My first review, so please bear with me.
Some caveats: I am primarily a fan of fruity/spicy/drink flavors, not bakery or tobacco flavors, and my reviews are biased in that way. Being a newbie, I'm also just going to address flavor because I don't really know how to quantify th or vapor
All flavors below are vaporbomb unless otherwise listed. Here's a run down of the flavors I have tried, from best to worst.
Group 1: I would order any of the four below again with no reservation.
1. cinnabomb (x2) 30vg/70pg or 70vg/30pg. This is my holy grail vape. It is the red hot doppelganger: imagine putting that candy in a vaporizer, stirring in a bit of nicotine, and puffing on it. And sometimes choking on it. I love cinnamon to begin with, and the harshness of it really makes me feel like I am smoking. It doesn't seem to clog my atomizer as much, which is great (although the flavor will insinuate itself into the atomizer and so it is best to reserve one for the cinnabomb and not use it with other flavors). As others have mentioned, shake it well before using. Somewhere in the back of my mind I have a bit of a concern that something this great is going to prove to be toxic or something, but until there is hard evidence of such, I'm going to enjoy this on a daily basis. It is kind of hard core though, so vape with caution. No need to steep.
2. zebrastripe 30vg/70pg. My friend picked this up, then bought a huge bottle because he loved it. I ended up syringing off a bunch of his and really like it, too. It's tangy and fruity: just like the gum. And there is no need to steep--big bonus.
3. fruit cooler (lemon) 30vg/70pg. I love citrus. This is a true citrus--no cloying sugar--with a bit of cooling "ice" thrown in. A good sub for lemonade if you're not digging super sweet stuff but want something to cool off. A bit of steeping is good, but still good without.
4. green apple 70vg/30pg. Great tangy sour green apple candy flavor. Very important note: this needs some serious steeping. Straight out of the bottle it is no good at all (in fact, this seems to hold true for most of Vaporbomb's juices, especially the fruit/light colored ones). Give it at least a week, but preferably more.
5. Freedomsmoke's blue motorcycle (freebie: can't remember ratio). My friend and I had no idea what this was--blue motorcycle? WTF? I remember being a bit concerned, given the color, that it was antifreeze. My friend ended up finishing it, but it was a really good sort of fruit punch/drink, a mock of a bar type but with no alcohol overtones I could really tell. But makes me want to try more of Freedomsmoke's stuff.
Group 2: decent but probably wouldn't reorder.
6. mountain mist 70vg/30pg. I didn't get much flavor off of this. It was great because it was somehow carbonated--and so it was great for topping off other flavors. Note that I tried this before I was acquainted with the notion of steeping, so I might just reorder just to see whether steeping would make it better--or reorder not for use on its own, but for topping off.
7. arctic ice 70vg/30pg. Not much flavor, but nice cool. If you like menthol but don't want mint, it's a good way to go. Again, this was pre-steeping education era, so might be better if had been steeped.
8. new peach 30vg/70pg. The peach is nice, but more candy than a juicy peach than one would the flavor is more faint that one would expect of something advertised as double strength. It just lingers in the vapor, and doesn't really hit the taste buds. I find that this and #9 below both clog my atty quite badly (although this might just be the vg/pg mix), and require a long period to steep. Tastes like nothing for the first two weeks or longer.
9. new blueberry 30vg/70pg. This really tastes like blueberry candy, heavy on sugar and low on any sort of rewarding fruit flavor. The same issues of clogging and taste fading that apply to new peach above hold true here. Needs a long steeping period.
Group 3: would not buy again
10. fire & ice 70 vg/30pg. I have nothing against this per se; it is a combination of cinnabomb and ice, which in theory sounds better to me than just cinnabomb alone. But the cinnabomb overwhelms the ice to the point that the whole exercise is futile. Might as well just buy a big honking bottle of cinnabomb: no need to try this one too. But if you do, no steeping required.
11. Vaporheads' waffle 50/50. I bought this one based on the recs I've seen. My pan of this might be unfair, given that I'm not that into bakery and the steeping concept had not yet reached my brainpan. But I just found it kind of tepid and flavorless. I ended up mixing it up with some horrible coffee stuff I bought from Wordup a year ago, hoping it might improve the coffee, but unfortunately the coffee overtook the waffle entirely
12. mojito 30 vg/70pg. I love mojitos--my favorite drink. But this tasted nothing like a mojito. No bright mint or clear sugar or anything. Sort of sour, if anything. I was so psyched to try it I started on it as soon as I got it and it was totally blech; put it back to steep and it took an entire month for it to have a meaningful flavor. But again, not a mojito. I'm kind of sad about this, because the notion of a mojito was so great, but now I'm saving it to prime new attys.
13. Vaporheads' creme de menthe 50/50. This is kind of like the mojito. Maybe I just have a thing against minty flavored stuff (though I love mint?). Even after steeping, just didn't taste right to me. So take #12 and #13 with a grain of salt: maybe it's me, not them
With all of this said, I over all prefer Vaporbomb. But I will say that Gary at Vaporheads has amazing customer service. We emailed back and forth about different flavors, etc., and I know he is willing to customize flavors and enjoys experimenting. I will order from him again--just tried a few flavors. So give him a try--other people love him, and I definitely will again.
Hope this helps someone out there!
Some caveats: I am primarily a fan of fruity/spicy/drink flavors, not bakery or tobacco flavors, and my reviews are biased in that way. Being a newbie, I'm also just going to address flavor because I don't really know how to quantify th or vapor
All flavors below are vaporbomb unless otherwise listed. Here's a run down of the flavors I have tried, from best to worst.
Group 1: I would order any of the four below again with no reservation.
1. cinnabomb (x2) 30vg/70pg or 70vg/30pg. This is my holy grail vape. It is the red hot doppelganger: imagine putting that candy in a vaporizer, stirring in a bit of nicotine, and puffing on it. And sometimes choking on it. I love cinnamon to begin with, and the harshness of it really makes me feel like I am smoking. It doesn't seem to clog my atomizer as much, which is great (although the flavor will insinuate itself into the atomizer and so it is best to reserve one for the cinnabomb and not use it with other flavors). As others have mentioned, shake it well before using. Somewhere in the back of my mind I have a bit of a concern that something this great is going to prove to be toxic or something, but until there is hard evidence of such, I'm going to enjoy this on a daily basis. It is kind of hard core though, so vape with caution. No need to steep.
2. zebrastripe 30vg/70pg. My friend picked this up, then bought a huge bottle because he loved it. I ended up syringing off a bunch of his and really like it, too. It's tangy and fruity: just like the gum. And there is no need to steep--big bonus.
3. fruit cooler (lemon) 30vg/70pg. I love citrus. This is a true citrus--no cloying sugar--with a bit of cooling "ice" thrown in. A good sub for lemonade if you're not digging super sweet stuff but want something to cool off. A bit of steeping is good, but still good without.
4. green apple 70vg/30pg. Great tangy sour green apple candy flavor. Very important note: this needs some serious steeping. Straight out of the bottle it is no good at all (in fact, this seems to hold true for most of Vaporbomb's juices, especially the fruit/light colored ones). Give it at least a week, but preferably more.
5. Freedomsmoke's blue motorcycle (freebie: can't remember ratio). My friend and I had no idea what this was--blue motorcycle? WTF? I remember being a bit concerned, given the color, that it was antifreeze. My friend ended up finishing it, but it was a really good sort of fruit punch/drink, a mock of a bar type but with no alcohol overtones I could really tell. But makes me want to try more of Freedomsmoke's stuff.
Group 2: decent but probably wouldn't reorder.
6. mountain mist 70vg/30pg. I didn't get much flavor off of this. It was great because it was somehow carbonated--and so it was great for topping off other flavors. Note that I tried this before I was acquainted with the notion of steeping, so I might just reorder just to see whether steeping would make it better--or reorder not for use on its own, but for topping off.
7. arctic ice 70vg/30pg. Not much flavor, but nice cool. If you like menthol but don't want mint, it's a good way to go. Again, this was pre-steeping education era, so might be better if had been steeped.
8. new peach 30vg/70pg. The peach is nice, but more candy than a juicy peach than one would the flavor is more faint that one would expect of something advertised as double strength. It just lingers in the vapor, and doesn't really hit the taste buds. I find that this and #9 below both clog my atty quite badly (although this might just be the vg/pg mix), and require a long period to steep. Tastes like nothing for the first two weeks or longer.
9. new blueberry 30vg/70pg. This really tastes like blueberry candy, heavy on sugar and low on any sort of rewarding fruit flavor. The same issues of clogging and taste fading that apply to new peach above hold true here. Needs a long steeping period.
Group 3: would not buy again
10. fire & ice 70 vg/30pg. I have nothing against this per se; it is a combination of cinnabomb and ice, which in theory sounds better to me than just cinnabomb alone. But the cinnabomb overwhelms the ice to the point that the whole exercise is futile. Might as well just buy a big honking bottle of cinnabomb: no need to try this one too. But if you do, no steeping required.
11. Vaporheads' waffle 50/50. I bought this one based on the recs I've seen. My pan of this might be unfair, given that I'm not that into bakery and the steeping concept had not yet reached my brainpan. But I just found it kind of tepid and flavorless. I ended up mixing it up with some horrible coffee stuff I bought from Wordup a year ago, hoping it might improve the coffee, but unfortunately the coffee overtook the waffle entirely
12. mojito 30 vg/70pg. I love mojitos--my favorite drink. But this tasted nothing like a mojito. No bright mint or clear sugar or anything. Sort of sour, if anything. I was so psyched to try it I started on it as soon as I got it and it was totally blech; put it back to steep and it took an entire month for it to have a meaningful flavor. But again, not a mojito. I'm kind of sad about this, because the notion of a mojito was so great, but now I'm saving it to prime new attys.
13. Vaporheads' creme de menthe 50/50. This is kind of like the mojito. Maybe I just have a thing against minty flavored stuff (though I love mint?). Even after steeping, just didn't taste right to me. So take #12 and #13 with a grain of salt: maybe it's me, not them
With all of this said, I over all prefer Vaporbomb. But I will say that Gary at Vaporheads has amazing customer service. We emailed back and forth about different flavors, etc., and I know he is willing to customize flavors and enjoys experimenting. I will order from him again--just tried a few flavors. So give him a try--other people love him, and I definitely will again.
Hope this helps someone out there!
but it's not for everyone. The closest I can compare it to actual food is organic peach rings. I used to love the Zebra Gum but it didn't really stick with me after a while. Arctic Ice does slightly change after a while, but not too drastically. It's a hit or miss, to be honest.
Hope to see more reviews from you!
