DIY ADV - What's your recipe?

[Alter]

I'm a simple mixer not turning my craft into rocket science. I don't like a sweet vape and vape mostly tobaccos so my mixes only have a couple ingredients. What I've been vaping for many months is a easy blend of a 6% of either Hangsen highway, desert ship or No5 with a 5% tobacco absolute (RTS TA, Garuda, Cohiba or IMW Virginia) usually around 60%HS and 40%TA or different percentages if I want to change the taste a bit. My wife vapes a 4.5% Desert Ship and .75% Sig circus cotton candy, she been vaping cotton candy for the last couple years but found my DIY juice more flavorful than any commercial juice she's tried. Even at .75% cotton candy her juice IMO is too sweet for me.
Patience and letting your juices steep for long periods of time is the key to a great vape.

 

[somdcomputerguy]

I'm a simple mixer .. so my mixes only have a couple ingredients.

desert ship

I'm a simple mixer and my mixes only have a couple ingredients also, but I'm simple minded too , and if a recipe has more than one or two ingredients I get confused. Even if it's all displayed on screen or paper right in front of me! I have used the desert ship flavor, I like the Turkish tobacco-ness of it, but I've decided to stick with clear flavors because I'm under the impression it will make my atomizers last longer before I clean them or replace them..

 

[Alter]

I can get 3+ weeks vaping with a 1.2ohm subtank rayon build, even after that time my coil isn't all that gunked up but the rayon I think plugs up and hinders juice flow to the coil. I remove the rayon and it may be discolored but the inside is rather clean, with a mild dryburn I can scrape off all the cooties and the coil ready to go again. Before with commercial tobacco juices I was lucky to get a week and end up with a burnt cocooned coil, even less with cotton instead of rayon. My wife may get 2 weeks but she lets her coil burn so badly thats its almost unsalvageable so I just toss and recoil her atty but her juice is sweet.
For me the novelty of coil rebuilding has worn off a long time ago so its just get it done and get back to life.

 

[petrotech]

All TFA:

orange cream - 7%
Strawberry - 5%
Pinapple - 4%

Shake and Vape is good, better with a week or two steep

 

[AndriaD]

Dont feel too bad, herb,

Recipe creation is an art.
Sometimes you get it right, other times, not so much.

Like in music, listen to everyone around you then copy what works for you and move it forward for the next guy to steal.

That's more or less how I created my strawberry & cream recipe... Almost every one I looked at contained some ingredient I either didn't have, or wouldn't use because of diketones.... so I just looked for every possible strawberry & cream recipe I could find, noting the levels of flavors, the ratios in the mix... then figured out that I had DX Bavarian, Vanilla Swirl, and CAP Sweet Cream (I'd already gotten the Shisha Strawberry based solely on its description at BCV)... then figured out a recipe; at first mix, I had the DX Bavarian a little too high and had to lower it, but once I did that... EUREKA!

It's really not all that different from cooking -- which I also do "by the seat of my pants" in many, many cases.

Andria

 

[Vaslovik]

I make my juice in 100 ml batches with Flavor West flavorings and Nude Nicotine.

12 ml 100 proof nicotine
4.5 ml RY4
5.5ml graham cracker
4 ml Brown sugar
6 ml peanut butter
–--------
32 ml

38 ml PG
30 ml VG

 

[JohnnyDill]

Here is one of my ADV's that is worth mentioning: username tc1's recipe for "Scutch":
TFA RY4D 7%
TFA Butterscotch 3%
TFA Pistachio 3%
TFA Vanilla Swirl 3%
TFA Bavarian Cream 2%
TFA Caramel Candy 2%

-I bump up the tobacco note with Inawera Dark Tobacco. This recipe is an outstanding variant of an RY4. IMO, this combination is hard to beat while enjoying a cup of coffee.

 

[DorianC]

Never had the original, but the below is pretty awesome and I'm told it's very close if not spot on. ..

555 dk (TPA) 2%
Black Cigar (VZ) 2%
Cinnamon Danish (TPA) 1%
Commercial Cigarette (Seedman) 5%
Tobacco Absolute Virginia (INAWERA) .5%

Thanks, I'll give it a try with my variations...
Dorian

 

[Adam harris]

Simple yet effective shake and vape

TFA juicy peach 5%
TFA sweet cream 2%

Tobacco shake and vapes

Inawera little space drop 1%
Inawera dirty neutral base 1%
Inawera Virginia 1%
It just works....

Inawera gold ducat 3%

TFA banana nut bread 10%

 

[Adam harris]

Here is one of my ADV's that is worth mentioning: username tc1's recipe for "Scutch":
TFA RY4D 7%
TFA Butterscotch 3%
TFA Pistachio 3%
TFA Vanilla Swirl 3%
TFA Bavarian Cream 2%
TFA Caramel Candy 2%

-I bump up the tobacco note with Inawera Dark Tobacco. This recipe is an outstanding variant of an RY4. IMO, this combination is hard to beat while enjoying a cup of coffee.

Is the pistachio taste dominant at 3%

 

[JohnnyDill]

Is the pistachio taste dominant at 3%

Nope- not at all. The flavors are well balanced, IMO.

 

[fitzinthewindow]

I received all of my DIY supplies a couple of days ago. My first experiment was taking an existing commercial juice and increasing the nic content. I did the calculatons, mixed it up, and Voila! Worked great. My second project was a bit more involved. I mixed 7 different Capella flavors into a 12mg 70/30 VG mix to produce my DIY version of Unicorn Milk. I already had a number of different sizes of syringes from my woodworking, so I mixed up 120ml of the juice. I really didn't fumble around too much, didn't make a mess, and got it all done in just a few minutes. I then did two different 2 hour steeps in my ultrasonic cleaner, cooling in between each cycle, shook it like crazy, let it rest a day, and then--wow-the stuff is great! With everything that I purchased, I figure that I have reduced my cost of ejuice to about $1 per 15ml--a fantastic savings! I mixed up a couple of other experimental flavors that I came up with myself in small 15ml bottles, also ran the ultrasonic cycles on them, and put them away to steep for a week or two before I even try them.

All in all, if you read everything you can find on the subject, use the available calculators, and are extremely cautious and exact in your mixing, the whole process is really quite easy. It is also amazingly self-satisfying--sort of like cooking a great meal. I like this.

 

[mauricem00]

1% TFA mild black with 1% TFA bourbon vanilla. I also like 5% TFA DK Bavarian cream mixed with 5% TFA french vanilla cream. and TFA RY4 double mixed at 2%.

 

[herb]

I received all of my DIY supplies a couple of days ago. My first experiment was taking an existing commercial juice and increasing the nic content. I did the calculatons, mixed it up, and Voila! Worked great. My second project was a bit more involved. I mixed 7 different Capella flavors into a 12mg 70/30 VG mix to produce my DIY version of Unicorn Milk. I already had a number of different sizes of syringes from my woodworking, so I mixed up 120ml of the juice. I really didn't fumble around too much, didn't make a mess, and got it all done in just a few minutes. I then did two different 2 hour steeps in my ultrasonic cleaner, cooling in between each cycle, shook it like crazy, let it rest a day, and then--wow-the stuff is great! With everything that I purchased, I figure that I have reduced my cost of ejuice to about $1 per 15ml--a fantastic savings! I mixed up a couple of other experimental flavors that I came up with myself in small 15ml bottles, also ran the ultrasonic cycles on them, and put them away to steep for a week or two before I even try them.

All in all, if you read everything you can find on the subject, use the available calculators, and are extremely cautious and exact in your mixing, the whole process is really quite easy. It is also amazingly self-satisfying--sort of like cooking a great meal. I like this.

There's quite a few Unicorn Milk clones out there, i follow the leaked Cuttwood recipe (google it) and it turns out great but really needs to steep .

My Ultrasonic cleaner steeping i find doesn't help much at all , letting it sit in a cool dark place for a month works best.

 

[fitzinthewindow]

There's quite a few Unicorn Milk clones out there, i follow the leaked Cuttwood recipe (google it) and it turns out great but really needs to steep .

My Ultrasonic cleaner steeping i find doesn't help much at all , letting it sit in a cool dark place for a month works best.

Yes, the leaked Cuttwood version is what I am using also. I found that the ultrasonic helped quite a bit, but I can tell that the juice is not ready yet. I am confident that it will improve greatly the more it steeps.

 

[herb]

Yes, the leaked Cuttwood version is what I am using also. I found that the ultrasonic helped quite a bit, but I can tell that the juice is not ready yet. I am confident that it will improve greatly the more it steeps.

Yeah the Cuttwood recipe has always turned out really well , thats a winner for sure .

 

[Whitaker2472]

There was one called maidens milk that was a modified version of unicorn milk and I like it as good if not more.

 

[DorianC]

Never had the original, but the below is pretty awesome and I'm told it's very close if not spot on. ..
555 dk (TPA) 2%
Black Cigar (VZ) 2%
Cinnamon Danish (TPA) 1%
Commercial Cigarette (Seedman) 5%
Tobacco Absolute Virginia (INAWERA) .5%

I thought you might find it interesting that I made a variation of what you posted replacing ingredients I didn't have with ones I do.
Just threw it together and when I gave it a sniff, I have to say, the fragrance of it is really quite beautiful.

So I filed it away for steeping in the "better than boba?" file.
dessert ship? 2%
Black mile plus 2%
Cinnamon Danish (TPA) 1%
premium Tobacco 5%
Tobacco Absolute .5%

 

[Hans Wermhat]

I'm narrowing down on a clone (AVE Bobas bounty, hey I go for the classics ) from an initial recipe:
3% Cinnamon Danish
3% Graham Cracker
6% Black & Mild
1% Coconut
1% Mts Vape Wizard

I use the Black & Mild Super Concentrate from BCV @ 5% stand alone. I would imagine you could cut it to 3% or less in a mix. That recipe looks pretty god though.

 

[DorianC]

I use the Black & Mild Super Concentrate from BCV @ 5% stand alone. I would imagine you could cut it to 3% or less in a mix. That recipe looks pretty god though.

Thanks,
I've since taken out the Vape wizard and ran with vinegar. The aroma is improved and I'm letting it steep for the week.