I have been using Capellas sweet strawberry as my ADV for about 6 months. The last bottle i ordered from ECX taste different so i thought it may be a bad batch. So i waited about 2 weeks and ordered a new bottle from ECX and still taste different. Anyone else notice this or is my taste buds going crazy?
Has anyone noticed a change in Capellas sweet strawberry
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I've had major consistance problems from ECX so it's likely not your taste buds. If you can find another place to source this flavor from I would do so.
For Capella flavors, I order straight from the source.
Capella Flavor Drops - Over 75+ Water Soluble Concentrated Flavorings
Capella Flavor Drops - Over 75+ Water Soluble Concentrated Flavorings
I've noticed that if the Flavor gets old it won't taste right, I remember Capella dumping old stock awhile back and people complained
I have gotten a bit leery about ordering from distributors who buy in bulk, then break into smaller containers. I can't help but wonder how fresh the flavors are. Am I getting the last 10ml from a liter bottle they bought many months ago? Profit margin will motivate them to buy very large sizes, reducing their cost per ml. But, if they guess wrong on demand, they'll be shipping from that same bottle months or (gasp) a year later. When I see a flavor at a special price, I wonder if they're getting rid of the dregs from the bottom of the bottle.
Having a distributor who carries multiple brands is certainly more convenient and reduces my shipping charges. However, I wonder what price I pay in freshness for this convenience. And, I use a wide variety of flavors, most of which a 10ml bottle could last me over a year. If the flavoring is already old when I first get it, it'll be stale after I've only gotten a few months out of it.
Can't criticize the distributors. It's not practical to expect them to dump half a liter of flavoring because it's getting stale and hasn't sold as well as they expected. But, I'd love to be a fly on the wall at their facility and have an idea of exactly what I'm buying.
Oh well, not sure what the solution is to this. I believe (or at least guess) that in the chemical industry, lots are tracked and whenever a drum is broken down into smaller shipments, each smaller container is marked with a lot number and date code. Probably too much to expect a flavor vendor to adopt that policy.
I guess my whole point to your post is that I wager a guess that you got 'old inventory'. Just a hunch.
P.S. - full disclosure. I recently purchased some Hangsen flavors on special from ECX and they tasted excellent. I hadn't bought them before so I don't have a point of comparison. Regardless, the mixes were very tasty at the normal Hangsen 6% I generally use.
I guess we'll never know. One vendor I plan to start shopping is BuyHangsen.com. They sell sealed bottles from Hangsen with mfgr date and use-by date on the bottle.
It would be nice to be able to eliminate this variable from the equation.
Who says that won't happen going direct?
There are very popular flavors and not so popular flavors. But Cake Batter, Golden Pineapple, and Sweet Strawberry should always be fresh no matter where you buy. Some might think DIY'ers are the only ones buying this stuff retail but vendors are too. I know vape shop owners who sell around 2,000+ bottles of juice a week that don't even buy direct. Even with mixing that much juice they would rather buy 4-8oz bottles weekly rather than liters taking up needed space. The same with hardware you can buy a thousand Ego batteries for about $1 each like Ebay power sellers do. Stores need more variety and buy smaller amounts from distributors.
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