Resurrecting this old one...........
This phenomena is happening to me too. I ordered 24mg VG Caramel Crisp and Java. The Caramel leaves a very heavy maple syrup aroma, the Java leaves a heavy and unpleasant soap aroma. Not only can my wife not stand the aromas and has told me to only use them outside, I cannot stand the aromas either. Oddly, the tastes are good.
I am using these on my V9 w/ brand new, never filled carts. None of my other liquids, VG or PG, do this.
Thank you for posting about this. I am having a terrible time with it because the aroma is so strong that 1) my family finds it very unpleasant and long lasting, and 2) strangers now turn around and stare at me when I vape trying to figure out what I am doing with the strong, cheap smelling perfume (Sorry, Jaaxx & Mrs. Jaaxx, but I had someone ask me just that).
I got a bunch of the fruit flavors, and they all seem alike to me with the same very strong smell that lingers for days. I also cannot get the smell off of the attys or cartridges I use, so they will soon be trash. I can't say much about the flavors because the odor is so overpowering that it is all I really notice.
I am glad (for my sanity) that this isn't just my nose... I just can't believe that all the juice is this way or we would be hearing it... trust me, this is a noticeable nasty smell. I would have to assume that something has happened to the VG or the mix.. but I can't figure out which. I was going to be starting up some video reviews of all my juice vendors, but think I will wait and order some more from JL and see if it does the same thing before I review it... I won't be nasty in either case, cause the juice vapes so well and tastes very very good... just leaves a nasty odor....I wish I could figure out which flavor it is for sure so I could continue vaping it.. but I am facing the wrath of my wife if that smell shows itself again...
I'm sorry that I didn't jump in sooner when I saw your post, but I had used the VG base with "regular" flavorings from Jaaxx for so long with no strong smell problem that I could hardly believe what I was experiencing.
I have no idea where Jaaxx gets his VG based flavorings, but I was fascinated by a thread here in the general vaping section about the obnoxious, long lasting smell of Dekang juices. People who posted hated it and couldn't understand why more Dekang juice people weren't posting about it. Then, it became clear that most of the people posting were VG users. I didn't post there either because I have been meaning to send a PM to Jaaxx (sorry to be doing this publicly, Jaaxx).
Now, I have a very serious dilemma. Using a VG base but a flavoring even with a little bit of PG in it gives me a horrible flair up of my fibromyalgia pain that lasts so long as I am vaping anything with any PG in it. Before I started using Jaaxx's all VG, I was taking codeine daily to be able to vape, often a number of times per day. Now, I cannot find another type of flavoring without some PG, and the aroma of this stuff is so unacceptable that I am back up to 8 or 9 analogs a day from a three month period of 5 or 6 per day. The difference may not seem like a lot, but it is very significant to me.
I know that some people can taste flavors that other folks can't taste (experiments in college basic biology class eons ago), so it is also logical to me that some people may smell things that others don't smell as strongly. I will say, though, that everyone I have vaped this stuff around has commented about the odor.
Jaaxx, is there any other option for flavoring without any PG other than wherever you are getting this VG flavoring? (I'm not saying it's Dekang, but it's something that doesn't work for some of us.) I don't know what to do and I find myself vaping less and less as I limit myself to this type of flavoring to avoid pain.
Jaaxx & Mrs. Jaaxx, I want to commend you both for caring enough about those of us who cannot use PG and working to accomodate us with VG flavoring. I more than appreciate your honest concern for us, particularly since we are a small minority of your business. I love your site and your "regular" flavors but find the pain of regular flavoring intolerable.
BTW, I could smell the strong perfume smell from the outside of the envelop when it arrived, but I hoped that it was only one thing in the group of flavorings I had ordered. Yeah, it's that strong, even through closed bottles for me. Oh, and, no, none of the other juices I have gotten from you over the months had any sort of bad odor (but the flavoring contained PG). Can you help?
