Thought I'd chime in here. The Perfumer's Apprentice has been FABULOUS for finding those "hard to find" additives. I've bought some of the Bulgarian Tobacco Absolute from them and have found the same typical results as everybody else. It's the "Greenness" that's hard to blend out. I'm actually setting any Bulgarian mixes on the backburner while I attempted an extraction.
I have a gallon mason jar with the rubber seal and metal locking lid that I thought would be PERFECT for macerating some tobacco in PG and seeing what I could get from that.
I picked up a 6oz. can of Natural Fresh Tobacco from
Fresh Choice. It was a BEAUTIFUL blend of Virginia/Burley/Oriental. The smell was.....just scrumptious.
So, I stuffed it in the gallon jar and filled it 1/3 of the way with PG.
I agitated it two-three times a day and four days later, started the extraction process. Siphoned off the solids through a metal strainer, and again through a large tea strainer to get most of the larger solids out. I put on some rubber gloves and put the solids in a flour sack cloth and squeezed as much of the liquid I could out of the remaining tobacco. Unless I have a fruit press, I'm not going to have much more luck than what I'm getting now.
I have a dozen quart mason jars with the seal lid and the metal threaded disc that secures it. I left the flad lid portion out, lined a few of the quart bottles with cone coffee filters and secured it tight with the metal rings to prevent leakage outside the bottle from the filter absorbing liquid.
I sat there pouring and topping off the mason jars as needed to get everything through.
The liquid came through VERY clear, barely any sedimentation at all. Looking at it head on it looked like a dark brown. Held up to light it was this beautiful orange/red/brown color. The aroma was beautiful as the color.
Taste test time.
Dissappointment.
VERY slight on flavor. I ended up with a quart of the maceration. So, I thought I'd hit it with a few other things. Two drops of Tobacco Key Accord, six drops of Acetylpyrazine and about a 1/2 teaspoon of Ethyl Maltol that had been melted in a little PG.
Vaped that.
Still nill on the tobacco flavor, however, I could taste MORE of the Tobacco Key Accord than I needed to. The acetylpyrazine came through louder than I wanted to as well and I couldn't taste the ethyl maltol.
I'll have to blend this out in my next batches.
Next batch, will get HOT PG. I'm sure making a PG tea will produce better taste results. I'll have to step WAY back on the aromatics and a tad more EM this time.
I'll let you cats know how that goes.
Now I don't expect anybody else will be working on such a large scale, but it might help generate some smaller scale ideas.
The flavor is very strong, woody and yes, tobacco but not really cigarette-like tobacco. I felt like I walked into a very good tobacco shop. It leaves a very slight warm licorice aftertaste that I do not mind.
