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FLV Smooth Vanilla [flavor review]
submitted over 3 years ago by kuri_sanTouDiketones, Schmiketones

⭐ FLV Smooth Vanilla       ( Overall Grade: C- )

|||||| |:---:|:---:|---|:---:|:---| |Hardware|RDA / RTA||Sweetness|🔵 🔵 🔵 ⚪ ⚪ ⚪ ⚪ | |Style|DTL||Juiciness|🔵 🔵 🔵 🔵 ⚪ ⚪ ⚪ | |Concentration|.1% to .2%||Mouth Feel|🔵 🔵 🔵 🔵 🔵 ⚪ ⚪ | |Steeped|1 - 6 days||Throat Hit|🔵 🔵 ⚪ ⚪ ⚪ ⚪ ⚪ |

||| |:---:|:---| |🔺PROS🔺|Extremely potent| |🔻CONS🔻| Expensive AF| |🔸TAGS🔸|: 💥 Very Potent :: 🤢 Off-Notes :: 👿 Bully :: 🏷 Potent :| |🔸USES🔸|: Accent Note :: Supporting Flavor :|


  • TARGET FLAVOR
    Bright sweet vanilla with a full profile of rich and smooth notes. This flavour is a strong/potent vanilla flavour so tread lightly, perfect for using with creams, bakeries, ice cream, frosting/cake, and tobacco mixes. It is expensive, and precious but when you consider the amount you need to use and the overall quality, the price point is a non-factor.

  • ACCURACY :   🔴 🔴 🔴 ⚪ ⚪   CLOSE - BUT COULD BE BETTER


🔹 Flavor Description 🔹
Citadel RDA SS316L 3*28/38 3mm ID spaced 5/6 wrap. Testing at 0.2%

Day one - Not much vanilla. Faint sweetness, tastes like mild fruitcake with some cherry off notes. Leaves a plastic taste on the tongue.

Day 3 - Fruit coming out more. Soft vanilla notes. A slight nutty exhale/aftertase like almonds or maybe pistachios.

Day 6 - Pretty much the same, bit floral.

This may be better with more time or if I increased the percentage but I highly doubt it and my tester has run out. I would just expect more plastic fruitcake shower curtain.

🔹 Comments 🔹
I hear this flavor tastes like Tahitian Vanilla. I don’t know what that is except it’s some sort of fruity & floral vanilla. Not dark like vanilla beans, it’s more bright with floral notes. This flavor is extremely potent. Dilute it to 10% for best results. Recommended usage 0.1% to 0.2%.

Bonus recipe

Co. | Flavor | %
---|---|---- WF | Angel Cake (SC) | 1 FA | Corn | 0.15 WF | Fluffy White Cake (SC) | 1.75 FLV | Smooth Vanilla | 0.2 CAP | Super Sweet | 0.25 FA | Vanilla Cookie | 2 OOO | Vanilla Custard Cheesecake | 1.5

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3 points
 
by bucko_fazooover 3 years ago

for MTL, I measure it as drops per 15ml total, when weighing in the PG.
3 drops, with 1.85 INW Shisha Vanilla, still overpowers the INW at 3 weeks with some off notes, but rounds out sometime between then and 5 weeks.
4 drops with 1.25 Shisha Vanilla is still a little off at 4 weeks, which is today, but it was unbearable 6 days ago and I wrote myself a nasty note about it which this post led me to reconsider, and I'm now more hopeful for that mix in another couple of weeks.

2 points
 
by kuri_sanTouover 3 years agoDiketones, Schmiketones

Thank you to u/duncanyoyo1 for sending me the bottle. This is definitely not the most versatile vanilla flavor but I can see it working well in a Sweedish Fish recipe for the plastic and fruit notes

3 points
 
by duncanyoyo1over 3 years agoMixologist

Yeah no problem. Misery loves company as they say.

This flavor to me is all off notes. No vanilla at all to speak of for me.

Even super low, like 0.05% it's just cherry plastic shower curtain.

That said, plenty seem to really enjoy this flavor.

2 points
 
by bmarieskiover 3 years ago

Real heavy on the plastic hey? 😂.. I didn't get that.. It seems to blend really well in my cream soda recipe

2 points
 
by kuri_sanTouover 3 years agoDiketones, Schmiketones

Solo, yes. I did mix it in with FLV Root Beer and it worked out well.

Co. | Flavor | %
---|---|---- FLV | Root Beer | 5 FLV | Smooth Vanilla | 0.15 CAP | Super Sweet | 0.25 TFA | Vanilla Custard | 1

You got a recipe for that cream soda?

2 points
 
by bmarieskiover 3 years ago

Cream soda https://imgur.com/a/TcFhnJF

Just keep in mind, it's still a work in progress.. This was only a V1.. Still needs some tweaking. And the "cola fizz" in the recipe is actually "cream soda" by "ooo". My elr app doesn't have ooo concentrates in their "directory of flavors"

1 points
 
by Space_Raisinover 3 years ago

ooo cream soda is my favorite

1 points
 
by bmarieskiover 3 years ago

That sounds good.. Flv root beer is my favorite

1 points
 
by kuri_sanTouover 3 years agoDiketones, Schmiketones

There’s a recipe with a cola flavor & root beer I want to try but I don’t have any colas and I think I lost the recipe

1 points
 
by bmarieskiover 3 years ago

How do you insert recipes on a table like that? Is that a reddit premium (or whatever it's called) feature? Or just something I'm not seeing?

2 points
 
by kuri_sanTouover 3 years agoDiketones, Schmiketones

You have to use “markdown”

> Click Here for a guide on formatting your recipe or, if you use ATF (All the Flavors) you can install this extension for Chrome or Firefox to automatically copy your recipe to markdown.

1 points
 
by 25c-nbover 3 years ago

>This flavor is extremely potent. Dilute it to 10% for best results. Recommended usage 0.1% to 0.2%.

So your saying if I buy FLV smooth vanilla, I need to make a solution of 90% PG to 10% FLV smooth vanilla, and use the new, dilute solution when mixing vape liquid (at about 0.1% - 0.2%) right?

3 points
 
by kuri_sanTouover 3 years agoDiketones, Schmiketones

I would especially if you’re making small batches like <10ml. If you dilute it to 10% you just move the decimal one digit to the right. 0.1% = 1% diluted

2 points
 
by 25c-nbover 3 years ago

Makes sense, basically just doing the total dilution stepwise, in 2 steps, instead of diluting by 3 orders of magnitude in a single step.

Edit: 3 orders of magnitude, not 2, derp

2 points
 
by kuri_sanTouover 3 years agoDiketones, Schmiketones

Not sure what that means. I dilute the flavor into a 10ml bottle once. Like when you order a 10ml flavor from Bull City. That’s my flavor bottle, just diluted.

2 points
 
by 25c-nbover 3 years ago

Sorry about my confusion! I should've just asked for quick clarification here about

>0.1% -> 1%

It's so clear to me now and seems just plain obvious what you meant, I'm a classic overthinker though, my apologies.

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