher-ish green apple behind it, though it’s relatively soft and seems even like it really needs to be filled in with another green apple for a full-on green apple flavor. It’s also thin, to the point that it seems like it might have a thinning effect on other flavors, not much body, and very slightly grassy at a single flavor at 2% behind that soft jolly rancher. It’s a little harsh, too, but that seems like a small price to pay for a sour vape. 1% or less is plenty to add a bit of sour to other fruits, like https://alltheflavors.com/recipes/69073#lic_her_ish_by_digitaldrops

2 points
 
by RumPirate613over 5 years agoMissing One Flavor

That’s diarrhea you know lol

2 points
 
by frings_demiseover 5 years ago

> WF Green Jolly Candy

Is this the same thing as listed as WF Green Hard Candy on BCF or something different?

1 points
 
by ID10-Tover 5 years agoWinner: Best Recipe of 2019 - Counter Punch

Same

4 points
 
by FieldGreensover 5 years agoMissing One Flavor

WF Strawberry Cheesecake- Tested at 3%- after hearing all the hype about this flavor, I had to pick it up. I had very high hopes here, maybe too high I suppose, as this is one of my favorite profiles. It lacked the creaminess of cheesecake I was looking for. It’s definitely strawberry cheesecake, but more strawberry than cheesecake. The cheesecake was thin, and didn’t have great mouthfeel, like eating a supermarket cheesecake. A bit dry, and left me wanting. Nice strawberry, sweet and ripe though. I could definitely see use for this in a recipe, but it’s not the standalone I was hoping it would be.

3 points
 
by Denske203over 5 years ago

GL (Great Lakes Flavors) - Cherry tested @ 3% & 4% It is reminiscent of a ludens cough drop at 3%, relatively thick and sticky, but surprisingly rounded and bold for only 3%. At 4% the flavor is more even more thick, sticky, and in your face. One small downside, at 4% by itself as the flavor fades after you exhale, it leaves a sticky lingering cherry flavor that by itself reminded me slightly of the aftertaste of nyquil. Despite that, I believe in a mix this will be easily eliminated. This flavor can be found at diy-ejuice dot com.

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