I just can't taste e-liquid?

[connergob]

Hello!

I have been vaping for a year now. Obviously the ultimate goal is to stay away from the cigs but I would like to enjoy my vaping experience. No matter what juice I get, no matter what my setup is, I just can't seem to taste(or at least taste very well) my liquid. My friends will tell me to try this juice, I take a hit, and I don't taste a thing while they excitedly ask me if I think it tastes amazing too. It's just rather frustrating and I would like to know what I should do. Before you ask, I do drip, so sub-ohm tanks muting the flavor isn't the problem. I have tried juice that's supposed to have very strong flavor and I get nothing. However, my friend that just switched to vaping has a MVP 2.0 with an aspire nautilus running around 1.8 ohms. I can taste juice out of his device very well, but I that's not my style of vaping.

Any help/advice is appreciated.
Thanks!

 

[SpaceApe]

The juice that you could taste from your friends setup... Did you try dripping his juice on your setup?

 

[connergob]

He is using a high nic, around 16-18 so no I didn't drip it.

 

[AndriaD]

I'd suggest DIY ejuice with high flavoring percentages. That was what it took for me; the strawberry & cream that's been my ADV for about 11 months now is about 31% flavor. Gunks the hell out of my coils, so I had to go from a tank to a dripper so as not to waste so much ejuice, but the flavor is worth it.

You might also try adding sweetener; specifically, the TFA sweetener is the best I've tried. If something isn't sweet enough, to me it just doesn't taste like much of anything.

Andria

 

[Hans Wermhat]

+1 on DIY. But I wouldn't want to sub-ohm anything over 20% flavor. If you can't taste the juice anyway, unflavored DIY juice is super easy and so cheap it's almost free. You can make 100 ml batches for about $2 at 3 mg/ml nic strength. Add in 20% flavoring for about another $1.15 and you can still make 300 ml of juice for what you pay for a cheap 30 ml bottle. Buy better flavorings that you can use at 3 - 5% and it's even cheaper than that.

 

[Alien Traveler]

For me all commercial juices are really bad. I need to dilute them a lot to taste them. My taste buds just refuse to taste chemical cocktails that are sold as juices. But it is just my taste buds.

EDIT: because of this I was pushed to DIY at the very beginning of my vaping career.

 

[OfTheBrave]

As others have said,
Experiment with different vendors
Try adding flavor shots to juices you already like
Or try brewing your own

Also, there is going to be a "sweet spot" with every juice.
Sometimes half a volt makes all the difference in a dessert or tobacco flavor for me.