Hello! I know a ton of people have run in to this problem and I am one of them, I've read as much info as I could on DIY-ing after this disaster, I've been vaping for 3 years and I've never made something more disgusting myself. For the majority of my vaping time I bought others DIY juices and they seemed to be great, later on started vaping nicotine salts out of pods with production juices, got bored of that and wanted to go back to rebuildables. Now I use a Tesla WYE 85w with Augvape Intake Dual RTA. Me and my friend decided to give DIY a try, in our country we only can get one-shots that just weren't doing it for us, so we bought some TFA/CAP aromas and gave it a a shot, but it turned out awful. We also used a premix VG/PG/Nic that was 40/60 3mg nicotine. The Recipes we USED:

ALL THE RECIPES WERE MADE IN 100ML BATCHES

https://e-liquid-recipes.com/recipe/121795

· Bavarian Cream (TPA) 4%.
· Cheesecake (Graham Crust) (TPA) 5%
· Strawberry (Ripe) (TPA) 10%
· Sweet Cream (TPA) 4%
· Vanilla Custard (TPA) 3%

This one steeped for 2 weeks, tastes awful [Learned that overflavoring is just a big mistake] I can't taste pretty much anything, the strawberry tastes like a rotting one, there might be a hint of cheesecake/vanilla.

https://e-liquid-recipes.com/recipe/127149/Mikes%20Melons%20%28Cuttwood%20Monster%20Melon%20Clone%29

· Cantaloupe (TPA) 5%
· Mango (TPA) 5%
· Papaya (TPA) 5%
· Sweetener (CAP) 1%

This one tasted amazing at the start, we steeped it for about 2 weeks and the flavor faded, the only thing I could taste was cantaloupe, no sight of mango or papaya.

https://e-liquid-recipes.com/recipe/343324/Neptunes%20Nectar%20clone

· Banana Cream (TPA) 5%
· French Vanilla (CAP) 1,75%
· Strawberry (Ripe) (TPA) 8%

This one also turned out quite bad, at first there was some strawberry, after a 2 week steep there was no hint of french vanilla nor strawberry, tasted purely of banana cream [I don't like banana flavored things in general so this is also a big factor, but my friend doesn't mind it and still agreed that this turned out bad]

https://e-liquid-recipes.com/recipe/2173415/Jam%20Monster%20Blueberry%20-%2099.9%25%20Clone

· Blueberry Jam (CAP) 6%
· Cereal 27 (CAP) 4,50%
· Golden Butter (CAP) 7,50%
· Super Sweet (CAP) 3%

This one was the best out of all of them, it was too sweet for me, but my friend enjoyed it, this actually had a flavor profile, I could feel the CAP Cereal 27/Golden Butter and the Blueberry Jam. The only note from me that I'd use 1% of Super Sweet

https://e-liquid-recipes.com/recipe/454944/Drapple%20juice

· Apple (TPA) 5%
· Cotton Candy (10% EM/Ethyl Maltol) (TPA) 2%
· Dragonfruit (TPA) 5%
· Koolada (TPA) 1%

This one wasn't too bad either, you could taste the apple and a hint of "wild berry taste" i'd say, but not Dragonfruit, this wasn't too bad to vape, but wouldn't mix it again, after this I learned that EM kills some flavors etc. so this might have been our mistake

https://e-liquid-recipes.com/recipe/1229116/MilkyO%27s%20Milkman

· Caramel (Original) (TPA) 4%
· Double Chocolate (Dark) (TPA) 1%
· French Vanilla Deluxe (TPA) 0,50%
· Graham Cracker (Clear) (TPA) 5%
· Marshmallow (DX) (TPA) 8%
· Whipped Cream (TPA) 2%

This one started out weak, we tasted it SNV and put it away for 2 weeks, after that it seemed amazing for like 2 days, 3 days passed after vaping it and this recipe turned to hell, the flavor itself changed 180 degrees, at first you could taste the caramel,cracker,dark chocolate, but then all of that dissapeared and all we could taste was warm sugary air.

https://www.99juices.com/recipes/2500/

· TFA - Cinnamon Sugar Cookie 1%
·  TFA - Apple Pie 10%
· TFA - Bavarian Cream 3%
· TFA - Sweet Cream 2%
·  TFA - Vanilla Custard 4%

This one started out very strong on the cinnamon sugar cookie side, after a 2 week steep it got a little bit better with A LITTLE of apple pie flavor, added sweetener to it and it made it a bit more bearable, but still nothing that I'd mix again.

>Hope the notes help out a bit on the juices that we mixed, all credits go to those who created them, it just might be us and I am not saying that the recipes are bad in any way.

Our biggest mistake was going in to this blindly, we didn't do a lot of research before commiting to these recipes because we always would use one-shots, after the failure I invested a ton of time in to DIY and the mistakes people make, but the biggest question is: Most of these recipes have feedback to them, for some they just taste out of this world, meanwhile all we got is a pile of dissapointment. Yes we took recipes that were overflavoured, yes we didn't read about flavour profiles and etc. But how can people say that there are their daily vapes, can our taste buds differ that much? I'm probably a strawberry mute myself and all I get is sweetness out of strawberries or a flavour of a rotting one. Another question would be, can a VG/PG premix be bad/carry a muting. I want this to work out because I just can't afford buying Premium E-juices. Any help/recipes/criticism would be highly appreciated.

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TL;DR:

Made juices, some of them were overflavored, some of them seemed fine, and all of them pretty much ended up being muted. Tried it on RDAs/RTAs/Subohm/Mesh RTA still tasted bad no matter the wattage/hardware. Looking for tips to carry on with DIY-ing without having to worry about just splashing around money on things I don't even enjoy vaping.