FIIIIINALLY!

[Foggy Road]

I just started vaping in June last year and I I'm luvin it. Started TRYING to DIY around August-September. Wanted soooo badly to recreated a 'Watermelon Rancher' flavor from a local shop. I swear it's like slamming your face into the dark sweet tenderloin of the melon and just schlurpin away. Saw some posts that made it sound sooooo simple. Several posts said just Loranns Watermelon at 10% gave them a flavor described as exactly what I wanted. Got the concentrate mixed some up at every % imaginable from 5-30. Nuthin! Through that entire range everything had the same barely perceptible watermelon taste!

I have extremely limited time for this and took to cutting budget priced juice 50/50 and adjusting the nic. Pretty good deal to buy 120ml fer $20, make it 240ml and hardly notice the difference in flavor, cool.

Finally decided to pick a recipe and give SOMETHING another go. Eh, well it had flavor at least but not what I'd imagined.

Then I noticed some folks raving about OSDIY Blue Raspberry Slush as a standalone flavor and decided to give it a try. While I was there I decided grab some others that sounded like they'd work as standalones. Really pleased with what I got. Not impressed with the Blue Raspberry Slush... To much Slush, not enuf Berry but I can work on that. Several of the others are very good. Old Tyme Root Beer, Strawberry Milk (again light on the Berry but still tastey), Sweet Southern Tea (schlurp), Pink Lemonade. All very tastey enjoyable standalones.

Fiiiiinally I'm making some juice that's not just good enuf but actually quite pleasant and enjoyable.

Now I can enjoy those while I search for the recipe and concentrates that will get me my lush, sweet in my face watermelon juice. Or any melon actually.

I'm coming round the bend with my DIY and very happy about it.

 

[mhertz]

A truly amazing watermelon/candy flavor that rocks standalone is molinberry's big watermelon found e.g. here:

Big Watermelon

8'ish percent, shake 'n vape and bam - melon-candy in your face

Flavor-review/notes by ECF'er Aurora-Oblivion:

Flavoring aroma in bottle - Sweet watermelon candy, makes me want a piece now! No "rind" scent

E-liquid aroma in bottle - Light sweetness, faint watermelon

Big Watermelon is a very interesting flavor! I love the sweetness that the higher flavoring percentages brings to the table, it's a candy-like sweet, almost cotton candy like but nothing like you'd expect if you're thinking EM smell/flavor. While EM smell and flavor does remind you of cotton candy, and does taste and smell like it, it's not quite 100% true to the flavor. With Big Watermelon at higher percentages you can taste a real cotton candy type flavor in there, it's very intriguing to taste in a vape, wish I had some in a bottle as an alternative to EM because I think that would be a much better flavor to use opposed to EM when needing to round flavors out with a little mouth-feel and sweetness. This flavor aspect stays on your lips and in your mouth for a while, it's a interesting and tasty effect!

At lower percentages this flavor tastes like a fresh bowl of watermelon water/juice, it's very refreshing and has NO taste of rind like many other watermelon flavors tend to have. As you increase the flavoring levels it turns into a much sweeter candy like watermelon flavor, not Jolly Rancher like, but much more of a fresh "candied" flavor instead of actually being an over-sweetened artificial candy flavor like you'd get with a Jolly Rancher.

Recommended mix - 5-9% (Light fruity side <-> fresh candied fruit side) Extended steeping is not required for this flavor, but will round it out and smooth it over some

Overall Rating - 9/10 - This is great by itself, and I'm sure would be great in many fruit flavored mixes. I bet it would be great in tea or florals, and perfect for alcohol type mixes too! Be bold, try it with mints and menthols!

Source: Molinberry Flavoring Review - 37 Flavors From Molinshop - Add Yours Too!

 

[Foggy Road]

A truly amazing watermelon/candy flavor that rocks standalone is molinberry's big watermelon found e.g. here:

Big Watermelon

8'ish percent, shake 'n vape and bam - melon-candy in your face

Flavor-review/notes by ECF'er Aurora-Oblivion:

Source: Molinberry Flavoring Review - 37 Flavors From Molinshop - Add Yours Too!

Thank you @mhertz I've been planning my next order to be some throat hit nic. I'll add that to my order. If it's good I'll be looking for a source of bigger Bottles tho.

 

[mhertz]

Cool and you're welcome The 100ml bottles you can get cheap at molinshop.com, but the shipping takes some time(2-3 weeks) unless selecting DHL(2 days) and paying a little more, but it's still cheaper than in the states I believe. Btw, molinberry is a brand from the same people(chemnovatic) that makes the nic used in the premium/throat-hit nic of vaperstek. Many of there flavors rock, e.g sweet strawberry, funky pineapple and glamour chocolate etc... I'm a big inawera and molinberry fan personally, as many of them are great and even standalone often, which is rarer with e.g. TFA etc. There's a bunch of raving molinberry youtube reviews out there too...