Hi all, first thanks, I posted this before leaving for a work trip, hoping it would catch, and am glad to see it did.
Just came back home and tested the stuff.
.5% FA Honey
1% FA Lemon Sicily
Thanks man, I tried your suggestion.
Knowing my honey, my test was with 0.1%, and while I get where you're coming from (honey + black tea + sicily) the added honey in my case, even at this lower concentration, turned everything into a wax candle on which one has gnawed.
Lemon sicily might have done something, but it was hard to tell, so I made a test with 0.5% Lemon Sicily alone. Not that great either, I'm afraid. But not your fault, just mine, I should have been more precise in what the recipe already did, what I thought it lacked etc, but also didn't want to clog the subject of the thread and leave room for out of the box suggestions.
Sicily made the recipe lose its roundness (reason I added the MTS) which I think is very important to preserve with floral aromas, and the acidic aspect shifted the taste to something borderline "chemical/scented cleaning product", which is easy since the original taste is already pretty weird to begin with.
* As a side note, if anyone wanted to try that recipe, when you mix the aromas, and just after adding the fresh cream (even worse if you swap for Tres Leches for example) it well smell like puke. That's when you must keep your faith. Milk and violet are enemies at first but with a few hours of maceration, they get along just fine.
How about adding Gin?
http://the-bitter-truth.com/liqueurs/creme-violette/
(see the Aviation Cocktail recipe)
You see, this is why I started this thread. Thanks HIC. I hadn't thought about alcohol, at all.
Tried with 0.5% Gin, it's tasty, interesting. Surprising even, because alcohol and violet move the whole recipe towards the fragrance realm, almost like vaping a perfume, but a fruity one. Not a liquor, a perfume. Hard to describe.
Because YOLO, I pushed further in this direction, and swaped the Gin for 0.05% Pine Tree (super strong flavor) (
generic french brand for those interested) , and the result was: sitting in a sauna, while drinking a cup of tea into which one would have poured a dash of Chanel (I already poured Chanel in my coffee, and that's what it reminded me of, one can taste that there is something but one mainly tastes coffee, maybe is it even just the smell that suggests the change in taste)
It might seem weird but I'm quite pleased with this because it's really hard to enjoy a vape outside of the sugary field, and this recipe, even if not perfect, begins to touch something else.
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