Since I understood virtually nothing our resident scientist/math wiz wrote in the other flavoring thread, I'll start a new one.
Last week, I was looking for a tube-cylinder small enough to carry in the Janty Kissbox tote case. That tote case, for those who don't have one, is wallet-sized, with insets to accept batteries and switches, etc. I needed a tube roughly the size of a Janty battery to fit into a slot.
Then it struck me: The fragrance sample tubes using for men's colognes would be perfect. I have tons of 'em. I found a Ralph Lauren Polo tube and emptied its contents down the sink. Whoa. The entire room smelled of Polo. So did every other sink drain in the house!
I washed the tube thoroughly with tap water to get rid of the perfume. Then I filled it with home brew liquid and took it with me. These perfume tubes absolutely never leak. That would be a disaster. And mine didn't leak. Later, I poured a few drops into a drying cartridge and began puffing at my daughter's house. Hmmm. I smelled/tasted Polo. My daughter asked where the sweet smell was coming from. Yikes. The tube had contained enough fragrance to change the e-liquid fluid! It now tasted of Polo.
I emptied it, cleaned it, packed it with baking soda to absorb the odor and let it sit for a week. Then I washed it and started over again. But I'd learned something about essential oils and fragrance. You don't need to see them to get a hit from them. In fact, nasal snuff and pipe tobacco will absorb the taste/aroma of any strong fragrance left with them in a closed tin!
To start with, I put 1mg of e-liquid in a vial. It was a home brew, vanilla base. Then I pulled out three bottles of essential oils used to add fragrance for soap making: Vanilla, grape and peach. Believe it or not, those are the most popular choices among buyers of "aromatic" cigars, along with strawberry.
I decided to go with peach, the flavor of the last "little cigars" that I used regularly before quitting. I dipped a toothpick into the peach oil and let some soak in. Then I put the toothpick in the 1mg vial of e-liquid. I left it perhaps 10 seconds and removed it. No drip. No measurable amount.
And the peach flavor and odor is mind-bogglng as I'm now puffing peach e-liquid.
I filled my Polo tube.
Ready.
Last week, I was looking for a tube-cylinder small enough to carry in the Janty Kissbox tote case. That tote case, for those who don't have one, is wallet-sized, with insets to accept batteries and switches, etc. I needed a tube roughly the size of a Janty battery to fit into a slot.
Then it struck me: The fragrance sample tubes using for men's colognes would be perfect. I have tons of 'em. I found a Ralph Lauren Polo tube and emptied its contents down the sink. Whoa. The entire room smelled of Polo. So did every other sink drain in the house!
I washed the tube thoroughly with tap water to get rid of the perfume. Then I filled it with home brew liquid and took it with me. These perfume tubes absolutely never leak. That would be a disaster. And mine didn't leak. Later, I poured a few drops into a drying cartridge and began puffing at my daughter's house. Hmmm. I smelled/tasted Polo. My daughter asked where the sweet smell was coming from. Yikes. The tube had contained enough fragrance to change the e-liquid fluid! It now tasted of Polo.
I emptied it, cleaned it, packed it with baking soda to absorb the odor and let it sit for a week. Then I washed it and started over again. But I'd learned something about essential oils and fragrance. You don't need to see them to get a hit from them. In fact, nasal snuff and pipe tobacco will absorb the taste/aroma of any strong fragrance left with them in a closed tin!
To start with, I put 1mg of e-liquid in a vial. It was a home brew, vanilla base. Then I pulled out three bottles of essential oils used to add fragrance for soap making: Vanilla, grape and peach. Believe it or not, those are the most popular choices among buyers of "aromatic" cigars, along with strawberry.
I decided to go with peach, the flavor of the last "little cigars" that I used regularly before quitting. I dipped a toothpick into the peach oil and let some soak in. Then I put the toothpick in the 1mg vial of e-liquid. I left it perhaps 10 seconds and removed it. No drip. No measurable amount.
And the peach flavor and odor is mind-bogglng as I'm now puffing peach e-liquid.
I filled my Polo tube.
Ready.
