Help!

[iaswni]

Hey guys, I need some help with the juice...

I decided to experiment myself with different flavors, so recently I received base liquids ( 48mg PG nicotine) and 20 various flavors.

So I started testing a couple individually, it was quite ok, but some of the flavors have this horrifying taste that I cannot describe. It tastes like burned tire in combination with something else :S
It stays on my atty until I wash it thoroughly and it gives a feeling of gagging. It's really disgusting.

At first I thought I put too much flavoring but it's the same even for the smallest amount possible.
I experienced it the first time with chocolate, then coffee flavor, but then it was the same with vanilla(WTF) and some other fruit flavor.

Am I doing something wrong here? Have some of the flavors gone bad or something?

I'm using scubabats calculator with syringes and the cigs I tried are EGO-T, and also dripping on a mini-cig atomizer.

Please help!

 

[cookiebun]

What flavorings are you using? Are you sure they are water soluble?

 

[Mayasveil]

Cookie asks the right questions. Then what percentages are you using for your mixes? Are your bases ... pg/vg all usa / food grade?

 

[Hoosier]

If everything you mix has the same kind of flavor, the next step is to mix your nic base and your PG/VG to 2 different levels. Go with the highest nic you usually use, say 24mg, and then mix one at a very low nic, say 4mg, and then taste.

If just the unflavored base at the high nic has the same taste and it is slight in the low nic version, then it is your nic base screwing things up.

If both have the same bad taste, then it is your non-nic bases that are screwing things up.

Double check that your PG or VG is pharma-grade, not just food grade. Here in the US it will have USP on the label. In the UK it will have BP. I forget what the designation is for EU pharmaceutical grade is. (Food grade is allowed to have more impurities than pharma-grade.)

Isolate the bad components and replace, then try again. Very small things can have a huge impact on vapor flavor.

 

[Jorge22]

Everyone is right, I think. Another very obvious thing: you shouldn't have ordered 20 different flavours in a row from exactly the same manufacturer. For example, I bought 4 tobacco flavours from VaporWest through an UK seller, made sure they had no vanillin or anise (which I can't stand - and they don't) and even though they're acceptable they tend to have some kind of remedy aftertaste (and that's at only 5%). The one that doesn't is the Ankara but, to me, it tastes a lot like the Oriental, albeit much less sickening than usual (you can tell from this the Oriental isn't my favourite), only with a different name. I mixed Flavourart's Bitter Wizzard to my VW Virginia and it became, hmm, nice, even though you still have to get used to it first (but that's true to most flavours too).