When I first started on the ecigs, I was quite happy with the premixed tobacco flavours from TW, like Hilton etc. But as my newly nonsmoking tastebuds returned to life, and after experiencing milder fruit, spice and mentholated blends like Patriot Range Patti's Wicked Mint, I then found those old flavours much too acrid and harsh tasting.
After trying every tobacco flavour on TW and failing to find anything palatable I thought I was done with baccy flavours for good. But when I was looking at the exotic flavorings on the italian flavour arts website (their main business is food flavourings), I noticed they were also doing their own "luxury" tobacco flavour blends. I ordered a bottle of their "seven leaf" flavouring.
When it arrived I was surprised to see that it was GREEN. I mixed it up to 24mg with some VG and put out in a LR 510 in my Silver Bullet with a big 3.7V battery.
It tasted raw, bitter and as green as it looked. Certainly nothing like any tobacco I ever smoked. So I put it aside and went on to experiment with mint and black pepper blends.
When I ran out of my last batch of minty black pepper yesterday I was rummaging around in my box of e-liquid mixing odds and ends when I noticed that the seven leaf mixture, having been exposed to the light for a while, had turned a rich dark brown. That looks a bit more like it, I thought, and I tried some in my SB as before. It now tasted rich, fragrant and mellow like really expensive cigarettes of the sort you get in 5 star hotels. I was overjoyed. After two years of experimentation I've finally found the perfect vape. And I'm pleased to report it goes great with a decent pint of bitter. Yum!