The ranking of different NET vendors and juices in this group is much more consensus of opinions than anything else. Most here have little to no experience with smoking pipe and cigar tobacco on a regular basis. The opinions on the quality and success of a NET expressed by the few connoisseurs have been in line with those who weren't as experienced though.
Another grouping of people separate from this group may very well conclude a totally different ranking. Since we're talking a consensus of opinion though, neither list could be called right or wrong in an absolute way. The list here does have legitimacy if you consider that many have participated, many participates have made NETs a big part of their hobby and have sampled and discussed most available offerings, and has been around exactly 3 years to the day! I haven't heard of any other NET group with our credentials.
Good post and I agree. I would like to digress a little here.
No matter what a tobacco tastes like in a pipe or as a cigar, it will never taste the same in vaping form so one could never use the likeness of a flavor in vaping form to its smoking counterpart for appraisal of its accuracy. It quite literally can never be accurate. Combustion, fire, smoke reacts with the tobacco in a way that alters the flavor profile.
Most pipes smell better than they taste. I've smoked good aromatic pipe tobaccos when I was messing around with various forms of smoking and they all taste mostly like ash. They all do. It is only the aroma and room note that really brings out the nuances, at least in my limited experience.
Id like to make a qualification here that I didn't just smoke one bowl, which could then explain why it didn't taste good. I actually smoked a whole tin in a pipe of good quality pipe tobacco that smelled divine. I sampled others as well. In each case the experience of smoking it was that of ashy harshness. I watched YouTube videos to learn how to smoke a pipe correctly so I don't believe human error was a factor, not greatly so anyway.
This was about 6 months ago when I slipped back into smoking. I extracted some of that pipe tobacco as well, but that is a topic for another post.
I think I can see why cigarettes became popular. In what seems very paradoxical, all those chemicals in cigarettes that are harmful make cigarettes taste better and smell worse. Pipes and cigars, that are mostly cased organic tobacco with no chemical additives smell better than they taste.
Vaping a tobacco, I believe, brings out the subtle nuances in flavor of a tobacco more than smoking it does. If there were any comparisons at all to be made it would be between the way a tobacco smells or the room note it leaves and how it tastes in vaping form, and not how it tastes when smoked.
For those who have never smoked a pipe, you are not missing anything.
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I always feared, in the back of my mind, the day may come when some town or city may impose the "no smoking" of analogs, etc. on vapors
Of course! The very antithesis of Socialism! (see what I did there? 
The one that created the Volkswagon, and Zyclon B??
