FA Chocolate or Cocoa?

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Hoosier

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IMO, neither by themselves.

The chocolate had just a hint of chocolate with no body and heavy metallic tones.

Coca was better with body but the bitter aftertaste really hung around.

I like to use the coca as an adder to other flavors, but haven't found a good use for the chocolate yet. (A touch of coca on a deep tobacco flavor adds quite a bit of body and makes it a richer flavor.)
 

Tor

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Thanks for the replies.

I was actually thinking of using it with tobacco flavor. Thinking that most commercial analogs add chocolate flavor among the 4000 other chemicals, that it would be good to make vape similar experience.

I didn't do any DIY before, but considering strongly to get into it. I am not an impulsive person so I have now looked at a filled cart on FA website for 2 days to figure out if I get the right stuff.

Think that a cig flavor, dark vapure seems most appealing, combined with cocoa, anise or licorice, whiskey, and a hint of coffee and a pico pico amount of menthol. Will probably be very difficult to get the relationships right. So I will start out with simpler mixes.

Also, I saw a youtube video with a guy mixing 10% flavor mixes in 5 ml bottles (1/2 ml flavor and 4 1/2 ml PG).
I guess that will make it a lot easier to measure the the flavor?
Even making it possible to add e.g. menthol to the point that it is almost undetectable (like in non-menthol analogs)?
And would it be correct to assume that it would also serve as to pre-steep the flavors?

I was thinking to make mixing easier, to make a mark in the mixing bottle where the desired liquid level - e.g. 5 ml bottle. Measure and mark of exactly the 5 ml level:

1) Then add the correct calculated amount of PG/Nicotine for the desired strength
2) The desired flavor, now 1/2 ml of the premixed for 1%
3) Add the % of VG desired
4) Top off to the mark with PG

Any pitfalls with this method? Only obvious problem is if adding a many flavors, maybe it would better to premix the flavors 20%?
 
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lamer

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Pitfalls is air bubbles -- should really use a pipette or syringe for the most accurate measurement.

FA Chocolate just feels empty to me. I am on a quest to make a good VG-based Cafe Mocha and the FA Chocolate didn't work at low or high levels. I just got FA Cocoa and will see if that will do it. I also ordered some Capellas chocolate flavors to test as well.
 
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