So with mixing, I've found that all my results end up tasting flat - like how the smell of a wet dog isn't naturally pleasant, the mixes just end up tasting low and dull.
Working with Capella for instance, putting Vanilla Custard in is weird. By itself, I get a strong note from I guess the butters in the blend, and with Sub-Ohm, that effect comes through as a ton of body and somewhat a sweet peppery effect. Almost waxy, but not so much the taste of wax.
And flavor, I'm just not getting the flavor of Custard at all. At best, I could describe it as a completely uninteresting, sugarless vanilla ice cream, at best. Almost more just like sugarless sweetness, something that simply balances the water-like taste of pure VG. Like vaping a slightly cream-like cloud.
Now, I understand that flavorings just aren't going to automatically translate to vapor. Scientifically, how could they? It's heated and vaporized flavorings. And I'm someone who has a reduced sense of internal smell because of car accident trauma and facial reconstruction, so for me, it's purely what the vapor "tastes like." I get no added bonus from the scent of the vapor coming up into the nostrils. It has to taste good, and virtually all these DIY recipes do not for me... they taste flat, weird, and low, if not completely muddled or nasty.
So I'm thinking that there's a big component truly missing from most DIY mixes. Folks can be proud of making something all they want to be but I'm self-critical and I need a product that matches truly good E-Liquids like some of the truly unique and tasty offerings from Charlie Noble or Ripe Vapes (two opposite companies but they both nail something many do not...)
Now I tried EM but I think it reacted badly Sub-Ohm. I may have used too much but a drop of TFA Sweetener (%10 EM in PG) shouldn't have done that in a 15ml batch, but it did. So I'm trying Capella Sweetener at the moment, and I think it seems to start to heighten the notes in a mix, but I'm wondering if anyone knows what percentage I should dilute it to?
And second, and this is truly for the folks who may have some true connections with popular E-Liquid makers out there (especially high-VG lines for Sub-Ohm), in your opinion what truly makes your mixes pop? Is it really just throwing in ingredients, or a sweetener, or a texturizer, or maybe that you stick with a certain brand or flavoring style (building ingredients one by one or using composites such as Capella Orange-Sicle [whatever it's called])?
So far, my mixes just aren't popping and it ain't me cuz I've followed things to a tee. And I'm sorry but I ain't gonna go through and literally make over +200 micro-batches to taste every flavoring and flavoring combo, I'm trying to vape something not start a flavoring company. And I've tried every recipe possible. Somethings preventing them from tasting "right."
Doing research on Capella flavor drops, people use them with liquid stevia or else folks say they taste like chemicals, and it's because Capella doesn't add sweetener. Shouldn't that hold true in E-Liquid? Because all I'm tasting otherwise is flatness, and anything past %10 total flavoring makes coils burn. Dunno what to do from here.
Working with Capella for instance, putting Vanilla Custard in is weird. By itself, I get a strong note from I guess the butters in the blend, and with Sub-Ohm, that effect comes through as a ton of body and somewhat a sweet peppery effect. Almost waxy, but not so much the taste of wax.
And flavor, I'm just not getting the flavor of Custard at all. At best, I could describe it as a completely uninteresting, sugarless vanilla ice cream, at best. Almost more just like sugarless sweetness, something that simply balances the water-like taste of pure VG. Like vaping a slightly cream-like cloud.
Now, I understand that flavorings just aren't going to automatically translate to vapor. Scientifically, how could they? It's heated and vaporized flavorings. And I'm someone who has a reduced sense of internal smell because of car accident trauma and facial reconstruction, so for me, it's purely what the vapor "tastes like." I get no added bonus from the scent of the vapor coming up into the nostrils. It has to taste good, and virtually all these DIY recipes do not for me... they taste flat, weird, and low, if not completely muddled or nasty.
So I'm thinking that there's a big component truly missing from most DIY mixes. Folks can be proud of making something all they want to be but I'm self-critical and I need a product that matches truly good E-Liquids like some of the truly unique and tasty offerings from Charlie Noble or Ripe Vapes (two opposite companies but they both nail something many do not...)
Now I tried EM but I think it reacted badly Sub-Ohm. I may have used too much but a drop of TFA Sweetener (%10 EM in PG) shouldn't have done that in a 15ml batch, but it did. So I'm trying Capella Sweetener at the moment, and I think it seems to start to heighten the notes in a mix, but I'm wondering if anyone knows what percentage I should dilute it to?
And second, and this is truly for the folks who may have some true connections with popular E-Liquid makers out there (especially high-VG lines for Sub-Ohm), in your opinion what truly makes your mixes pop? Is it really just throwing in ingredients, or a sweetener, or a texturizer, or maybe that you stick with a certain brand or flavoring style (building ingredients one by one or using composites such as Capella Orange-Sicle [whatever it's called])?
So far, my mixes just aren't popping and it ain't me cuz I've followed things to a tee. And I'm sorry but I ain't gonna go through and literally make over +200 micro-batches to taste every flavoring and flavoring combo, I'm trying to vape something not start a flavoring company. And I've tried every recipe possible. Somethings preventing them from tasting "right."
Doing research on Capella flavor drops, people use them with liquid stevia or else folks say they taste like chemicals, and it's because Capella doesn't add sweetener. Shouldn't that hold true in E-Liquid? Because all I'm tasting otherwise is flatness, and anything past %10 total flavoring makes coils burn. Dunno what to do from here.
