I had to give the Aspire another chance; I so wanted it to shine, to become my bottom-coil mainstay--to justify the $10 I'd spent on it.
I knew my DIY tobacco flavor I'd tried before to be selective, performing full-flower in only a small, select number of delivery devices, so I tried a menthol/tobacco flavor I sometimes vape to avoid vaper's tongue (Frostbite by Mountain Oak Vapors). This time I had two devices set up to provide an immediate, side-by-side comparison with the iClear 30.
I know I'm going against the grain here, but the i30 still won.
Frostbite isn't of the Vicks Vapo Rub menthol persuasion; menthol shares the stage with a nuanced tobacco element, and those flavor tones simply all but vanished in the Aspire.
As I mentioned before, the Aspire is superior in all other regards, but at the end of the day, flavor is what it's all about.