I ordered 6 samplers from Ms T's awhile back... here's my unexpurgated opinion of my first order from the aforementioned supplier...
The Order-I ordered on Feb 26th... received an e-mail update to "processing" on the 28th... received an e-mail update to "shipping" on March 4... and the package came March 6th...
Ms T's site is easy to deal with, and I felt the order came in a fair amount of time... not to mention, the updates every few days... so no problems here. High marks for Ms T's biz practices...
The Packaging-I was mildly amused and surprised when I first opened the package and realized she uses real popcorn as packing! And normally... I'd give excellent marks on this... but I have 3 words for Ms T.... MOVIE THEATER BUTTER!
The bottles are fairly standard... the labels are quaint and colorful, and include an expiration date... a definite bonus... I'd encourage EVERY supplier to date their wares in some way... however, I also encourage EVERY supplier to use mg #'s on their bottles... this Hi-Med-Lo crap is annoying! Just put a # and LET ME decide how Hi or Lo that is... also, I REALLY like to know how much or how little VG is mixed in... I guess Tasty Vapor has me spoiled in that regard...
The Flaves-all of my 6 were ordered at Medium strength... that's 24 mg in Ms T's world... it's Hi by my reckoning... of all the places I've ordered from, I'd say that's Hi for them, as well... my point is simply this... I'd rank my nic levels from Lo-Hi based on flaves that don't need to be cut with doublers... and from what I've gathered on ECF, 36 mg is often considered unsafe to vape without cutting with doublers... anything over what's considered safe to use out-of-the-bottle should be separated from them...
Irish Cream Coffee w/Whipped Cream-This was by far the best juice in the lot... it's very balanced and vapes wonderfully by itself... it also plays well with others... I yummed it up with a couple drops of TV Cafe Machiatto... and I finally found a benefit to having a diabetic cat... I syringed several units of Black Velvet Whiskey into the carto... MMMMMMM!
Cinnamon Danish Banana Coffee-Put this one in the WTF-was-I-Thinking? category... too many flaves duelling each other like Musketeers on crack! Sure, the quality of the ingredients were there, but the Cinnamon and Coffee seemed to be wounded in action here... which is hard to do with such strong flaves... I'd recommend kicking these two up a notch...
Cake Icing-I bought this one as a mixer ingredient more than anything else, and it does perform well... sweet, but not that cloying sweetness I'll touch on again later... I recommend adding this to coffee flaves...
Lemonade-Decent flavor, but very weak with virtually NO throat hit... either this stuff needs to be "bulked up" or it needs to be renamed... Lemon Dental Floss anyone?
Maraschino-I'm on a quest to find good cherry <insert tasteless joke here>... however, I'm once again disappointed... is Maraschino italian for "citric acid and pesticide"??? Okay, maybe it wasn't pesticide... it actually tasted more like the chemical they added to the analog papers before I quit...
Caskets-n-Cream-I stole this for name Ms T's French Vanilla from critterbug... she coined it after hearing my description of a particularly horrible flavor ingredient I've run into before... this flavor has an overly-rich, dairy flavor I can only describe as "Death and Gardenia's"... or, more accurately, "Funeral Parlor and Stale Lavendar"... the taste hits me right in the back-bottom of the throat and makes me want to gag...
Overall, I have to give above average marks to Ms T's... service was great... ingredients were of a high quality (not many suppliers have juice good enough to mix with Tasty Vapor's)... but 2 of the 6 are unvapable for me... the Maraschino being the worst due to the pesticide taste... the Caskets-n-Cream being 2nd worst for the taste itself... not the quality of the ingredients...
And I can only recommend the Irish Cream Coffee... high compliment from a guy whose cocktail of choice is Irish Cream Coffee... I'll continue to order from Ms T's because I love trying new flaves... but the next order, I'll know what to get a larger bottle of...
-Karl the heretiK
The Order-I ordered on Feb 26th... received an e-mail update to "processing" on the 28th... received an e-mail update to "shipping" on March 4... and the package came March 6th...
Ms T's site is easy to deal with, and I felt the order came in a fair amount of time... not to mention, the updates every few days... so no problems here. High marks for Ms T's biz practices...
The Packaging-I was mildly amused and surprised when I first opened the package and realized she uses real popcorn as packing! And normally... I'd give excellent marks on this... but I have 3 words for Ms T.... MOVIE THEATER BUTTER!
The bottles are fairly standard... the labels are quaint and colorful, and include an expiration date... a definite bonus... I'd encourage EVERY supplier to date their wares in some way... however, I also encourage EVERY supplier to use mg #'s on their bottles... this Hi-Med-Lo crap is annoying! Just put a # and LET ME decide how Hi or Lo that is... also, I REALLY like to know how much or how little VG is mixed in... I guess Tasty Vapor has me spoiled in that regard...
The Flaves-all of my 6 were ordered at Medium strength... that's 24 mg in Ms T's world... it's Hi by my reckoning... of all the places I've ordered from, I'd say that's Hi for them, as well... my point is simply this... I'd rank my nic levels from Lo-Hi based on flaves that don't need to be cut with doublers... and from what I've gathered on ECF, 36 mg is often considered unsafe to vape without cutting with doublers... anything over what's considered safe to use out-of-the-bottle should be separated from them...
Irish Cream Coffee w/Whipped Cream-This was by far the best juice in the lot... it's very balanced and vapes wonderfully by itself... it also plays well with others... I yummed it up with a couple drops of TV Cafe Machiatto... and I finally found a benefit to having a diabetic cat... I syringed several units of Black Velvet Whiskey into the carto... MMMMMMM!
Cinnamon Danish Banana Coffee-Put this one in the WTF-was-I-Thinking? category... too many flaves duelling each other like Musketeers on crack! Sure, the quality of the ingredients were there, but the Cinnamon and Coffee seemed to be wounded in action here... which is hard to do with such strong flaves... I'd recommend kicking these two up a notch...
Cake Icing-I bought this one as a mixer ingredient more than anything else, and it does perform well... sweet, but not that cloying sweetness I'll touch on again later... I recommend adding this to coffee flaves...
Lemonade-Decent flavor, but very weak with virtually NO throat hit... either this stuff needs to be "bulked up" or it needs to be renamed... Lemon Dental Floss anyone?
Maraschino-I'm on a quest to find good cherry <insert tasteless joke here>... however, I'm once again disappointed... is Maraschino italian for "citric acid and pesticide"??? Okay, maybe it wasn't pesticide... it actually tasted more like the chemical they added to the analog papers before I quit...
Caskets-n-Cream-I stole this for name Ms T's French Vanilla from critterbug... she coined it after hearing my description of a particularly horrible flavor ingredient I've run into before... this flavor has an overly-rich, dairy flavor I can only describe as "Death and Gardenia's"... or, more accurately, "Funeral Parlor and Stale Lavendar"... the taste hits me right in the back-bottom of the throat and makes me want to gag...
Overall, I have to give above average marks to Ms T's... service was great... ingredients were of a high quality (not many suppliers have juice good enough to mix with Tasty Vapor's)... but 2 of the 6 are unvapable for me... the Maraschino being the worst due to the pesticide taste... the Caskets-n-Cream being 2nd worst for the taste itself... not the quality of the ingredients...
And I can only recommend the Irish Cream Coffee... high compliment from a guy whose cocktail of choice is Irish Cream Coffee... I'll continue to order from Ms T's because I love trying new flaves... but the next order, I'll know what to get a larger bottle of...
-Karl the heretiK
