Afternoon DIY-ers! I'm very new on this world as a whole, both vaping and into DIY. This subreddit has helped me A LOT by just browsing on it, and I noticed there's a few flavors missing. Even though I might not be a natural and precise reviewer, I'd like to put my little grain of salt on some flavors I've seen little to no reviews at ~~all.~~

Again, pardon if some flavor descriptions fell short, but I'll do my best. I'd love any feedback if possible. And hopefully I can be more descriptive and experienced with more practice.

Without further do, I'll put my specs on the used gear before the flavors:

Mod: SOB Styled mech mod, 18650 hybrid tube.RTA: Vandy Vape Kylin Mini V2

Coil (Average): SS 316L 26GA, 6 loops, 3.5mm. Aprox. 0.7 ohms. Between 22W and 15W.

All flavors are at a 70% VG 30% PG ratio.

Flavor #1: River Pacific Cooler, 8%. Tested at 18W.

Steeped at 3 days, it does tastes like one of those juice packs on a kiddie lunch bag. Pacific Cooler as a flavor is not very popular here in South America, so the flavor is a bit generic, but the artificial juice can easily be felt, both for better or worse. Feels like a faint mix of kiwi and cherries straight out of the nice plastic pack. When drawing in, the juice is more predominant, and when exhaling the flavor, the artificial flavoring is the main note, but not for long.

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Stepped at 10 weeks, it looses a lot of the frutal flavors. Instead of a juice pack, now the flavoring resembles more of a cough syrup. Only the plastic/artificial taste lingered, which is felt more on the inhale than blowing it away, and the aftertaste lingers a bit. Definitively a lot more than when steeped for days.

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Flavor #2: River Lemon Lime Soda, 8%. Tested at 40W.

Steeped at 3 days, it tastes like a good, slightly strong lemonade with a very gentle carbonated hint, gentle but it does feels like a soda. The lemon flavor is brief but strong enough. The carbonated bit lingers a little longer despite being gentle and smooth.

Stepped at 10 weeks, it feels more like a half-natural lemonade than a soda. The carbonated flavoring can only be felt on a strong inhale, with a LOT of airflow. Had to open the Kylin air wide to feel the carbonated bit, and was even more subtle and weaker than in days. Doesn't lingers at all on the aftertaste like when steeped for days. The lemon itself is way smoother and even sweeter, not as strong as steeped for days but lingers for longer. The lemon also feels a bit like a lemon cake/pie/sweet than a lemon soda with the extra sweetness it got on the steeping.

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Flavor #3: Flavor Monks Raspberry, 6%. Tested at 21W.

Steeped at 4 days, it has a very caramellized flavoring, definitively feels more like a candy rather than a natural raspberry. Really sweet but brief. Very close to a taffy but with little to no bitter/tangy aftertaste you can find on a taffy (see next flavor).

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Steeped at 10 weeks, the flavor gets more unique and stands out better. It gains a really good "deep, smooth" draw, resembling more of a natural, ripe raspberry. Still has a slight sweet candy side note, but not as strong as when steeped for days.

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Flavor #4: River Blue Raspberry Taffy, 8%. Tested at 18W.

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Steeped at 4 days, the raspberry itself is more of a side note. The bittersweet/tangy note of the taffy itself, mostly the tangy bit is definitively the main note here. The tangy side is in between the bittersweet adn the raspberry itself, more prominent in the intake, but when blowing out and the aftertaste the bittersweet, mostly the bitter side comes more in light, gets quite an aftertaste for a while. Clearly a candy.

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Steeped at 10 weeks, it has an extremely similar flavoring to Flavor Monks Raspberry above, in days. Had to taste it several times to make sure it was not the cotton mixing the flavors. The very little difference is that a slight bitter aftertaste lingers for longer like a taffy, but it's not for long, maybe a second or even less at most. A tiny bit sweeter, not as strong but a bit smoother. Extremely similar the two.

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Flavor #5: Euro Flavor Cigar Dominican Republic, 8%. Tested at 25W

Side note: Maybe too much %. For not being the very first flavors I tried, and being in the vaping world for less than a week, this is the first flavor it made me cough hard. It's way stronger than expected, or what I looked around on the recommended %.

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~~Steeped at 10 weeks, it tastes... awful. Feels like a charcoal full of cinnamon, oregano, and some other strong spices. First flavor it gave me a really hard and unexpected throat hit, but it feels extremely burnt, like licking charcoal. Had to double check both cotton and coil and they were good. Has a very strong taste of both smoke(d) and either cinnamon or pepper. Best way I could describe it is as of church incense, right in the tongue.~~

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~~Steeped at 5 days, the burnt/charcoal flavoring is not as strong as when steeped for weeks, but it's still strong enough, and doesn't lingers on the aftertaste as much as well. The spices is definitively a lot harder with days, and almost linger as much as with weeks. Maybe a good flavor if you are looking for throat hit, but maybe too bitter.~~

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EDIT 28/7: Euro is a bit more tolerable when I accidentally dilluted it with Thai Apple. ~~To go with this flavor again, it's recommended NOT GO ABOVE 4%. 5% if you want a throat hit but the charcoal taste might hit too.~~ Still incense but more tolerable.

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EDIT 31/7: I discovered the charcoal/pepper was a burnt coil. Still tastes like church incense but it's a lot more bearable now. 8% is fine for a mildly strong Christian church incense smell/taste. I'd give the second batch, now 13 days steeped, a 4.5/10 in terms of incense intensity.

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Was about to test Thai Apple, but I still feel the Euro Cigar stuck on the pallate with how strong it was. Might try and test more flavors later today if I can.

Hope the reviews is enlightening enough for future picks. Won't be my last review so hopefully the upcoming ones can be better and more detailed. Thank you for the guides DIY, and I hope everyone makes good juices soon. Peace!