I've been mixing for a little over two years now and just last month bought my first "tobacco" flavor concentrate, TFA's RY4 Double. Pretty good stuff. My only other reference to tobacco flavors is from my local B&M's and whike they have a full array I really like the juices that taste mostly like a freshly opened pack of cigerettes. What I'm struggling to understand mostly is the language used for tobacos. What is that fresh tobacco flavor called in descriptions? I'm also noticing a trend in different manufacturers in using similar names for what I'm assuming is a simmilar flavor profiles..? For example;
Virginia
Kentucky
Flue Cured
555
Arabic
Turkish
Burley
Cavendish
Cigar
Desert Ship
Pipe
Which of these are the fresh Tobacco leaf type?
Thanks for the support
As a cigarette smoker I never thought twice about types of tobacco. As a vaper, I had the same question you have. It led me to learn pipe tobacco and cigars, which were never my choice for actual smoking. I'll tell you the parts that stuck with me.
As for cigs... Most American cigs are some combination of Virginia, Burley, (and maybe little bits of Turkish.) Canadian cigs tend to go heaviest on the Virginia; American cigs on the Burley. Those are specific strains of tobacco leaves left to dry on their own. Turkish (think Desert Ship = Camel) is "spiciest" of the three, usually used in small amounts if at all. Turkish, Arabic, and Oriental tobaccos are sun-dried - if you've ever had Turkish cigs, you probably found them more potent than American cigs (I tried a real one once; the nic knocked me for a loop). Kentucky is fire-cured Burley leaves, a potent, darker (literally) tobacco flavor. Cavendish is a specially-processed Virginia and/or Burley tobacco where the leaves are soaked in added flavorings & sweeteners. Flue curing is a processing method, not a separate type of tobacco leaf. It uses the smoke of burning wood, often oak, so I expect smoke and/or wood type flavors in any "flue cured" tobacco flavoring. Latakia is another dark, smoked type of leaf, and tastes like strong, black tobacco to me - with sour notes. Cigars often use older tobacco leaves that are allowed to ferment during the curing. I get the impression that different "cuts" of leaves work better in cigars than pipes, but you can shove any tobacco into a leaf/pipe, so "Pipe" and "Cigar" are not very descriptive names for flavorings. If you want to vape the flavor of that whiffff of a freshly-opened pack of American cigs, try a Burley flavor. FlavourArt makes a good Burley flavor, very much like that "brown" tobacco flavor (scent, really) so familiar to smokers. Oh! 555 is a nutty tobacco flavor that I didn't run into in the real tobacco world - but it's a popular range of nutty tobacco flavors in the vape world. Ditto for RY4, which is a caramel-vanilla (usually sweet) flavor that in MY opinion isn't much like tobacco at all.
I'm no expert on real tobaccos, so if any pipe/cigar tobacco experts care to pipe up (ahem), take their descriptions & advice over mine.
