Just a general question here, to satisfy my own curiosity. I've noted many flavors come in regular and shisha versions. When I google shisha I find:
"Shisha usually contains tobacco which is sometimes mixed with fruit or molasses sugar. Popular flavours include apple, strawberry, mint and cola. Wood, coal or charcoal is burned in the shisha pipe to heat the tobacco and create the smoke."
That's for hookah smoking.
So if I were to buy a shisha strawberry would it have tobacco and/or molasses flavor as well ?
I notice Inawera sells several shisha flavors. Again, just wondering.
http://www.inaweraflavours.com/en/54-inawera-shisha-flavours
Shisha is the type of tobacco typically smoked out of a Hookah.
In my experience the Inawera Shisha flavors do not have any tobacco. Maybe some molasses syrupy sweetness, but I can't say I've tasted actual tobacco in any of them.
To me they just invoke the old shishas I bought when I had hookah nights in my back yard forever ago (the 2000s). They just had distinctly tacky candyesque notes to them. They were delicious, but so unevolved— the only depth to them was that they contained some tobacco. I always assumed the inawera flavors were an homage to this. I’m curious to know if this was actually the case though. I wish vaping were more like hookah smoking honestly. If I could reproduce it I would. I probably could actually.. if someone else isn’t already (I’m sure they are)
I'd say that the VapingZone Shisha/Hookah plus an Inawera Shisha flavor would probably get you pretty close to that.
The Shisha/Hookah flavor has that tobacco flavor and some of that candy note.
I am pretty sure the VZ Shisha/Hookah is just a rebrand, but I am not sure who the original maker is.
Only downside is it's not a cheap flavor.
This makes me want to build a vape hookah of my own. Wouldn't be that difficult...
The flavor would probably be all kinds of muted though... May require formulating a different kind of liquid, maybe max VG and with much stronger flavor composition. Or maybe a new type of liquid altogether...
And it would likely require a massive deck, like a quad coil, or big ass mesh...a Stream Crave Titan 41mm deck comes to mind, and it would be a juice. hawg. But it would lend itself well to dripping, since you'd be sitting around it anyway, and the ritual of dripping would translate well. Maybe more like pouring...
A large power source would likely be desirable in order to keep ramp time reasonable, maybe like something for a mid-range desktop computer, those have outputs rated in the 300-500W ballpark... On the positive side (ha), no need to constantly swap out batteries.
Yeahhh, it's all coming together.... -Mad scientist laugh-
Yeah when i googled I found out it has to do with hookah.
But what are flavor manufacturers referring to when they label a flavor shisha ? Just some added molasses maybe?
It's supposed to taste like a Shisha flavor. Like the wet tobacco for use in a Hookah. It's typically flavored.
But the Inawera stuff doesn't have tobacco flavor so you'd have to add your own if you wanted that.
Edit: Some other manufacturers flavors may have a tobacco note. I know the VapingZone Shisha/Hookah flavor does.
I'd think they've started adding shisha flavours to their line-up for the same reason they have all those tobacco flavours: they know Hookahs have become popular and are capitalizing on that market.
Just as cigarette smokers want a good tobacco flavour, anyone who's into (or wanting to quit) smoking a hookah will naturally want a choice of shisha flavored juices.
Difference of course is there's almost no way to create a realistic cigarette flavour, while shisha already has most the tobacco flavoring washed-out the leaves before being heavily flavoured with fruits etcetera, so shisha vape flavours are probably much more on-point for hookah smokers than those shitty tobacco flavours ever will be for us cigarette smokers.
Excellent question. So I've been a shisha fan for way too long and somewhat imagine my vape as mini, portable hookah
You're pretty much dead on. The products either use molasses or honey, in my experience
Now I can't imagine the famous double apple without that strong molasses flavor but I recall a strawberry one with honey I did like
I use a lot of shisha strawberry and ripe strawberry in my recipes and they add a lot and do somehow taste like real shisha so there must be something molasses they added. They tend to really fill out and compliment things like mango or lime. In fact it's hard to find a lime recipe without them or some strawberry.
I'd noticed on another thread someone was using both Mango and Shisha Mango. It's what prompted me to finally post the question as I'd been wondering for awhile. Shisha Strawberry seems pretty popular too. Thanks.
I have them a few years now Shisha cherry paired with alpine strawberry in daily use... They just are a flowery flavor of the fruits. More intense and have a perfume like taste like some starbuzz tobaccos.
Could you do a 45 second review on Shisha Cherry (INW I assume)?
What's a 45 second review? :)
I just mean a quick review, off the top of your head, how would you describe it? How do you use it? If you have more than 45 seconds worth of thoughts on it, by all means, please share. Cherry is a hard flavour to chase/create and I see only 3 recipes on ATF for this flavour, so I'm thinking not many people have this in their daily rotation.
When o first started vaping I tried an apple flavor and it tasted almost exactly like smoking a Nargile (aka Shisha / Hopla / Waterpipe)
Kinda weird that they specifically have Shisha flavors although it does sorta have a distinct flavor.. the best way I can explain it is sweet charcoal fruit lol
Hi. I think they are really versatile flavors that go exceptionally well with tobaccos, but they also work for other profiles. Tbh, I‘d guess that „shisha“ is just a marketing description of the given profile. By the way, VTA (Vape Train Australia) also has some very good Shisha flavors.
There are tobacco free versions of shisha to smoke though I don´t know what they use as an alternative, but the biggest risk of shisha is not even the tobacco itself, it´s the coal that´s used to burn it because it releases high levels of carbon monoxide.