So I've only ever used TFA (Or TPA, whichever you wanna call it) flavorings... Price is right from their main website and I like the flavors for the most part. Only real thing I don't like is their chocolate, only tried the Double Chocolate (Dark) but it's just terrible. Anyone have suggestions for a good chocolate flavor? (I probably wouldn't use it straight, but use it for mixing in other flavors)
Good chocolate flavor?
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Have you tried their double chocolate (clear)? I didn't like it at first but I added a bit of TFA's French vanilla and it toned down and brought out the sweet chocolate favour and made it pop in a better way 
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Of the many I've tried, the most realistic I've found is FlavourArt's Cocoa (not Chocolate) flavor, especially if mixed (3-5%) with Vapers Tek nicotine. In fact, all the chocolates taste a lot better with super-clean nic - but Cocoa is by far the winner to me. It's a dark chocolate flavor. Capella's Chocolate Glazed Doughnut added to a recipe at 2% or so gives a candy-coating flavor. I didn't like it standalone, but it's the right one for the coating in candy bar recipes. (disclaimer, the Capellas probably has 'custard note' ingredients, but FlavourArt does not)
Double Chocolate Dark is heavy Alcohol and needs time (steeping) for the Alcohol to dissipate.
Double Chocolate (Dark) is super overpowering and needs time to steep on its own to get rid of the alcohol.
I usually use it at 3% or less, and I use double chocolate (clear) around 5-8%.
Try the clear, it's a different animal. Tastes more like subtle hints of milk chocolate, almost like a candy bar, while dark tastes more like cake or brownies.
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I usually use it at 3% or less, and I use double chocolate (clear) around 5-8%.
Try the clear, it's a different animal. Tastes more like subtle hints of milk chocolate, almost like a candy bar, while dark tastes more like cake or brownies.
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Chocolate needs vanilla to make it taste good. I wish I could be more specific, but I am still fooling with it. So far, more vanilla than chocolate seems to be getting me closest.
My fave so far is OoO's double dutch chocolate. Their milk chocolate candy bar is okay too, but not as rich. I'm still playing with them, but double dutch at 8% plus marshmallow at 2% is really good. I like it like that, or mixed with other juices, like toasted almond, coffee, cinnamon roll, and 7 leaves.
Interested in this too.
Wondering if adding a little bit of TFA Brown Sugar Extra might help?
I like wizard labs double chocolate..... Yummy
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Things that make chocolate go *POP!*
Percentages/amounts should be untasteable...unless you want to taste them:
Saline! Chocolate is never what it could/can be without a bit of salt
Vanilla! ditto above
Coffee/Espresso
Cinnamon
Hot Pepper
Percentages/amounts should be untasteable...unless you want to taste them:
Saline! Chocolate is never what it could/can be without a bit of salt
Vanilla! ditto above
Coffee/Espresso
Cinnamon
Hot Pepper
Have you tried their double chocolate (clear)? I didn't like it at first but I added a bit of TFA's French vanilla and it toned down and brought out the sweet chocolate favour and made it pop in a better way
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What %s are you using on these? I have a couple bottles (due to user error
) and would like to try your mix. Thanks!
What %s are you using on these? I have a couple bottles (due to user error
11% percent double chocolate clear
9% nic
Max VG
It was a 30ml bottle of juice. I let it sit for about a week and when I tried it... It wasn't great to say the least. So I added 1ml of TFA French vanilla and boom it was great. I'm not sure what the percentage on that is though
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Hi All! It's been a while since I've spent much time here in ECF. It hard to believe how much it's grown! HeadInClouds, I like the look of your recipes. Thanks so much for taking the time to write out your recipes and share them! I've been doing DIY for at least 5 years. FlavourArt Cocoa was my favorite dark chocolate flavor. It is a staple in my flavorings stash. When I first bought it, I had to get it from Canada. Then it was from the first vendor who sold it in USA (I think from FreedomSmokesUSA), then from Liberty Flights. then EcigXpress. It had no sediment until I bought it from EcigXpress (5-6 mls of opaque light brown in bottom of 30 ml bottle.) When I bought it from the previous vendors, it was dark brown and had no sediment or cloudiness. Its appearance was like freshly brewed strong coffee and never had or developed any sediment. I went ahead and used the bottle from EcigXpress after shaking it up. It tasted the same as usual, but it clogged up a cartomizer really fast (like in one or two days). Usually I could use one carto for a week. I have been using it mostly for a mint chocolate flavor. I just might try Vapers Tek nicotine too. The last I got from RTS Vapes was really peppery.
While I was recently "shopping" at RTS Vapes to buy some base liquids and nicotine, I noticed they were carrying FlavourArt. (Always love when I can buy as many supplies as possible from one vendor!) So I contacted them and asked if their FA Cocoa had any sediment. They said yes and described what I saw in the bottle I had bought from EcigXpress.
Have you or anyone else had this sediment problem? Of the hundreds of dollars I've spent on my flavoring collection, this is the only flavoring I've seen this sediment thing happen. I am puzzled. I've just been using Perfumer's Apprentice Double Dark Chocolate and it's not bad. In fact it is small part of my regular chocolate mint recipe. But FA Cocoa is the best dark chocolate flavoring I've tried. I miss it. So I am wondering from where you or any others get your FA Cocoa.
Janet, I've gotten it from RTSVapes, purevapes, and ECigExpress. It's the only flavoring I have more than 1-2 bottles of, that's how much I like it. It's the darkest and thickest flavoring I use, too. (I've had many darker/thicker flavorings, but don't use them any more.) My bottles of Cocoa all look as you describe, at least after sitting undisturbed for a day or more. I generally stay under 3-5%, and my coils do okay. At 2% or so as an ingredient, I have no trouble. I've never known it to be different, but I've DIY'ed less than a year. (I use mostly small tanks, like mini-Protank clones.)
I have many flavorings with some sediment or particles, especially 'natural' and 'organic' flavorings, especially in cool temperatures. When they're warmed up a bit, they generally clear/dissipate. Nature's Flavors organics has several that don't clear up regardless of heat and shaking; they have 'floaties' regardless. The dust-fine particles that settle in FA Cocoa are barely noticeable by comparison.
I just put a 10ml glass vial of Cocoa (last shaken yesterday) in a cup of warm water.... It's very runny, and when I tip the bottle to see if any deposit remains - I don't see it. I suspect that tipping the warmed bottle was enough to move it around, though, and there wasn't much settled to begin with.
I sure recommend that VT nic - I'd love to hear your reaction to the flavor change in FA Cocoa. I'm sure enjoying it more than ever! I don't need as much flavoring to get the same flavor strength, so that helps coils stay cleaner, too.
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I can't get past Inawera Chocolate Cream...I couldn't stand anything any better. Im addicted
Thanks Jules, Mine looks just like that, except not as much sediment/light color. What % do you use? Have you noticed it clogging your atty coils sooner than other flavorings?
I tried the double chocolate clear from TFA and it's not the chocolate taste I was looking for. It taste more like a tootsie roll.
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