Vaper's tongue/bad recipes/too soon to taste due to smoking??

[Autumnrstarr]

I have seen some threads touch base on a little bit of my issue, but I'd like to hear from others for my specific situation. I quit smoking black n milds exactly 1 year ago. Started vaping 12nic for about 2 weeks-got really sick bronchitis like symptoms. Used 6nic for about 2-3 months and symptoms subsided. I was able to taste the ejuice bought from the stores mostly, but I started to get vaper's tongue (I think). I wasn't drinking much water so I started drinking more. Then I discovered how to make my own ejuice. Over this year, I have experimented with different ratios and flavors and I switch up the flavors often, almost every tank. I have an xcube2 and tvf4 tank, quad coil. I went threw about 4 different tanks and tvf4 seems to help me taste better than any others. So, I'm thinking I could still have vaper's tongue, or maybe my recipes suck, or just recently seen that maybe the length of not smoking is still short effecting my taste buds. About a month ago, I bought an ejuice that I had previously liked from a store and it didn't taste the same as when I used to buy it before I started making my own. I have tried more VG, I have tried more PG, and it doesn't really seem to change the flavor. Here is a general recipe I make and use often. Please tell me what is wrong!!!

3% nic (100mg PG based nicotine)
60% PG
40% VG
12% dx cinnamon danish (PG based FlavourArt)

I alternate fruity and dessert but generally speaking flavor % is between 12-16. Most flavors are FlavourArt, Flavor West, and TFA. I also do blends and I continuously read on what % recommended for each flavor buto I have got to be doing something wrong!! I don't care about cloud, I'd prefer more taste than cloud.

 

[Huckleberried]

Moved ya to the DIY section, for opinions. My own, and I know this will sound ridiculous, but I wonder if TOO much change has your buds out of whack. When I'm sampling different flavors in a matter of a couple days, I get to where I can't taste them. I generally have only 2 flavors going, then sample a mix only occasionally, and haven't really lost taste in quite a while. I can have that same thing happen with tanks when I'm trying out new ones. They can produce flavors differently than my go-to tanks.

Have you thought about using a little less flavoring? That can sometimes help, too.

Hoping you get more opinions here.

 

[AndriaD]

You might be right that it's just too soon to taste too much, at that low a percentage of flavor. I started DIY when I'd been smoke-free about 5 months, because I couldn't really taste much from bought ejuice, and I hated paying that much for something I couldn't enjoy. My solution was in the form of "high-flavor mixing" -- the strawberry & cream recipe I developed when I started was mixed at around 30% flavoring -- and it tasted GREAT! I could actually TASTE it, instead of it being just a nice fragrance. Finally, when I had been smoke-free almost 2 yrs, it began to seem kinda icky, and too sweet.... so I lessened the sweetener, and started to slowly bring down the total percentage of flavoring -- but I still mix it at about 26% flavoring.

Check out the link in my signature, "My BEST Recipes (blog)" -- the strawberry & cream recipe at the top, I post in both its original form, at 30%-ish, and its most recent iteration, for those who don't need that much flavoring anymore, or just have more-keen tastebuds naturally. Some of us have more impairment in our sense of taste than others seem to, and it takes longer for a natural sense of taste to return, but the 30% flavoring overcomes that.

Andria

ETA: Also, do you actually mean 3mg nic? 3% nicotine is 30mg.

 

[Rin Vapes]

Flavour art at 12% is pretty high. It sounds like your tastebuds are over-loaded but these things are very hard to pin point. Everyone's flavor preference is slightly different. For example, I never used Flavour Art above 2%, regardless of the flavor. Whereas, I've seen other people mixing certain flavors from them 7% and higher. It seems crazy to me but to them it's great. Maybe try vaping unflavored for a little bit to try to reset your tastebuds and then revisit mixing at a lower percentage.

 

[brandon555]

I think they meant TPA's Cinnamon Danish.

In which case maybe 12% is just not enough flavoring if you're vaping it as a standalone. You could try boosting it with a complimentary flavor like Cinnamon Sugar Cookie or Bavarian Cream or something along those lines if you want to keep it simple.

 

[Heabob]

I alternate fruity and dessert but generally speaking flavor % is between 12-16. Most flavors are FlavourArt, Flavor West, and TFA. I also do blends and I continuously read on what % recommended for each flavor buto I have got to be doing something wrong!! I don't care about cloud, I'd prefer more taste than cloud.

I'd consider also trying out some of the INW brand flavors, like Shisha Strawberry.
Much stronger than FW & TFA.
CAP has some good flavors too.
My favorite Cinnamon is FW Cinnamon Roll around 5%, although it does contain 0.371% Acetoin.
(But I've found that vaping Cinnamon for too long burns out my taste buds somewhat).

I've generally lowered my flavoring amounts being used, over my 2-3 years of DIY mixing.
I get more flavor using less airflow and MTL type vaping.
Although I just use a cheapo single coil @ 1.8 ohms, 7-8 watts, 70/30VG