A few questions with regard to flavor

[Beowulf62381]

I am very new to vaping and as such have a few questions with regard to flavor.


I would like to know what what intensity range is possible with vaping in regard to flavors. I have smoked flavored cigarettes, cigars, pipes, and hookah. I would classify my experience with cigarettes, cigars, and pipes as kinda of tastes like “insert fruit flavor here” if I focus very hard on what it is said to taste like. On the other hand I found hookah to taste very strongly like the flavor they are said to have. So my question is on a scale of 1-5, with 1 being “kinda of tastes like”and 5 being “tastes like fruit juice / hard candy” what is possible with vaping?


I have am using an ego-c with standard resistance atomizer heads and a standard resistance clearomizer all purchased in a starter kit from Vaperking, to try a few e-juices and have not been very happy with the flavor thus far. I understand that my taste buds are blown out by years of smoking and as they come back online I will be able to pickup flavors better, but in the mean time are there any suggestions you all could give me to get more flavor out of my ego-c. Do some flavors come though more than others i.e.vanilla, nut, fruit, tobacco? Are their any venders that have flavors stronger than others across their product line or which do not require steeping?


I have tested out around 10 flavors from Ecblends some fruit some tobacco all at 80PG/20VG,24mg and wouldgive the flavor a 1 out of five all though the throat hit is perfect for me. I will admit I did not give them time to steep and am hopingthey will be more flavorful 3 weeks from now.


I tried the V2 Red 18mg. This is a very odd sensation as to me any way it taste like nothing at all, and I mean nothing. If I could not see the vapor plume I would not think I was inhaling anything other than air. The 18mg does not provide the throat hit I expect either at least not at the current wattage I am vaping. I have let this steep for about a week but have found no change in the flavor.


I have also tried the tobacco flavor at 32mg that shipped in my starter kit. This had some taste but I was not very fond of it and felt the throat hit to be a bit strong for me. I did not give this time to steep at all though.


I am currently awaiting shipment of several low resistance cartomizer that people seem to speak highly of from Smoktech and Boge, some are duel coil other are single coil and I hope these as well as the steeping will increase the flavor of my current e-juices.




P.S. If this post comes off with a negative tone please forgive me. I am truly enjoying vaping, and am down to 3-4 analogs per week (quite date set for Thanksgiving day as I will have a long weekend). I just wanted to know if there was more in the world of vaping that I am missing out on with respect to flavor and if need to focus on hardware or juice at this point.

 

[theguy01]

Your tastebuds will indeed do very...silly things in the first month or two after you quit smoking. For me, coming of 1.5pad, this included a couple of weeks where nothing (including food) tasted much like anything, before things improved.

Many juice vendors have an option for double flavor / "extra shot" of flavor in their juices, which should help you at least taste something in what you're vaping. Also check out the juice reviews section - some vendors (and individual juices) are just more subtly flavored than others. Personally, I've found juices that are so intense that I cut them with unflavored VG, and others that are exceedingly subtle on flavor - from the same vendor! Taste is extremely subjective, too, so what's "nice and strong" to some folks is "overpowering/chemical-tasting" to others.

One word of advice, however, is to not go too wild in ordering juice initially. Once your tastebuds settle down, you may well find that a juice that was initially one of your favorites has turned into poison. I speak from experience on this.

On the hardware side, when I was starting out, switching from the ego tank system to cartomizers greatly improved the flavor and throat hit I was experiencing.

A variable-voltage device (ego twist batteries are ~$25) will also help, to the extent that you can fiddle around with the voltage to find the sweet spot for your juices. I know some folks who aren't happy vaping at anything other than a voltage/power that, to me, makes all juices taste like a forest fire.

 

[Thrasher]

"One word of advice, however, is to not go too wild in ordering juice initially. Once your tastebuds settle down, you may well find that a juice that was initially one of your favorites has turned into poison. I speak from experience on this."

totally agree here i had some juices in the beginning i couldnt stand now i really like them, even ordered more fresh to be sure it wasnt just the steeping. your taste will change alot. the wildest thing of all is stop smoking completely for 2-3 weeks and light a cig, you will wonder how the heck you were not able to taste that crappy chemical mix b4. kinda taste like brake fluid mixed with acetone now lol.

 

[Baditude]

I agree totally with all the above comments.

Taste buds will take some time to heal. Drink plenty of water to prevent the dry mouth that vaping can possibly cause and also impact your ability to taste flavors. Practice good oral hygeine. Allow the custom made flavors time to steep; a bad-tasting flavor initially may turn into a favorite after 2 weeks steeping. Some juice vendors may provide the option for extra flavoring; but don't overdue this as it can have a negative effect.

When exhaling vapor, allow some to escape through your nose. Our sense of taste is closely associated with our sense of smell. This can be easily demonstrated when we have a head cold, and food and drink may appear to be tasteless during this time.

When ordering from a new juice vendor, it's a wise idea to get sample packs first. That way you aren't wasting a lot of money on juice that you may not like. If you end up liking a flavor, you can easily order more in a larger size.

When testing out new flavors, if you don't drip your juice on atomizers like myself, you can use ce3s. These are the size of cartomizers, but since they don't have the polyfill that cartos have, they can be emptied, rinsed out, and refilled with a new flavor relatively easy.

 

[Beowulf62381]

Thanks I had thought about getting a twist when my current battery dies, but I may go ahead and pick one up just to try the VV at that price.

 

[jazzbo]

^^What Baditude said. It's really easy to go way nuts on the juice orders and end up with a bunch of bottles you'll grow to hate or never like from the first vape. Luckily, there are more and more brick and mortar vape shops opening up and if you have one nearby, I'd be willing to bet they'd be happy to let you sample a few juices. And most def the sample pack is your friend. 3 or 5 mil may not sound like much, but it's easier to chuck out 3 mils of ashwater than it is 30mils of ashwater.

While taste is indeed subjective, you'll come to appreciate the opinions of vapers here who have been there and vaped that.... Read and determine if a particular reviewer has the same "subjective" taste as you. It'll give you some reference point to start with.

 

[tnt56]

Everything I could say has already been said. I've got around 150ml of juice that use to taste good and now it's nasty. But I'll still keep it for hard times that may or may not come. Just keep trying and asking questions. That's what this place is all about.

 

[Thrasher]

lol and about the v2 reds..................... mmmm yummy - warm air..... thats what I thought, liked congress lots better. once I started really vaping I tried for a long time to find that flavor but gave up as other things grabbed my interest.