I do like the taste of tobacco. Most of the tobacco flavors I've triedand I've tried many!remind me of pipe tobaccos or cigars more than cigarettes. Now, for me, that's a good thing; I smoked pipes for about 20 years until a change of job made pipe-smoking inconvenient and I took up cigarettes full-time. I've always enjoyed the richness and variety in pipe tobaccos, and I've assembled quite a little stable of flavors to suit my taste and mood of the moment.
I think two reasons why it is so hardand perhaps impossibleto replicate the true taste of a cigarette (let alone a particular brand) are:
1. Taste and smell are inseparable; part of what you "taste" when smoking a real cigarette is the smell of combustion ... it's the same thing as a pile of burning leaves in the fall (Is curbside leaf burning still allowed? It was always one of my favorite aromas.), you wouldn't get the same "taste" just from munching on a mouthful of leaves. And there's no way that I know of to capture the smell of combustion in vapeable liquid form ...
2. Part of the "taste" of real cigarettes comes from the burning paper. If you've ever field-stripped a cigarette and smoked just the tobacco in a pipe, you'll know what I mean. And here again, what we're chasing is the elusive "smell of combustion" ...
All that being said, I have found three juices that capture the cigarette "taste" pretty successfully for me: Flue-Cured and Gamel, both from Alien Visions (AVE) and the other is Turkish from Halo. The first two are all VG, the latter is PG.
Others I haven't tried, but which have reputations for authentic cigarette flavor, are: Torque 56 from Halo, and USA Mix by Dekang.
