Why a juice may taste different to different people

jplanet;5709100 said:

After a year and a half of vaping, I've come to realize that individual taste is only one small part of the mystery around the different reactions to different flavors.

For one thing, whatever juice I am vaping right now will affect how I feel about the next one. For example, if I have one of my favorite cigar flavors, and go to another tobacco flavor, it could taste kind of nasty to me. But, if I have some vanilla in between, it will taste delightful.

It gets more complicated than that, even. I have one tobacco juice that gets better as I keep vaping it - like the way potato chips start to feel nice to crunch on after you've had a few, and you can't stop. But the first few puffs aren't impressive. Others start to lose their flavor after a few hours, and I have to switch to something else and then back again to fully enjoy it.

There was one juice I was vaping constantly over the summer. I got sick, and it was one of the only juices I had around at the time. If I vape it now, all I can think of is the taste in my mouth when I was sick - can't vape that juice any more! But I loved it...used to be that I would panic if I had to go a day without it - now I have 20mls sitting in my drawer unused.

So, even when a reviewer spends all day vaping something, and takes the time to review it in a thorough and methodical way, I still wonder what flavors they were acclimated to just before they had the one they're reviewing...that can totally change everything.

One thing I can say for sure, is that anyone who reviews a juice as they are trying it for the first time NEEDS to put the camcorder away, and vape that juice for a few hours, at least, if not for days, before they do a review. I laugh when I see video reviews of these guys who are telling you about their experience as they are trying it for the first time. There is not a single juice that has the same impression on me after a few days that it initially had with the first few puffs, whether good or bad. If it tastes great on teh first puff, will I get sick of it after an hour? Will it start to lose it's taste? Give me heartburn?

Of course, there are genetics - some people are "super tasters", and only enjoy very subtle flavorings - others don't know they're vaping unless it's cinnamon-infused battery acid! There was a discovery that some people love cilantro, but others have a gene that makes it taste like chemical soap to them. Differences like this must be happening in the vapiong community on a whole other level...

LOL, sorry for the long post, this happens to be something I've given some thought to recently...

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