Clove E-Liquid: Groovy Effects Like Djarum Clove Cigs?

[sambhogasarah]

I was cooking with cloves tonight, and suddenly I thought of Djarum clove cigarettes. Remember those?

• I'm wondering if clove e-juice would have the same groovy effects: the sweetness and numbness in the mouth.

2. Since the flavor would have to be natural for the groovy effects, I am thinking about making my own by infusing VG with an abundance of cloves. I haven't tried making my own infusions for e-juice concentrates yet.

• Has anyone tried this with cloves or anything else?
• Would I do a cold infusion or simmer it? Would simmering it destroy essential groove factors?
• What else have you used to make your own natural flavors?

 

[snarfies]

I've had a pure clove ejuice from Zeus juice - yah, you get the full effect.

Anise works too.

 

[Str8vision]

I was cooking with cloves tonight, and suddenly I thought of Djarum clove cigarettes. Remember those?

• I'm wondering if clove e-juice would have the same groovy effects: the sweetness and numbness in the mouth.

2. Since the flavor would have to be natural for the groovy effects, I am thinking about making my own by infusing VG with an abundance of cloves. I haven't tried making my own infusions for e-juice concentrates yet.

• Has anyone tried this with cloves or anything else?
• Would I do a cold infusion or simmer it? Would simmering it destroy essential groove factors?
• What else have you used to make your own natural flavors?

I've never extracted flavor from cloves although it sounds like an interesting flavor nuance for a NET. You could try extracting flavor from whole cloves using VG, PG or PGA as the extraction solvent. Hot or cold extraction techniques should work, cold extraction takes a long time, likely a month or more for cloves. A heat assisted extraction would take considerably less time but requires more effort/attention on your part. The finished extraction must be filtered before use but filtering is relatively cheap and easy. Here's a link to the extraction sub-forum http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/liquid-extraction-tobacco/ although primarily for tobacco the same techniques work for many other things. My suggestion would be to perform a PG heat assisted extraction using a crock pot (slow cooker), set on "warm". Personally, I would avoid using high heat (>170F) as it might degrade/alter the flavor. A 130F-150F water bath for 72+ hours would be my best guess for whole cloves but in-process sampling is the best way to determine when an extraction is ready.