I DIY, my favored vapes are desserts, fruits, and alcohols. I love most purilum flavors I've tried, and I like Nic River and OSDIY and Flavor shack as vendors. In particular, mangos, FA forestberry is a great mixed fruit, some One shots I've loved include Bananas Foster (I have two of them, I combined them, and added a bit more stuff) the English (purilum I think) flavors, many of them I am a fan of, in particular English trifle. I will usually amend my one shots a bit.
But, I recently bought menthol (I HATED mints at first) some Cactus, and some more floral flavors, DIY is really expanding my horizons, as I'd say I'd probably HATE menthol at more than 0.1-1% max, but I am learning almost anything can be good in the right proportions and flavor combos. I'm even liking lemon and lime (although orange is a flavor I can't deal with ever, that and "Joy" which is I believe a proprietary Nic River flavoring, and it tastes like whatever the opposite of "Joy" is. It's like this clove, tarry mess. Folks who are having success with it are using it at like 0.5 percent to add "something" but it's not "Joy" in my opinion, LOL.
Almost anything can be good in the right proportions and the right mix, I am finding. So, the more I DIY, the more I tend to "like." I just had to put a halt on any more flavors because there is no way on earth I am going to get through what I have, and what I have is sort of variant enough that I imagine I'll be mixing it in different ways, at different proportions, and whatnot.
Go to flavors for sweetening include marshmallow, cotton candy and meringue. You can't use too much because they are ethyl maltol flavors that can mute other flavors, but they're great in the right strength for richness and mouthfeel. Purilem has a toasted marshmallow that I find pretty epic. I do use Supersweet (TA, I think it is) for straight up sweetening, but I like sucralose, I trust ir and my body's reaction to it. Some folks use stevia, but I can't seem to get away from the bitter note in stevia, although I can see where "bitter" might be fun.
My latest flavor I cannot wait to attack is going to be a Margareta flavor. LOL. I haven't tasted tequila in a long time, so I'm hoping I can make something that tastes good to me. That's going to involve some lime and salt, but I'm not sure yet what else is going to make it "good". I will be finding out.
Really, the more I mix, the more I come to understand that often, it's not the flavoring that is, or isn't good. I have come more to see that it's what and how I mix it.
I could probably make a "good" sweet tobacco by purilum, it's just not on my list to buy any more flavors at the moment, and any time I enter a flavoring site, I don't leave with ONE flavor, so I'm on hiatus for now. Etc.
Ana