'2016 called, it wants it's flavour reviews back'. Yes I know, I know, but these are new to me, so might as well post them here.

Tried at 4%, 80/20 VG/PG on a wasp nano RDA. Steeped between 7 to 10 days. Labels were Chinese so may not translate exactly.

Rainbow Drops (TFA)

Fruit sweeties, some citrus and a touch of melon maybe. Juicy, mouthwatering, but there's something evil skulking around in the background. Did you ever try to stop biting your fingernails by coating them in that varnish stuff that makes you gag? At 4% this kind of reminds me of that a bit. My notebook says 'wax furniture polish'. I don't remember writing that.

Probably useful in very small doses to sex up a wider fruit mix, but as someone looking for a relatively small collection of concentrates that can do serious work in simple 2 or 3 flavour mixes, that's not really what I'm after. Will probably remain more or less untouched in the back of my cupboard until I die.

Berry Crunch Cereal (TFA)

This vapes like eating a Belvita breakfast biscuit, boring but somehow virtuous ('biscuit' is what we used to call cookies before America came along). I don't know how to explain it, but I felt healthier after trying this. An oaty, bone dry biscuit, with a touch of dried blueberry or maybe cranberry. I can use this. Weak and thin at 4%. It's not unpleasant at all, but there's little to interest or excite here. They should rename it 'Fruity Cardboard'.

Vanilla Swirl (TFA)

I'm a pleb who vapes almost exclusively for the nicotine, and was mainly using pods/AIOs before the world stopped, so everything I've mixed this year has mainly just been 2 concentrate 'recipes', either X+RY4 Double, or X+Bavarian Cream. I realised a few weeks back that I didn't actually really like Bavarian Cream, or cream in general, so this vanilla seemed like a decent option to easily enhance some single flavours. It's a pretty spot on artificial vanilla flavour, definitely more 'essence' than 'extract'. Reminds me of basically every cake my mum has baked for the last 30 years, and also of Mr Kipling's vanilla slices, back when they were considered posh. There's not much else to it, it's just... vanilla essence. I'll consider that a win at this point. This will be reordered and added to many of my other flavours until I get completely sick of it. I've also mixed it in with RY4 Double this morning in a move which could potentially bring my entire shitty system crashing down. We will see.

Fruit Circles (TFA)

The first few mls of this was like vaping an air freshener refill (and not even the fancy kind). Properly hateful. I ploughed on, hoping my senses would adjust to the initial shock and settle down, but the entire 8ml-long experience was thoroughly obnoxious. Every single last awful drop of it. I didn't even have to make any notes in my book, it's so perfectly unforgettable. Whatever the worst, most offensive word in your language is, chalk that up as a pretty accurate one-word description of this flavour... It's a cunt. Comfortably the worst single flavour I've ever tried. Had to scrub out my atomiser a good handful of times afterwards with hot soapy water. I think it's still tainted.

In short, absolutely fucking disgusting.

Green Apple (FM)

Very good green apple, might be my favorite. Lightly sweet and tart green apple. It's very bright, has a little bit of that peel and is decidedly green. Its refreshing and crisp like biting into a real green apple with out candy notes that I get from a lot of other green apples. No off notes period. Tested at 4%, SNV and vaped it over 3 days. I went through 90 ml of this stuff as a solo flavor.

Mango (FM)

After the green apple this was a let down. Its got a very light mango taste to it, but its also kinda creamy. It also doesn't really have any major sweetness to it. I can see this being a very useful mango to support other mangoes in a mango cream or a mango yogurt. Tested this at 4/5/6%, it didn't get any better, tried as SNV and then again after 2 and 3 days.

Blackberry (RF)

Off the shake I didn't like this, it's really odd I taste Unjuice at first and then I get a little blackberry. After 3 days the blackberry is very solid, but definitely needs support and the unjuice flavor has died down on the inhale. I can see this being useful in a mix as a blackberry accent flavor and I see how it would work in the trinity to brink in the nice dark blackberry base. It isn't very sweet, but I did sft FM Blackberry not too long before this and it just doesn't hold up against that. Tested at 2% as a SNV and after 3 days.

Sweet Betsy Cherry(FM)

Straight up Ludens Cough Drop and that is by no means a bad thing. The best tasting cough drops out there. I could see this being really useful in some kind of cherry slush, candy or cotton candy. I tested this at 5%, that was a mistake its almost sickly sweet at that %, but I can see this being pretty nice at 2-3% in a mix.

Strawberry Cheesecake(WF) (LB)

I was disappointed in this flavor, but I think that is only because that hype that surrounded it. Its not by any means a bad flavor, but I compared this side by side with LB Strawberry Cheesecake and it wasn't close for me. LB won outright and its a shake n vape. I tested the WF at 2% after 2 days and I felt like it was light on both the strawberry and the graham. I can see this in a mix and its might be better than LB in a mix. I would be very interested to see if somebody could make a strawberry cream cheese danish. The strawberry reminds me of the WF Strawberry(Baked), but on the light side.

The LB was just an all around great strawberry cheesecake single flavor. I tested this at 6% as both a shake and vape and every day over 5 days. It really didn't change at all, the graham cracker crust is present and forward, its a rich creamy cheesecake and I get a light strawberry from it. If anything maybe it could use some strawberry support which u/kittybit8 did really well in his 1 2 3 Strawberry Cheesecake Fluff.

Excuse the shitty descriptions.

I was going to try Fruit Circles, but hesitated because most of the cereal flavors are weird. Thanks for the save!

I don’t even want to know how you became familiar with the way furniture polish tastes...

I let the good times be Gin

FW Martini - Solid dry vermouth flavor, no gin. Only including it because people might go looking for gin in a flavor called “Martini” and be disappointed by this one, but can we just pause for a second and marvel at how cool it is that Flavor West of all places has an awesome and accurate vermouth concentrate? I get those complex herbal aromatics that are a bit floral without being perfumy, with a gentle, somewhat sour white wine base behind it. Slightly sweet in the finish. A little thin, but appropriate for a beverage. It opens up all kinds of cocktail possibilities (the Martini, the Manhattan, the Rob Roy, and maybe the elusive Negroni.) and you could easily bend it from a dry to a sweet vermouth and probably to a variety of similar aperitifs.

FM Gin & Tonic - It’s mostly tonic. A lot of authentic tonic, but missing some lime and also really want to add cooling to it, and well as more gin. That tonic water bitterness overwhelms some of the nuance of the gin but the basics are there - it’s boozy and juniper berryish with a little bit of herbal fun behind it. There’s some more citrus just gin and it’s more limey than orangy citrus, but still missing that the real wedge or two of lime that I want here. Pretty sweet, but so is G&T in a low-key way. I want to Polar Blast so that if it interferes with anything it will be Tonic and it won’t mess with the gin as much as WS-23 would.

FM Vero Gin - Gin banana. I’m not sure what’s going on here. It’s supposed to be gin and raspberry which sounds delightful, instead I am getting gin and banana. Same wonderful gin on top, but the base tastes like a banana. A somewhat thick and natural, if slightly green, banana. It’s weird and wrong.

FM Gin in Paris - Deeply weird to me. It’s a nice enough vape, but just so, so weird. FM Says “Our best gin, combined with pure orange based on a soft banana flavor.” So, unlike the Vero Gin, it is supposed to have banana in it. It’s supposed to be sort of like mixing gin and a banana into an orange julius. WTF. And it does have plenty of banana, but it’s an entirely different banana than the green banana I get from Vero Gin. It’s predominantly gin and boozy junipery gin upfront but it tastes like a ripe and creamy banana with a hint of banana candy after that and little twist of orange zest on the end. It’s fun and interesting, but Why? And what any of that has to do with Paris, I have no idea. What to do with this flavor, I have no idea.

FM Red Gin - Lots of syrupy sweet cherry fruit drowning out the gin quite a bit but the resulting flavor is kind of nauseating. FM says it’s dark cherries, but it tastes like bright red candy cherry to me. Maybe Maraschino cherry syrup. I’m not getting any of those shower curtain vibes from it though, which makes me really interested in trying FM Cherry for a candy cherry if it's like this. Gin is there at first but faint and mostly juniper, then the herbal stuff lightly comes back around and makes it finish. It’s a pretty dense flavor and obnoxiously sweet overall, but the gin at the end cleans it up a bit. I would add more gin if you really wanted gin cherry candy but that's a strange thing to want.

FM Gin Orange - More Juniper forward boozy gin made with some bitter orange peel, as well as a sweeter orange finish. I’m missing the real OJ body here. It's not Gin & Juice, it's just gin made with a lot of citrus, and not as much herbaceous nuance, with maybe an orange slice at the bottom of the glass. I want more orange. But, orange is hard, and there are other oranges, and the orange that’s there is good, so I can work with it, if I want Gin and Juice. It has to be an orange without too much peel though, because this already has peel a’plenty. Really think people are sleeping on a tiny dose of gin flavors to give fruit mixes some zing though, and this flavor is a reminder. Seems like a touch of it could really liven up a citrus mix both with the juniper and the orange peel and zest.

FM OMGin - A sweeter, more floral, smoother, less juniper-y, less-spicy gin with a light mixed berry base that tastes fancy AF. The juniper that’s there is brighter and less woody. Like if this was an actual gin, I could not afford it. Just boozy enough. Light mixed berry FA Forest Fruity-ish base tastes like mixed berries were steeped in gin. Just delightful, though it probably does not have as much versatility, I’m sure there are a lot of mixing applications where you wouldn’t want berries in your gin. But as a single flavor? Hell yes.

FA Gin - That’s mostly just juniper flavor. Which is of course the main thing with gin, but certainly not the only thing. It’s not even boozy, but it’s a little harsh, which I guess could substitute for boozy. Some odd sweetness on the tail end but I think that might just be VG poking through a thin, top-heavy flavor and contrasting with the evergreen flavor. Also it’s pretty dry, like it would definitely need something wetter like cucumber or cactus. But if you just want to add a little juniper to something to imply a little bit of gin, it’ll do. There’s a little bit of something lemony about the soft base here, not much, but maybe something to be aware of if you’re mixing gin and lemon you might not need as much lemon as you think you do. And it tastes like a tiny bit of it might do some interesting things to all sorts of fruits. It might be the secret ingredient you need to make a fruit really pop.

FLV Juniper Gin- Mostly juniper flavor, powerfully so, and it was nice of them to warn us about that right in the name. But a bit more complex, there are some other aromatics going on in there including herbal notes, a floral bit that leans toward lavender, a hint of peppery spice, and a touch of citrus. It’s a little sweeter than I’m looking for in a gin as a single flavor, but that might fade into a mix with other ingredients that are supposed to be sweet. Not dry, but not especially wet either. Doesn’t really have much of a boozy bite to it, but should still work for a bit of gin in a cocktail, especially if that boozyiness is coming from elsewhere. Smooth, in a way, but strong juniper all up in the sinuses. Shoving-Christmas-trees-up-my-nose level. The floral in this one runs a little detergent-y for me at 4%, but not at 2%, so I would keep it at 2% or lower. 0.25% appears to be just enough for a hint of that resiny juniper without going full gin or as full a gin as this gets. Tastes like it would be a super fun flavor to play with.

VT Botanical Gin - More floral and more spicy than other gins, with the juniper turned down quite a bit. Has some vague citrus. So more Bombay Sapphire than Beefeater or Tanqueray. Not necessarily better, but just depends on what kind of gin you prefer or are looking for. Bit boozy, maybe just enough. Sweeter than even FLV Juniper Gin but again, mix it with something and it might not matter that it’s too sweet as a single flavor, though I would definitely stick to sweeter cocktails. A little throaty but also somewhat mellow in flavor. Not at all dry, actually has a wetter mouthfeel.

FM Pure Gin - Hands down, the best (and it better be for what it cost me!). It’s more legitimately boozy than all the alternatives, but also a lot of complexity, and it’s wet. There’s some throat hit and it seems tied up with that booziness. It’s warm, like taking a shot of liquor, not a dry or chemically harshness. Realistic. It’s really just straight-up gin. I get a sharp kick of juniper berries upfront with a lot of neat stuff going on behind that. Some aromatic herbals like greens, specifically like peppery arugula, hints of orange peel, floral that’s more wildflower than the more lavender-ish floral in FLV. Sweetness is very mild and seems perfect for a straight gin. Nice body and depth here. Thick enough to be satisfying but thin enough for a beverage flavor.

Some SFTs from flavors which are not mentioned in the Wiki (tested on citadel 8x2+38Ni80 fused clapton ohming at 0,69 @ 35-40Watts and on a Skyfall 29+38x9+28+36Ni80 framed staple ohming at 0,32 @ 65-70Watts)

(FA)Apple Pie @ 2% steeped for 14days

Steep:3days

This is mostly a very nice graham crust flavor.At 3 days you get a slight sweet note (maybe thats the -kinda- apple to it on the exhale as well.

Def works with bakeries and i can see this replacing the graham crust in sweeter bakery recipes

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(CC)Banana Yogurt @ 2,5% steeped for 14days

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Steep SnV

Sour yoghurt with a medium body on the inhale with a nice ripe banana backend which lingers.I really like this one even as a single flavor.Def can be used in milkshake recipes with no additives considering the banana flavor

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(MB)Big Watermelon @ 5% steeped for 14days

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Steep SnV

Very nice realistic watermelon with a whiteish rind exhale and sweet fleshy watermelon on the inhale.Complete watermelon experience nowhere near the candyside.I can see it with ws23 to give you a full experience even solo.It might lack just a bit of prominence

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(VTA)Biscuit Base @ 1-8% steeped for 2 months

Steep around 8days

Dry, grain-forward digestive biscuit. Not all that rich or sweet.

There just isn’t much flavor here for me. I’d keep this firmly in the accent role to play around with and dry out punchier bakery bases.Over 2% it has a plastic offnote on the backend

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(LB)Sweet Raspberry @ 6% steeped for 14days

Steep SnV

It is a sweet n sour raspberry through all the vape.Very pleasant and pretty versatile.But at this percentage i see a lot of other berries beeing a better option.It doesnt stand out per se

Love the list, but I looked at entire list and rarely saw suggested percentages