Hey tango, long time no see!
Of your list I've only tried MOV and Vermillion. I have not tried any menthol from these guys, as I haven't been
vaping menthol since my early BMV days, over a year ago.
However, if you want tobacco flavors these are the ones I would recommend from both of these, given your listed dislikes:
MOV: Sunday Morning is my favorite, a little coffee, medium cream and medium tobacco flavor to my palate. Also I thoroughly enjoy Southern Gentleman, which is kind of a funky, liquor infused pipe tobacco (to me it's a bourbon or sherry/port or something that is quite tasty). Another really good one is Pendragon, a cherry vanilla cigar or pipe flavor, they say anyway, the flavors other than tobacco are quite subtle to me, but I really dig it. Apache is a newer one, quite a bold heavy tobacco, not at all cigarette-like either. These are all NETs, so very authentic tobacco flavors, and are part of their Tennessee Gold Label line. Their Tennessee Silver label juices are not NETs, and I've only had two of these, their Smoky Mountain 555, which like you, was not my thing, nutty. Also their Applewood tobacco, which is decent but I like Vermillion's much, much more, and VRs is a NET, so more in line with my personal
vaping philosophy and preference.
Vermillion River: like I said above, their Kentucky Premium Applewood is wonderful to my palate. Very sweet and striking natural apple flavor. They have KY Premium cherrywood, maplewood, and the KY Premium base itself as well, again all NETs. I've had all of these and the applewood. Is the one I will reorder, it stands out a little more to me, but since they all use the same base, which is Maple-y sweet, they are all quite similar. Another pretty decent NET of theirs I've had is the Poker Blend. They also have a Game Night NET, which I have NOT yet tried. Poker Blend is very dry and more of a cigarette flavor, to me. I think it would work very well with adding menthol, but sadly it doesn't appear to be an option. They do have several menthol tobaccos which I believe are not NETs.
I find VR to be pretty good, MOV to be even better. Some others you may want to check out, if you haven't already are Ahlusion, Good e-Juice, QuickNicJuice, Heathers Heavenly Vapes (I think you have tried them already if I recall), Want2Vape, and MyVapeJuice. These Re purveyors of NETs as well as non-NET tobaccos that I have tried and enjoy. Some or most do offer menthol additions to their juices if that is of interest. There are quite a few tobaccos, and particularly NET tobaccos from other vendors I have yet to try, so if you want a more exhaustive list, ask around in the natural tobacco thread, or the shortcut thread, NETty Awards.
Good luck and happy vaping!
