Colin Powell alert, lol.
Oh, Trabuco Vapors. What can I say about them? I am having major difficulty putting thoughts into words. Or maybe I'm over thinking this.
I have very little experience with pipe tobaccos and vapes. Even more inexperience with cigar vapes and tobaccos. I read with varying levels of understanding posts in this thread and truly appreciate the knowledge and experiences of whatever you vape.
On to Trabuco....given my history of liking NET vapes, but really only having tried a few vendors mentioned in this thread (Ahlusion, Heather's Heavenly Vapes, Goodejuice), coupled with me never really having tried any "straight tobaccos" and only having tried two "pipe and cigar" vapes, I read with great interest y'alls descriptions of them.
With alladat said
, I had no idea what to expect from Trabuco's offerings. Would they make me grow hair on my chest a la Ahlusion's aromatics? Would they have an artificial or poser quality to them? I just didn't know.
In my week with them, they've been neither of the aforementioned. Truthfully, I just find them merely vapeable [sic]. I don't think they're gross or artificial. The base tobacco used seems very familiar to me, but I don't know how. I've never smoked a pipe and never been around pipe smokers, but the taste of, I believe Virginia, is one that I recognize.
I'm only guessing that the Virginia is the identifiable tobacco in these vapes for me only because it's the common tobacco according to all 4 bottles' labels. Please feel free to learn me, lol, if I have this wrong.
I tried them all and found them all to be adequate. I am enjoying Blackstar (Virginia, Burley, Graham Cracker) the most.
Capistrano makes me really notice the rum used to extract the tobacco. The blueberry in it seems to have helped distract this liquid. Or distinguish it from the others if you're a half-full glass type of person, ha.
Silverado I suppose qualifies as my 3rd straight tobacco vape. The other two being Ahlusion's Sahara Blend and Sweet Virginia, though those two are not as straight as straight tobacco vapes can be. Silverado was not as straight as I expected either, due to the rum permeating it. I didn't notice it as much as I did with Capistrano. It's ok.
And finally, Portola. I will preface this by sharing that I really like flavored tobacco vapes. Vanilla tobacco vapes, however, have done nothing for me so far. I wasn't expecting much from Portola and I got what I expected. My sense of smell is whacked, but I was really wanting to experience this room note y'all were posting about. All I can say is that my significant other and one of my dogs strongly opposed whenever I vaped it, lol.
So if I were grading on a 1 to 10 scale, I'd give Trabuco Vapors' line a 6. Muddled, but something in the juices are salvageable. I think if they were more distinguishable amongst themselves and somehow are able to lessen the rum extractions' effect on the flavor, it would be a step in the right direction.
I vaped these all in momma's new toy -- the Magma RDA, dual coiled with a 0.6 ohm total with a variable wattage device, between 11 and 19 watts. I used that trendy rayon wick also, ha. I really like how it holds up to high wattage as far as wicking is concerned.
Brobdingian, you're not the only one who can fill up a page in a thread with one post!
