I recently posted another thread asking about flavor %s for Flavor Apprentice. I had made some strawberry juice at 20% which was way way to high. After reading the Flavor Apprentice thread and reading what some experienced vapers had to say I made a second batch of strawberry at 10%. Taste pretty good, may jump it to 12%. My question is, let us say I'm going to make strawberry vanilla. Do a keep my strawberry at 10% and add vanilla to that % or do I have to subtract from strawberry % by what I add in vanilla?
example. strawberry 10% vanilla 2% = flavor % of juice at 12%
or
strawberry 8% vanilla 2% = flavor % of juice at 10%
As long as I don't over do one flavor, the total % shouldn't matter I guess is a better way to say it?
Thanks,
Joe
I think what you will find the More you use One Makers flavors is they tend to have Relatively the same Strength for each Class of Flavoring.
By this I mean that Most of The Flavor Apprentice (TFA) fruit flavors have about the same strength. Not Everyone of them. But pretty close.
So if I make a TFA Strawberry and the Magic Number for me is 12% Flavorings, then if I want to make Pineapple Strawberry, then my Rule of Thumb is to Keep the Total Combined Flavors at 12%.
Then I just decide which Flavor I want to be the Main Flavor. I'll chose Strawberry. So I might start off with 10% Strawberry and 2% Pineapple and see how it goes.
The same goes for the "Brown" Flavors. Caramel, Chocolates, Butterscotch, etc. But in the "Brown" Flavors there is One Flavor that Tends to Dominate ALL other Flavors even at Small Amounts. And that is Vanilla.
It takes VERY little Vanilla to make a Blend taste like Pour Vanilla. And Adding More of the Other Flavors (exceeding your Magic Number of Total Combined Flavorings) just makes the Mix taste Bad.
If you like Vanilla and want to use it to Mix with Other Flavors like Strawberry, Many find it Easier to Make a 30ml Bottle of Vanilla e-Liquid and Perfect it. The make a 30ml bottle of Strawberry and Perfect it. Then find the Final Mix Ratio of Vanilla to Strawberry by adding a
Small amount of the Finished Vanilla e-Liquid into a Empty Bottle and Adding Finished Strawberry e-Liquid, Taste, Add, Taste, Add, Taste until it is what you like.
Of Course, you have to Keep Notes on what you did. Else you will Not Be Able to Replicate it in the Future. But that goes for ALL DIY.
Last Thing, Vanilla is Just that, Vanilla. And By Nature, like Many Flavors, it is NOT Sweet. So when you Think about Vanilla, you should Also think about a Sweetener.
There are Many Pits Falls that people who Do DIY Fall Into. But I think perhaps the Biggest is Not Using Sweeteners. And thinking that their Flavorings are Sweet on their own. Which Many are NOT.
Hope this Helps. And gives you some things to Think about.
