Hi all,
It’s been so long since I’ve contributed to this forum. I have been busy with study, work and an active social life. Only the study has really served to prevent me from the quiet relaxing indulgences during pockets of spare time. I have finally finished this gruelling year of study as of yesterday and it’s a damn good feeling.
While I haven’t had much time to knock heads with vaping colleagues it hasn’t stopped me from trying new liquids and vaping devices. I have recently purchased a Rocket atomizer and Immortaliser from Fast Tech and both are providing new sensations in vaping. I had considered going for the original Kayfun Lite or the Russian 91% but I had come to the realization that over the last couple of years I was breaching one of the two major reasons I quit smoking and that was to save money. The other reason was to get my health back. Smoking no longer had a place in my life with the gym workouts, new outlook and social life. It seems every few months there is a new ‘game changer’ and new innovation in vaping. The vaping budget can quickly escalate to a habit that is more expensive than smoking cigarettes (and that’s saying something when a pack of 25 cigarettes costs $22 nowadays in Australia).
The rocket apparently (and annoyingly based on one Youtube review ) has just as good flavour and vapor as the Kayfun Lite and Russian. It’s cheaper and has noticeably cheaper parts but in functionality and performance it is apparently the same.
I have also purchased an Aspire BDC and a Protank Mini 2. These two clearomizers are upping the ante on clearomiser and glassomiser tanks and I would say the flavour that these devices produce is bridging the gap on repairable atomizers. The Aspire is a shockingly simple yet effective dual coil bottom coil and the flavour and vapor is outstanding. At $8.95 for the 3.5 ml tank one can’t go wrong.
I’ve been trying new liquids which have mostly been coming from Naturally-Extracted-Tobacco.com. Clay is on a mission to produce some fine liquids and I am still buying up everything he releases. The NS Dark seems to be similar to Big Spirit only with a flavour on the darker end of the spectrum as its namesake. The single varietals are outstanding. The smoked latakia is surely up there with the likes of Devil Dog and Apache. The flue cured burley is also amazing. The perique is my favourite out of the 3 or 4 naturally extracted periques out there. I find the GEJ perique too pungent in flavour which is probably a credit to the mastery of the extraction process of the vendor. The NET.com perique is easy to like and when mixed with the single varietal flue cured Virginia (VA-PER) turns into something magical.
In other news, I FINALLY got the mule order Chimps had organised for me. He put in a significant order for me from Ahlusion some 4 months ago and it mysteriously never arrived nor was returned. My Sweet Georgia Peach, Devil Dog, Sahara and Dulce Cubanito were missing in action and I resigned myself to perhaps never being able to try them. But after 4 months the package was returned to Chimps with no explanation given by the post office. Chimps re-posted it, this time with tracking and they arrived. Suffice it to say, it was worth the 4 months wait. The liquids are amazing. The SGP is everything everybody has been saying about it. It is almost like Devil Dog with a citrus twist.
I've tried Hangsens RY6 which is apparently a natural extraction or a composition of NET with synthetic tobacco flavour and it's not bad for Hangsen but difficult to have with the kinds of juices we have been spoiled with.
I have also tried Pluid. I won't even go there as this post has gone long, except to say it probably has the greatest flavor saturation of any liquid I've ever tried. It lingers on the palate long after the last vape and it feels wet on the inhale. Whether I like the aniseed flavour in the complex flavour profile is something I haven't made my mind up though.
One thing I would like to say about Heather’s Heavenly Vapes is that they disappointingly have started losing flavour after only 6 months. They didn’t have a great deal of flavour to begin with but what there was, was divine, like a flavour from some other ethereal world but over time the flavour has tapered off. I just wish I knew that would happen because I would have vaped them up sooner.
This has been one whopper of a post so thank you to anyone who read through it. I look forward to tracing back now to where I left off months ago and catching up with all the developments, opinions, new NET vendors, weekly dust ups and most of all how tastes and preferences are evolving amidst the super fast development of the industry with new atomizers, clearos, RBAS and NET vendors.
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