Clove....Yuck!!

[SmokinBones]

I just bought a bottle of clove flavored juice. I always liked clove cigarettes and figured I would probably love vaping the flavor too. WRONG! This is actually the first flavor I've bought (although I haven't tried a lot yet) that I can't stand. I've been mostly vaping the Marlboro flavor and like it, also tried Desert Ship and liked it OK although it has a creamy/nutty taste I could do without. Even though I don't find the tobacco flavors to really taste like tobacco, they are still the most all-day kinda flavors I've found. Coffee has been my favorite by far, but I still have nearly a full bottle since it seems to wear out atties very quickly for some reason (if anyone has a solution for this it would be great), it's also too sweet for my taste to make an all-day kinda juice.

My problem is, I now have this brand new bottle of clove and it will stay that way unless I find something agreeable to mix in it.

Has anyone tried mixing flavors with clove? If so, what might go well with it to make it usable? It just tastes like a poor interpretation of real clove to me and it's sickening. Even if you haven't tried mixing something with clove, what would you think might go well with it. I know it's only $5 and I've wasted much more than that on smokes in my life, I still can't stand to see, otherwise perfectly good juice, just sit there and go to waste.

 

[Jixchel]

I've never tried mixing clove with anything, but the Tiki Juice from Halo to me seems to have a hint of clove to it. Tiki used to be my all day vape (now it is Boba's) but I still vape Tiki as well. I suppose you could play around with some flavors, the description of Tiki Juice is a spiced tobacco with sweet tropical top notes and a hint of their proprietary menthol. It never mentions clove, but I think it is the spice of the spiced tobacco LOL

 

[SmokinBones]

I've never tried mixing clove with anything, but the Tiki Juice from Halo to me seems to have a hint of clove to it. Tiki used to be my all day vape (now it is Boba's) but I still vape Tiki as well. I suppose you could play around with some flavors, the description of Tiki Juice is a spiced tobacco with sweet tropical top notes and a hint of their proprietary menthol. It never mentions clove, but I think it is the spice of the spiced tobacco LOL

I didn't think about it until I read this reply but I think what's making it so disgusting is that it's too much. Maybe adding some non-flavored or even some tobacco in might make it bearable.

Thanks for the input!

 

[RichardV]

Being as you just bought it it may need to steep (sit for a week or more and age). Some vendors wait to mix the e-liqs until someone orders them. Try letting it sit for a week or two and then try it again.

 

[ThaHealer]

Clove is one of the hardest flavors to get right. With the already difficult task of replicating a cigarette, most clove juices are really overpowering. If you're relatively new, you'll most likely find yourself trying out lots of juices and sticking with relatively few of them. When I was starting out I tried mixing some clove with something else and found it just ruined the juice I liked. Hope you are better.

 

[flarg]

I haven't read any positive reviews of clove flavoured e-juice... Though now looking up "Djarum clove e-liquid" there seems to be positive reviews. I think maybe when vendors list just "clove" as the flavour, it's focused on that spice alone, and not necessarily the taste of clove cigarettes. I don't know the type of clove cigarettes you were used to, and I don't know the type of tobacco/ingredients used in clove cigarettes. Here's a link to some discussion on the forums here, but looks like there's a lot on here too.
http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/requests-opinions-reviews/65277-true-djarum-black-smoker.html
I hate searching through all the entries sometimes, but perhaps asking one of those clovers there they might be able to help you too.

 

[SmokinBones]

Thank you all for the replies. I went up to the drug store and bought some LorAnn flavors to try mixing to see if anything improved it. I also mixed a little with the coffee juice I had and that actually turned out pretty well. If only the coffee one didn't ruin atomizers so quickly.

It's difficult to explain what I meant about the clove flavor. It's not that I was expecting it to taste like a clove cigarette because I've already learned that juices just don't quite capture the cigarette flavor no matter how hard they try. I was just expecting it to taste more like clove...spicy and aromatic...but it's just not. I can taste the clove flavor but it's more sweet and syrup-like flavored...as I said, difficult to explain. It's just not something I could stand to vape for very long without being completely turned off of vaping altogether.

Oh well, if I don't find anything that mixes well with it, at least I know not to bother trying it again. As someone said, I will likely try many different flavors before I settle on just a few that I really like.

 

[Penbras]

I might try mixing the clove with a tobacco flavor as well.