Here's the thing that is driving me crazy about all the new, really expensive juices everyone raves about for a week and then forgets all about once they've moved on to the next big thing. A great juice, one that stands above the rest isn't just about an nice mix of flavors. It's also about the quality of the ingredients used.
When you order one of these "fancy" juices and you can taste the nic, you can taste the EM, you can pin point an exact TPA flavoring, that isn't good juice people, that's someone marketing their DIY to you the same as you could have done to them if you'd wanted to get a website and some labels.
Just because they gave it a cool name, a cool website, cool labels and bottles doesn't mean their blueberry lemonade is worth 24 bucks. Blueberry lemonade is just blueberry lemonade, whether you make it yourself for 2 bucks or pay 24 bucks for 15 ml of it because it's called Magical Smurf Blood or something.
I think some comparisons need to be made, about the quality of the base, the skilled use of sweeteners, if not by the average joe vapers themselves, which I would strongly recommend, at least by reviewers, most of whom have no business doing reviews. The point of a review shouldn't just be for an average person to tell you how a juice tastes to them. There should be a standard of language, such as the language used in wine reviews, where tart or fruity or sweet means something somewhat specific across the board. A review worth watching should not say, I like it, it's lemony. Reviewers should do some taste testing, it would be more useful to see someone review 10 blueberry lemonade flavors and describe the difference between them than review 10 flavors by one vendor when all they're saying is I like it, it's caramel-y. If you can't hone your palate to define the taste and smell of nic, pg, vg, em, sucralose, the particular smell of different brands of flavoring, why should anyone want to watch your reviews?
There is a reason the really successful liquids have lasted and remained popular, liquids like Pluid by Mad Murdock,( insert other old school favorite here since I used a bad example)
, etc... They are not just a tasty little mix of flavorings, they are QUALITY juices made by professionals who actually understand the ingredients in them! They stand out because they actually are different. They didn't just buy some nic from Wizard Labs and some flavors from The Perfumers Apprentice and dump some stuff in a bottle to make money off you. Sure, there are hundreds of other absinthe eliquids now that people have had years to copy, but there aren't hundreds with that kind of balance, smoothness, that don't burn or gunk up your works in a day or two. That taste good when you get it and weird three weeks later. That's what makes juice worth paying for, a standard of quality.
We need to develop these standards as vaping consumers, we should know enough by now to demand better than being duped into buying Bobs DIY with a cool label because it's hip and new this week.
When you order one of these "fancy" juices and you can taste the nic, you can taste the EM, you can pin point an exact TPA flavoring, that isn't good juice people, that's someone marketing their DIY to you the same as you could have done to them if you'd wanted to get a website and some labels.
Just because they gave it a cool name, a cool website, cool labels and bottles doesn't mean their blueberry lemonade is worth 24 bucks. Blueberry lemonade is just blueberry lemonade, whether you make it yourself for 2 bucks or pay 24 bucks for 15 ml of it because it's called Magical Smurf Blood or something.
I think some comparisons need to be made, about the quality of the base, the skilled use of sweeteners, if not by the average joe vapers themselves, which I would strongly recommend, at least by reviewers, most of whom have no business doing reviews. The point of a review shouldn't just be for an average person to tell you how a juice tastes to them. There should be a standard of language, such as the language used in wine reviews, where tart or fruity or sweet means something somewhat specific across the board. A review worth watching should not say, I like it, it's lemony. Reviewers should do some taste testing, it would be more useful to see someone review 10 blueberry lemonade flavors and describe the difference between them than review 10 flavors by one vendor when all they're saying is I like it, it's caramel-y. If you can't hone your palate to define the taste and smell of nic, pg, vg, em, sucralose, the particular smell of different brands of flavoring, why should anyone want to watch your reviews?
There is a reason the really successful liquids have lasted and remained popular, liquids like Pluid by Mad Murdock,( insert other old school favorite here since I used a bad example)
, etc... They are not just a tasty little mix of flavorings, they are QUALITY juices made by professionals who actually understand the ingredients in them! They stand out because they actually are different. They didn't just buy some nic from Wizard Labs and some flavors from The Perfumers Apprentice and dump some stuff in a bottle to make money off you. Sure, there are hundreds of other absinthe eliquids now that people have had years to copy, but there aren't hundreds with that kind of balance, smoothness, that don't burn or gunk up your works in a day or two. That taste good when you get it and weird three weeks later. That's what makes juice worth paying for, a standard of quality.
We need to develop these standards as vaping consumers, we should know enough by now to demand better than being duped into buying Bobs DIY with a cool label because it's hip and new this week.
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