Lets talk about Blondes, specifically The Blond from Want2Vape.
I first heard about, and read reviews of this liquid 2 years ago. It was Want2Vape's signature NET with the name 'Blondie' and was a real hit amongst hardcore purist vapors looking for an authentic tobacco experience. Since then the development and sale of NETS have proliferated and now there is a whole market for them and a dedicated thread where 100s of NET juices are being vaped and reviewed.
I wasn't able to order Want2Vape liquids back when I first heard about Want2Vape because they didn't deliver globally. That was until Vulcan Vape started and became Want2Vape's international distributor. Even then, The Blond wasn't on the list of liquids for sale so i made a request to Vulcan Vape to make a special order of The Blond for me from Want2Vape and they now have it available on the site.
Finally today I got The Blond in my vapemail along with Red Pirate and other non-Net offerings such as Ry4, Rock Star and Rygar Mild. Even before I tried The Blond I knew I would like it. There is sometimes a liquid put on the market that just by the reviews and the descriptions of the flavour profile, you can have some kind of certainty you will like or love it. This was one juice I had no doubt about and to be anything but in love with it would be disappointing.
I wasn't disappointed. It was love at first vape with this juice. My first taste of Blond was in a Phoenix with a Mesh Wick. I have not been able to put it aside today.
I am not sure that this is going to be a review with a proper overview of the flavour profile and dimensions with categories and a score. This is more a description, a running commentary on my initial impressions today.
From the first vape I found The Blond immensely satisfying. Like all the Want2Vape NETs it was surprisingly lacking sweetness, something most vapers don't expect. It has an underlying creaminess or lightness about it which perhaps personifies the juice with its namesake. It is the opposite of a dark, murky oily Maduro type of cigar, rather, it is light, mild, crisp, dry and complex and more like an aromatic light cigarette or a pleasant and fragrant pipe. It's not a dark tobacco and lacks the grassy notes of Lousville. Think Lousville with the grassy notes replaced with some subtle flowery undertones and you get an idea of The Blond. I don't know if they were infused into the juice or they are a natural flavour occurring out of the extracted tobacco but they taste like an integrated and balanced part of the whole, rather than an added flavour. The flowery undertones are mild and pleasant and add some depth and dimension to this juice. It has a cool, crisp flavour.
I can imagine if The Blond was vaped in an inferior device it might come off tasting bland, lacking in flavour and dropping all of those subtle nuances which are necessary to give it it's complexity and satisfaction. Used in the right kind of device designed to give maximum flavour, those It seems to develop some woody notes when vaped with more heat. Unlike other juices in the Want2Vape line it seems to be more resilient to heat.
It is hard to tell if it is a gunker because I am vaping it in an SS mesh wick with kanthal wire but I don't think it would gunk up atty's like some of the richer, darker juices in the Want2Vape line.
I am going to leave the descriptions at that and say that this is one of my favourite all time juices. The Blond is a dead set classic in the NET world and while many of the early eras popular NETs lost ground to some of the newer, stylish and bold NETS on the market, it continues to hold its head high as a quintessential NET vaping experience. I can't think of a juice on the market that resembles The Blond except for Lousville which still is quite different due to the grassy notes, but has a similar sort of clean, crisp, light tobacco flavour to it.
Unlike some other Want2Vape juices, The Blond could easily be an all day vape. It is also has the closest resemblance to a cigarette to anything I've vaped before.
If creating NETs is an art form, then the Blond is a masterpiece.
Now let's talk about Want2Vape Rockstar. Tastes like Robitussin but I used to find guilty pleasure in cough medicine so it's a win.
