So today I received my first order from GotVapes.com. I decided to give their Flux Nectar e-liquids a whirl. The prices are great for 36ml bottles, and they have a really nice list of flavors.
I ordered:
Second, the smell/taste is STRONG. Not necessarily a bad thing... some of my previous liquids had great flavors, but after a couple hours of vaping you could forget what they were. My wife commented on the smell almost immediately -- this had me a bit taken back, as up until this point none of the liquids I've used had a noticeable "second-hand" smell, so I vape in my home office and around the house after the baby is asleep. Not sure if my whole house is going to smell like Flux Nectar now.
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Overall: Nice vapor production, decent throat-hit.
Pyramid Fusion -- Not what I was expecting. I was a Camel smoker for most of my 13 years of smoking, and I previously tried ElixirLiquid's Kamel which was quite nice, and I was expecting a similar blend here. This is something else entirely. A nutty, burnt cocoa with no discernible trace of tobacco. Nice, but maybe a little overpowering on the cocoa. I'll see how I'm liking it after a full day of vaping, rather than just a quick tank to try it out.
Strawberry Peach -- Name says it all. Sweet ripe strawberries with a hint of fresh-cut peaches. Sweet and flavorful without being cloying. I normally reserve the "tobacco" flavors for my all-day vaping, and break out the sweet stuff late at night... but this could become a must-have regular in the rotation.
Caramel Apple -- Hard to describe this one. I believe their website says it's red apple as opposed to green, and that makes sense... but it's not the old candied apple flavor I was eagerly anticipating. It's not really sweet... The caramel and apple notes are noticeable, but they seem to clash rather than mesh. It's not unvapeable, but first impressions are disappointing. The top note is smoky, almost bad, I dare say like smoking some sort of unidentifiable material that should never be smoked.... then underneath that, the weaker caramel and red apple flavors fight it out.
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Anybody else try these flavors? Other impressions on these particular flavors, or Flux Nectar in general? Am I going to be sitting on several dozen mL of juice I'm not that impressed with?
I've seen the concept of "letting juices steep" in the forums alot since I've returned to vaping.... my first several bottles of liquid were purchased from a local smoke shop where they've likely been sitting in the display case for weeks before I got ahold of them, so they were probably "pre-steeped".... can anyone advise if steeping will benefit these flavors, and make them more palatable, since I just received these a few hours ago?
Thanks for reading my rant.....
I ordered:
- Pyramid Fusion -- 24mg
- Strawberry Peach -- 17mg
- Caramel Apple -- 11mg (though I received 24mg)
Second, the smell/taste is STRONG. Not necessarily a bad thing... some of my previous liquids had great flavors, but after a couple hours of vaping you could forget what they were. My wife commented on the smell almost immediately -- this had me a bit taken back, as up until this point none of the liquids I've used had a noticeable "second-hand" smell, so I vape in my home office and around the house after the baby is asleep. Not sure if my whole house is going to smell like Flux Nectar now.
---
Overall: Nice vapor production, decent throat-hit.
Pyramid Fusion -- Not what I was expecting. I was a Camel smoker for most of my 13 years of smoking, and I previously tried ElixirLiquid's Kamel which was quite nice, and I was expecting a similar blend here. This is something else entirely. A nutty, burnt cocoa with no discernible trace of tobacco. Nice, but maybe a little overpowering on the cocoa. I'll see how I'm liking it after a full day of vaping, rather than just a quick tank to try it out.
Strawberry Peach -- Name says it all. Sweet ripe strawberries with a hint of fresh-cut peaches. Sweet and flavorful without being cloying. I normally reserve the "tobacco" flavors for my all-day vaping, and break out the sweet stuff late at night... but this could become a must-have regular in the rotation.
Caramel Apple -- Hard to describe this one. I believe their website says it's red apple as opposed to green, and that makes sense... but it's not the old candied apple flavor I was eagerly anticipating. It's not really sweet... The caramel and apple notes are noticeable, but they seem to clash rather than mesh. It's not unvapeable, but first impressions are disappointing. The top note is smoky, almost bad, I dare say like smoking some sort of unidentifiable material that should never be smoked.... then underneath that, the weaker caramel and red apple flavors fight it out.
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Anybody else try these flavors? Other impressions on these particular flavors, or Flux Nectar in general? Am I going to be sitting on several dozen mL of juice I'm not that impressed with?
I've seen the concept of "letting juices steep" in the forums alot since I've returned to vaping.... my first several bottles of liquid were purchased from a local smoke shop where they've likely been sitting in the display case for weeks before I got ahold of them, so they were probably "pre-steeped".... can anyone advise if steeping will benefit these flavors, and make them more palatable, since I just received these a few hours ago?
Thanks for reading my rant.....
