Hey, I've been compiling a list of flavours with a short description, their % ranges, properties etc. It's info from Noted, flavour reviews, my own testing notes... all sorts of places. Anyway, I thought it may be of use to other people too. Vishousness' Starting % List is really useful to me and i totally nicked the idea from them!
It was originally only meant for my own reference, so it may have a couple of notes to myself and I haven't cited any of the info. I got it all from places and people whose opinion I trusted. I hope everyone who unknowingly contributed doesn't mind me posting it publicly.
I hope this link works!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ufny7dcn3ue1m1m/STARTING%20%25%20LIST.docx?dl=0Testing
Cheers guys
I added it to the wiki so it would be more accessible :)
https://link.diyejuice.org/start
Thanks for putting it together and sharing it!
Oh cool. Thanks so much. This may be a really stupid question, but I've never shared anything with Dropbox. As I update it will the version i linked automatically update?
Just curious, what does CAP mean?
CAP stands for Capella, one of the companies that creates these flavors... Later in the list you will see FA (Flavour Art), FE (Flavor Express), FLV (Flavorah), FW (Flavor West), INW (Inawera), TFA (The Flavor Apprentice), and a few others.
Oh thank you so much for the clarification. I've never attempted to make my own as it seems so 'you need a chemist degree to understand it and get percents right' hard.
But I'm really wanting to go the diy route. There are a few flavors I really want to mimic as close to 100% as I can but sadly, there's ingredient secrets we'd never learn annnnnd it seems the oddest flavors are added TO make the flavor (for example that is just made up but Is probably true: the juice you want to recreate tastes like strawberry. Just strawberry. But to diy you have to add some pine flavor and licorice and nutmeg and chocolate and steak flavor...... Like I said, totally made up BUT I've seen flavor ingredients that make zero sense at all haha)
So I may not be able to remake my faves 100% and that's a problem. I dislike 98% of the flavors out there because they either taste like nothing or taste nothing like the description.
I've found vape bliss with Pinup Betty, the world famous Vapor Lock (the blue original flavor) and the sadly discontinued WFFL blueberry.
All other blueberry waffle brands are just not even close to WFFL flavor. None. I'd give up everything to be able to recreate it.
I know what yer sayin’... I also disliked 98% of the commercial flavors. And you probably won’t be able to remake your old favorites. But to be honest, when I go back and smoke my old favorites I don’t dig ‘em anymore. I ended up finding a shit-ton of new flavors that are better. Yer Right though - there Is a learning curve. For me, it’s a great way to waste time until they let us out of the apartment in NYC. Hehe. Either way, good luck!!
I think DIY is as complicated as you want to make it. Depends on how deep you want to get into it. It's really, really easy to make recipes other people have already created in ATF or ELR. But there's a fair bit to learn of you want to make your own, more complex recipes. That's a big reason i love it though - I'll never stop learning new things.
Have you seen any of DIY or DIE on YouTube? There's loads of straight forward videos specifically for beginners that cover everything you need to know. As well as more advanced stuff. I think he has a beginner playlist. (Sorry i can't directly link it on my annoying tablet!)
I found a good way to start is to just make other people's recipes for a while, just buying the flavours you need for those recipes. When you want to start making your own stuff research the flavours you're going to buy. Don't choose just based on the name of the flavour. There's a lot of bad flavours and flavours that don't taste like what they're called. If you wanted to learn about flavours Noted is a great place to start. If you search 'Noted Playlist' on YouTube it'll come up.
Also the journey to trying to 1:1 clone a juice is usually just a road to disappointment and frustration!