Hey, guys...I know some of you have been around for a couple of years, and have seen juices come and go. Tony's done a bang-up job of bringing us his personal opinion of the best juices MV can pair up with the "best" PVs on the market.
That being said, I have a little conundrum to sort out. Back in Jan '10, a good friend and I both bought kits from MV. We also both bought juices/pre-fillled carts, and accessories. While I leaned towards menthols and real "smoke" flavors, he went caramel/espresso and RY4. Well, I ended up inheriting my buddy's kits, along with a bottle of "original" Dekang RY4 (Tony, feel free to correct me that's what it was back then) that steeped for about 6 months before I got my hands on it. YUMMY!
So, imagine my shock and disbelief when I ordered more MV RY4 in Nov '10, only to find that not only had the flavor changed drastically, it was nearly unvapable. I still have it, steeped about 8 months, still sucks balls. So, I recently grabbed some BWB RY4 (yeah, I got lucky). It's good on the Lux carto (non-XL or dual-coil), but it doesn't have the "wow-factor" that the original Dekang RY4 had. I know, blasphemy for not saying BWB is the best thing I've ever vaped, but we all have our prefs...
So, I've been reading in the e-liquids forum that a high-level employee left Dekang around the same time I bought, taking the RY4 formula with him, and the company had to scramble to put something together, to many boos from the US and probably China as well. They've supposedly been tweaking it since, but I'm so gunshy over buying any more RY4 until I can be assured that I'll get "that old thang back". BWB is the first RY4 I've bought since that last MV bottle.
So, to wrap this up: Has Dekang managed to restore something close to their original Ry4, or has it been lost forever, to be replaced with reasonable facsimiles and artisan interpretations? Anybody know of one that is "CLOSE" to the old formula, and does MV now have something that can rival it?
(We all know we'd rather buy from MV than anyone else...at least I would #loyaltotheend)
That being said, I have a little conundrum to sort out. Back in Jan '10, a good friend and I both bought kits from MV. We also both bought juices/pre-fillled carts, and accessories. While I leaned towards menthols and real "smoke" flavors, he went caramel/espresso and RY4. Well, I ended up inheriting my buddy's kits, along with a bottle of "original" Dekang RY4 (Tony, feel free to correct me that's what it was back then) that steeped for about 6 months before I got my hands on it. YUMMY!
So, imagine my shock and disbelief when I ordered more MV RY4 in Nov '10, only to find that not only had the flavor changed drastically, it was nearly unvapable. I still have it, steeped about 8 months, still sucks balls. So, I recently grabbed some BWB RY4 (yeah, I got lucky). It's good on the Lux carto (non-XL or dual-coil), but it doesn't have the "wow-factor" that the original Dekang RY4 had. I know, blasphemy for not saying BWB is the best thing I've ever vaped, but we all have our prefs...
So, I've been reading in the e-liquids forum that a high-level employee left Dekang around the same time I bought, taking the RY4 formula with him, and the company had to scramble to put something together, to many boos from the US and probably China as well. They've supposedly been tweaking it since, but I'm so gunshy over buying any more RY4 until I can be assured that I'll get "that old thang back". BWB is the first RY4 I've bought since that last MV bottle.
So, to wrap this up: Has Dekang managed to restore something close to their original Ry4, or has it been lost forever, to be replaced with reasonable facsimiles and artisan interpretations? Anybody know of one that is "CLOSE" to the old formula, and does MV now have something that can rival it?
(We all know we'd rather buy from MV than anyone else...at least I would #loyaltotheend)
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