WEEK 63
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u/saspi25 on Brazilian Coffee - (WF) Wonder Flavors @ 0.5%-1,5%
Steeping around 3days give or take
Straight black roasted coffee.Just a topnote without any creamy base.This one is pretty linear. At .5% this works as an additional subtle coffee note in the mix , more than 1% its more forward.Over 1,5% i get burned offnotes.
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Tried a bunch of Caramels.
TFA Caramel Cappuccino is really more of a chemical weapon than a flavor. I only put one drop in a 20ml and it was still powerful. That’s nuts. It’s got an authentic milky cappuccino flavor with sweet caramel, with just mild hints of skunk spray, raw meat, and onion juice, but it’s so dangerously potent. My whole mixing room reeks of this now.
SC Caramel Cream Puff - Burnt and rank. There is a nice sweet cream hiding in there, but the most forward part of this is burnt microwave caramel popcorn and what is I guess supposed to be some bakery something here that tastes like fried mushroom.
SC Caramel - Burnt and yucky. As soon as I tasted this I knew I’d tasted it before and it took me a minute to place the source of that familiarity. It tastes like the smell in the air of slightly burnt Pop Secret brand microwave caramel popcorn.
SC Caramel Mocha - tastes burnt popcorn-like and skunky, with some sweet caramel and cocoa more as afterthoughts partially hidden by that nastiness. Also hints of some weird, sour bakery in here, like a moldy biscuit.
SC Caramel Candy - clearly has a Werther’s-like sweet caramel candy body and light butteriness in there, but for whatever reason, right on top, there’s strong amount of burned popcorn and skunk spray. Like getting sprayed by a skunk while burning popcorn and eating a Werther’s.
WF Milk Caramel Candy - foul, nauseating stuff. I do get caramel or brown sugar, I do get a rich buttery milky finish, but it’s all covered in but it’s all covered in nasty, kinda like barf but more like blue cheese. It’s caramel covered blue cheese.
HC Caramel - Also terrible, tastes like brown sugar plus cherry, complete with the sharp chemical edge you get with some brown sugar flavors and the new vinyl shower curtain you get with many bright red candy cherry flavors.
CAP Caramel V2 - Another one that tastes like cherry, but rather than brown sugar plus cherry, it tastes like maple plus cherry, and I don’t get that plastic cherry off note from it, just a bizarre fruitiness that tastes more like cherry than any other fruit.
HC Caramel Butter does mostly taste like caramel and butter, but the butter tastes movie-theaterish and there's a bit of sourness to it, like the movie theater butter is past it’s prime.
HC Salted Caramel 1- tastes like hot metal, like leaving a pan on the stove. There’s an undercurrent of sweetness there but it’s mostly just like burning metal.
MB Melty Caramel - is caramel-tasting, but it’s a bit dry and powdery upfront, and there’s a sour undercurrent to it beneath its powdery sweetness, like there’s probably some butyric acid in there. It is creamy in the finish, but that’s also where it’s more sour.
VT Caramel Mocha The caramel part is wonderfully rich, sweet, and sticky and perfect, and I wish they sold it separately from the mocha part. I’m not really getting much chocolate out of the mocha, just coffee, and that coffee has just a hint of that funky skunky burnt popcorn flavor.
INW Caramel it tastes kind of like the scorched sugar on top of a creme brulee, but not the whole sugar crust, just the very top, most scorched part, and maybe it was a little over-scorced? Burnt, basically. Like burnt sugar.
TFA Caramel - This is very weird. It tastes more like smoked vanilla than caramel. It’s not very sweet. There’s a ton of vanilla and it’s also very smoky-tasting. Thick mouthfeel and depth but a weird, waxy, almost plasticky lingering finish.
CAP Caramel - tastes like maple syrup. Or maybe half caramel syrup (like the kind you’d add to a coffee drink) and half maple syrup? Maybe something that could be used it to give a more sweet, syrupy body to a maple flavor needs it?
TFA Caramel Original - mostly tastes like a rich caramel sauce with butter and cream and good bit of vanilla, but I also get a strong maple off note from it. Not at all a bad tasting thing to me, as off notes go, but it tastes like something I might add to something like a maple-nut candy vape rather than a caramel. Maybe the maple can be covered up in a mix, but it doesn’t taste like it could, it’s pretty strong.
TFA Dulce De Leche Caramel - Another mapley caramel, but in this one the maple not nearly as prominent. Neither is the vanilla. There’s a bit of a burnt sugar edge to it, but it’s light and seems like it could be covered up in mix more easily than some of the other more burnt caramels. It also has a bit of a dairy milk cream to the base. It’s a very mild flavor overall.
CC Salted Caramel - Not actually salted, something about about it tastes a little strange, kind of chemical, like an attempt was made, but not actually salty. It did make me thirsty like something salted would, if that counts. Sticky sweet and tastes like a lighter caramel, but a little on the thin and dry side. No butteriness.
FW Caramel Candy - like a slightly overcooked Werther's, as if someone put a Werther's in a toaster oven for a minute or two. It’s very sweet and a little thick and creamy-tasting like the candy but that slightly acrid burnt sugar is annoying.
TFA Caramel Candy - Not burnt, but watered down. Has a very slight but strange woody spiciness as well. Tastes like a Werther's caramel-flavored candy for the most part. Or like if there was such a thing as Werther’s-flavored water, and you had some wood chips in that for whatever reason. It’s bright, light on flavor (not a very bold flavor, fairly subtle, giving it that watered down quality), and oddly not all that sweet, but it has some of that slight buttery richness like the candy and a noticeable vanilla.
FA Caramel is sweet and kinda halfway between caramel and brown sugar. Maybe caramel powder or something like that? It’s got like a very sharp brown sugar flavor that hits first and then a sweet something like caramel finish, with just a hint of something kind of buttery in the middle. Very dry throughout. Not smooth.
FLV Caramel tastes like raw brown sugar, with just a light hint of buttery flavor hiding in there somewhere making it richer.
VT Salted Caramel - Not actually salted. A much darker caramel, with a burnt sugar edge. It’s got a kind of almost smokey, almost coffee-like acridity to its top end but a sweet caramel base, with a moderately rich, almost creamy feel to it. It’s almost like you took a torch to a Werthers’ very briefly. Has some depth and lingering sticky sweetness.
VT Scorched Caramel - leads with a smokey scorched sugar note. It’s on top of a sweet but notably dry, dark caramel. It’s got a thick full depth to it despite the dryness. It’s not buttery at all.
HS Caramel some separation between a dry dark caramel/brown sugar flavor very much on top of a thin cream. The caramel is dark a bit dry, dry enough to have some scratchiness to it at first, and that cream finish was sweet and smooth and thick but wasn’t particularly milky, rich, or buttery.
LA Caramel Flat, very one-dimensional, a little too brown sugary for full-on caramel, but there’s a lovely richness to it like caramel sauce has, and it is like yummy dark sweetness.
WF Caramel Rice Crispy Treat - Not crispy. Not even ricey, really, just a sweet buttery caramel marshmallow flavor with some kind of cerealeque bakery accent in there.
WF Caramel Butter 6% - Soft, sweet, and smooth. Medium thickness and very buttery taste without a whole lot of butter-richness, and not quite dark or bold enough to be anything but a quite undercooked soft caramel.
FW Salted Caramel No salt, but tastes like caramel. Rich-tasting and a little creamy and buttery but not super-thick or even as thick as I want it to be. Smooth. No off notes, other than a slight, vague, intermittent nuttiness where there should be more sweetness. Nowhere near as sweet by itself as I want caramel to be, but easy to fix with sweetener or sweeter flavors.
You’re doing Gods work brother. Thank you for taking all these hits for the team so we don’t have too.
You’re welcome! But I want to reiterate, no one should let any notes by me substitute for trying their own flavors and making their own notes. I only hope they help people decide which flavors they want to try and which ones they want to avoid.
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NR Lemon is a nice clean, fresh, slightly zesty lemon. Unfortunately like many lemons, it does fade within a couple of weeks.
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PUR Lemon Sicily is more of a lemon juice than whole lemon, but on the bright side very little fading after 3 weeks.
Equal parts of the above (2% of each) make a pretty damn good smooth & juicy lemon.
Blueberry - (HS) Hangsen @ 2%
Steep 1day
Candy blueberry with a lot of sweetness.This reminds me alot of the blueberries, used in hard candy/lollipops.Very prominent flavor and can definitely work alone in a mix
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Roasted Pecans & Cream - (WF) Wonder Flavors @ 2%
Steep 3days
This is more of a creamy mocha top note.I dont get any nuttiness of it.I can see this being used in coffee/tiramisu/bakeries and wherever a mild coffee note might be needed
OOO white chocolate peppermint bark @5%
OOO flavors have been hit or miss for me lately, but this one knocks it out of the park. I did a side by side comparison to LB white chocolate peppermint (which I adore) for reference.
LB WCP: the peppermint can be slightly oily in taste and when using above 6% you start to lose the white chocolate flavor.
OOO WCPB: the peppermint is way closer to a candy cane even down to the slight sugary sensation you get from it. The white chocolate in it comes across on both the inhale and exhale with a richer creaminess to it.