Help with blue raspberry flavor

[kzr22]

I'd like some help with my blue raspberry flavor as its the only one I really can't seem to get right. I'm focusing on clearomizers to make juices for my friends so the recipe is as follows,

50/50 pg/vg
10% Raspberry (sweet) - TPA
2% Circus cotton candy - TPA

The circus cotton candy is supposed to be blue cotton candy so I thought together they would make something similar to blue raspberry. I know TPA has a blue raspberry flavoring but I've heard bad things so I decided to try to mix my own. The circus cotton candy is very strong and even at 2% I barely taste the raspberry and the juice is very sweet and sugary.

Initially I mixed it with an additional 1% of TPA cotton candy (not the circus version) which is just ethyl maltol in PG but I decided to take it out when I realized it was too sweet.

I'd like to stick with TPA flavors if thats possible. Should I order some sour flavor to balance it out? Do I need to scrap the circus cotton candy all together? Even more raspberry?

Obviously I'll continue to experiment myself, but I'd like the opinions of some people with more experience.

Thanks!

 

[Marc411]

I've found that a little TFA sweet and tart helps raspberry. I struggled myself mixing raspberry and adding 1% - 2% really brought the raspberry forward. I haven't played with the Blue Raspberry yet but I'm a big fan of the Raspberry Sweet

 

[kzr22]

I've found that a little TFA sweet and tart helps raspberry. I struggled myself mixing raspberry and adding 1% - 2% really brought the raspberry forward. I haven't played with the Blue Raspberry yet but I'm a big fan of the Raspberry Sweet

Hmmm this might be a good addition, I use the raspberry (sweet) with lemon to make a raspberry lemonade I really like. Might be the sweet and tart could help both mixes. Thanks!

 

[Krazychic]

Try mixing TFA juicy peach with raspberry and it'll give you a really nice blue raspberry flavor. I found this, which is supposed to be clone of Blue Voodoo
.. I've been mixing 5% Juicy Peach with 8% raspberry. That's my version of blue raspberry for now... You can also add 1% cotton candy to sweeten it

 

[kzr22]

Try mixing TFA juicy peach with raspberry and it'll give you a really nice blue raspberry flavor. I found this, which is supposed to be clone of Blue Voodoo
.. I've been mixing 5% Juicy Peach with 8% raspberry. That's my version of blue raspberry for now... You can also add 1% cotton candy to sweeten it

Surprised a peach flavor would have anything to do with blue raspberry. Any theories as to why this works? I'll definitely consider it. To clarify you are talking about the cotton candy which is just ethyl maltol not the circus cotton candy right?

 

[Krazychic]

Yes, just the regular Cotton Candy. And as far as the peach idea goes, I'm guessing they must have some similar flavor molecules. Lots of people have tried this and it's worked, but it'll need to steep a couple days. I hope this will work for you too!