Do you find most online juice reviews to be accurate?

[Rachel-E]

I have only been vaping for a couple of months. I have been ordering a lot of juices from different venders. I have been choosing which ones to try mainly based on the reviews on the venders websites. I've found several that have been quite good but for the most part they are never as good as the reviews I read. I usually lean more towards the fruit and dessert types. Reviews will say it tastes just like your actually eating it. I have never found a juice that is that flavorful. I am letting them steep for at least a week before trying them. I have a Joye 510 dripping atty that I use to try all of my juices. I use an Itaste vv with Aspire bdc's and Kanger mini protank II's.

I realize that taste is subjective but I wonder if I'm doing something wrong. Is my equipment muting the taste? Have my taste buds not quite recovered? Or do people tend to exaggerate how good juices are in reviews.

 

[Mutescream]

I think it is a number of things. I personally hate kanger bdc's, as they mute the holy heck out of flavor, imo. I had a tank cracking cinnamon, that I couldn't taste in a ptII at all.

Then there is the recovering taste buds thing. There is a juice I really liked about a month and a half ago, but now it makes me about gag on how strong/sweet it is.

I have had nothing ever successfully trick my mind into thinking I was eating, but I did find a vape that is a dead ringer for tasting like pumkin pie. A shame that everything else I've tried to vape by that manufacturer has been horrible.

 

[iamzg]

Taste is too subjective to really break down like that IMHO. I just see if it has positive reviews before I order it.

 

[AmandaD]

Reviews on vendors website are suspect - they usually only post the good reviews. I find I get better information by reading around on Google and in the forums. I've bought from vendors that had amazing reviews on their website ony to find it was totally tasteless. If I'd Googled it before buying I would have read that other people also found this.

 

[Mturner262]

I've only had 1 juice that I agreed with the reviews, that was demeters harvest but it was after it steeped for 2 weeks that I saw what they were talking about. A lot if my juices I love but do not taste any of the things the reviewers tasted. I just got some AIV crunkberry that EVERYONE said tasted just like cpt crunchberries. I don't see it, maybe after it sits a while but my first thought after tasting it was "jelly belly's popcorn flavor jelly beans" lol. I guess everyone's taste is different, I've always wondered about people that like onions, "could they possibly be tasting the same thing I taste when I eat them?" I guess vapes are the same deal.

 

[wildxcard]

So far I've tried Gamel, and Bobas Bounty from AVE, and one Juice called Harvest Moon Tobacco from Rocket Fuel.

Boba's didn't taste like anything at all. Not like advertised by people here on the forums, or in other reviews, but my taste buds are broken so who knows? Gamel was just awful. It tasted like smoking burning paper (don't recommend to anyone). When I got Harvest Moon I read the reviews, the first few days of smoking it I didn't taste anything except cinnamon, but a few days later after letting it sit? It is turning into exactly what the reviews said. It seems to be hit or miss really. Just follow your gut and not the trends.

 

[KODIAK (TM)]

People may as well debate whether the color red is better than blue. The opinions of e-juice are pretty much just as worthless.

I fell into that rabbit hole myself. Finally just bought a big-... bottle of unflavored nic juice and some really cheap food flavoring. I figured I can come up with crappy tasting concoctions just like everyone else but for one-tenth the price.

That said, the most helpful site I've seen that communicates juice taste would be Johnson Creek. They break each component down and put it on a scale of 1 to 8 (sweetness, tobacco taste, throat hit, etc). Still subjective but as a newbie it helped me a lot.

 

[AmandaD]

Boba's Bounty tastes totally different a) once it steeps a good long time, and b) once your tastebuds start to recover

 

[Elizabeth Baldwin]

Taste is too subjective. To you a juice may be yummy but the same exact juice might make me gag. So rave reviews means nothing when it comes to ejuice. It's best to get samplers and try out quite a few... I've learned what you think you'll like isn't always true. My tastes have changed drastically since I started vaping.

 

[oncebitten]

the first few days of smoking it I didn't taste anything except cinnamon

You should have vaped it instead of smoking it

 

[Grimwald]

Fruity on the inhale...slightly nutty on the exhale...lingering floral with just a hint of sweet. Who are these people????? I learned real early in my vaping career..."Flavor Is Subjective". For me it taste good or it tastes bad...not much in between.

 

[wildxcard]

You should have vaped it instead of smoking it

Vaping, smoking.. tomato, tomato, I'm a newbie leave me alone.

 

[NoVaWolf]

I have only been vaping for a couple of months. I have been ordering a lot of juices from different venders. I have been choosing which ones to try mainly based on the reviews on the venders websites. I've found several that have been quite good but for the most part they are never as good as the reviews I read. I usually lean more towards the fruit and dessert types. Reviews will say it tastes just like your actually eating it. I have never found a juice that is that flavorful. I am letting them steep for at least a week before trying them. I have a Joye 510 dripping atty that I use to try all of my juices. I use an Itaste vv with Aspire bdc's and Kanger mini protank II's.

I realize that taste is subjective but I wonder if I'm doing something wrong. Is my equipment muting the taste? Have my taste buds not quite recovered? Or do people tend to exaggerate how good juices are in reviews.

For me, it's a big, huge NO on the majority of reviews reflecting what I actually thought of the taste. I can't (okay, really, won't - I try not to think of it - LOL!) tell you how much money I wasted on juices that were just 'meh' or worse, nasty, that had rave reviews. Honestly, that's one of the big reasons I got into DIY within the first 2 months - I figured I could do 'meh' juices as well as anyone else, for less money and quicker than receiving a disappointing shipment. And then with some practice, I found I could make juices that were just right for my taste buds at their varying level of recovery and at the varying nic levels I needed at each point. (and, umm... let's not get into the whole 'best ever DIY flavoring' for one person isn't always the best for another - let's just say that all flavor reviews should be taken with the proverbial YMMV...)

Really, it is a wide, wide range of variables that come into play - personal taste, equipment, vendor's batches, etc. You're doing nothing wrong, you just haven't yet found your perfect 'flavor zone' yet - and here's the thing, that zone is a moving target, IME. If you've got a local vape shop that that has a tasting bar, you may be able to find the vape that's right for you right now. If you want to take control and be your own best critic, check out the DIY options - it can be a lot of fun and inexpensive, especially compared to building up a stockpile of vendor's 'meh' juices. Just a thought...

 

[oncebitten]

Vaping, smoking.. tomato, tomato, I'm a newbie leave me alone.

Definitely not picking on you... I just couldn't resist

 

[wildxcard]

Definitely not picking on you... I just couldn't resist

You're a terrible liar.

 

[ccubed]

As has been said, taste is so darned subjective. That is why I like a local B&M, Vapor Leaf because you can try before you buy. For my on-line purchases, I really like sample packs from vendors like Mr. Vape ($ 9.95 for 5 small sample bottles, you choose nic and PG/VG levels). From the sample packs, when I find something I like, then I order it in larger quantities. What has been interesting is that a couple of flavors that weren't my cup of tea when I got them tasted better after sitting for a few weeks. Aging some juices can really help. Either that or my tastes are changing over time (which I am way open to).

There is something exciting to me about trying new juices. I figure eliminating what I don't like is as valuable as finding what I do like. And thanks to folks here, I was open to trying some flavors again after a time, instead of tossing them. Though I have given some to a couple of co-workers that I didn't like and they like them. It is all subjective.

Keep the vape and namaste.

 

[Storm52]

I'm pretty much in the same house as what has been said. All subjective. Take the peach flavors. Every site I've visited will have rave reviews about tasting just like a ripe peach, including the fuzz! I've ordered small samples from several vendors. None, absolutely none, taste like a full blown mouthful of georgia peach. Without steeping, they all have a floral shop smell and taste. I will say that I purchased a honeydew from one supplier that hits it on the head. Other flavors I've tried...not so much. I think some of my issue is thinking that the taste in a vape will be exactly as the real thing. I don't think, for me right now, that will happen. Maybe in a few more months or possibly never. Too much abuse to my senses.

 

[Mikie]

Reviews are opinions. I just gave away a stash of juice i bought early on. No regrets, they just weren't for me. The cinnamon bun was good, had rave reviews but I couldn't taste it for more than a couple of minutes, because I wouldn't want to eat a cinnamon bun for more than a couple of minutes either

Plus, some people like to review things so they feel important. Do you like a steak from a Longhorn restaurant, or from a Outback restaurant more? Don't answer because I can't really decide for myself until I try them both, and your review would mean nothing to me

 

[Rachel-E]

I feel better now. At least I know I'm not the only one. Most of the juice I have bought that I liked has come from local vape shops. The only problem is none sell juice in bulk and $8-$10 for 12 mil is a little to pricey for me. I hope I will eventually find an online vender that I like well enough to buy in bulk. I have thought about going DIY but the closest I come so far is mixing two crappy tasting juices to, sometimes, come up with a not as crappy tasting juice that I can vape.