Anyone noticed a change in Inawera Kaktus formulation?

[MikeSully]

Long story short, my experience recently has been that Kaktus Concenrate from Inawera is not the same flavoring as it was a few months ago. I recently bought two 30ml bottles from Bull City a couple months apart, and they both smell and taste like citrus. So I had access to a bottle from DIY Ejuice in canada that tasted creamy and perfect like the original flavoring so I ordered a 120ml bottle from them. This is a tad less citrusy but still not creamy like the original. Either the flavor needs to steep and changes significantly across 2 or 3 months (without mixing) OR they reformulated the flavor for the worse. The old bottles I have are almost nothing like the new bottles in terms of flavor and smell. Anyone have the same experience? This flavor is (was) a major part of my vape diet.... am I missing something? Does the flavor need to steep? Where can I get the old stuff? Help!

Edited: spelling

 

[Zamazam]

I got some a week ago from Bull City and it seems to be the same as the old bottle I have. No idea if it was reformulated.

 

[MikeSully]

Still pondering this issue. Original bottles taste like the "new formulation", meaning they are not the tasty original. I guess I will have to wean myself off of the ADV recipe I have it in and try for something that tastes good with the new stuff. Hmph.

 

[MikeSully]

I bought a bottle directly from @Inawera in Poland. I compared it to an old original bottle I have from about a year ago, and the new stuff is a totally different product. The flavors have almost nothing in common. The change is NOT for the better. Why would @Inawera change the recipe? The new bottle I bought direct is the same flavor as what I recently bought from bull city (repackaged AND original bottle), DIY Ejuice Canada (repackaged 120ml), and an original bottle from Ecigexpress. This WAS my favorite DIY flavor, now it sucks. Feel like I have to start over finding recipes I like. and I have 320+ ml's of the stuff I no longer want. Fail.

 

[MikeSully]

I am thinking to myself how pissed a vendor who uses this in a popular recipe must be! Yikes. Maybe @Inawera can step in and shed some light.

 

[Chrispdx]

I would be interested to and when I break out my mixing supplies I'm gonna do a snif test since I had a small 10ml bottle from ecx and just got a new 30ml bottle from bcv. I hope they are the same. I really love me some cactus.

I really wouldn't know what to do with a couple of my watermelon mixes if it's not right.

 

[Sigmardin]

I purchased a few 120ml bottles of flavoring from BCV in February, including Kacktus by INW and NONE of them were on point. Each one seemed to be cut with PG. I emailed them and the response I got was , in short "no clue what you're talking about but we'll investigate". That was the end of it. I happened to have 2 100ml bottles directly from Inawera and a 250ml bottle from ECX (special one time purchase, they do not offer these sizes yet for INW). Needless to say, the ones direct from Inawera and the ones from ECX were right on point while the one fro BCV was disgusting. I left the bottle alone for a month and it actually seemed to become even less potent, I was so pissed off I threw it away. This also happened (on the same order in Feb.) with LA Cream Cheese Icing, LA Watermelon (clear), INW Two Apples, INW Pina Colada, and INW Pineapple. The moral of my little story, www.ecigexpress.com all day everyday!