Vendor: Naturally-Extracted-Tobacco.com
Juice: 3-Crown (Heat Extracted) 70/30 Pg/Vg
3-Crown is considered to be the signature extract at Naturally-Extracted-Tobacco.com and with good reason.
Sample Juice Deliver System: Igo-L 9 wraps 32 gauge kanthal (Micro-coil) 2.4 ohms 4.2 volts.
The site describes 3-Crown as follows:
Our flagship cigar e-liquid, 3-Crown is a full-flavored yet smooth, medium-bodied tobacco vape made from a cigar using an aged Dominican tobacco filler wrapped in an Ecuadorian tobacco leaf.
Clay is well versed at picking the flavour profile and spectrum his cigar and pipe blends fall into and the description is spot on. 3-Crown has now reached its 4th week of steeping. Initially, in what I consider its pre-steeped stage it tasted a little light on the palette, the flavors were diffuse but it promised to mature into a fine vape. I felt that initially the tobacco tasted on the lighter to medium end of the spectrum. As it matures it's getting bolder and gathering depth. The flavour is fuller, medium bodied and it is also carrying some darker, bolder notes with some grassy undertones. It performs like it's namesake. It is more a layered, multi-faceted liquid with some light, medium and darker notes and seems to grace the palette with a broad brush of cigar notes in concert with each other. The inhale is smooth yet rich, medium to dark tobacco. The exhale is oaky, latakia-esque and medium bodied, accurate to the makers description. I'm sensing a whiff of burley, virginia and something darker, maybe fire cured or latakia. There is plenty for the cavendish lovers and vanilla lovers in NET.com juices but this, the signature liquid has neither cavendish tobacco or vanilla or any other corollary flavours going on. It is it's own genre on the site and complements the entire cadre of cigar and pipe blends. This is a no nonsense cigar vape. There is no flavor additives or naturally emanating flavours outside that of rich layers of tobacco.
I have yet to try many of the NET.com liquids in their more mature state but as I first predicted, what I am trying amongst my complete sampler set from the site are now tasting fuller, richer, more complex and more authentically tobacco. 3-Crowns is quickly becoming my favorite amongst favorites right across the board from all vendors. I had some concerns that it might not develop into a full rich tobacco in its infancy but that concern is quickly diminishing now. 3-Crowns is the real deal. A real NET connoisseurs vape.
As a cigar NET lover this liquid satisfies me three ways to Sunday. The exhaled vapor wafts in the room and leaves a genuine aroma of a good rich cigar. In the mouth, it is almost a guilty pleasure and the after taste lingers on well after I've stopped vaping it. This is stogie personified and recreated in a magical form.
Whether this is an all day vape is yet to be explored for me but I have vaped it solid tonight. I have sampled it in a standard 510 German VKS atty and some of the nuances and layers are a little lost. It really performs best in a well built RBA/RDA. It's worth trying in a protank and I think it most likely would be well represented in tanks.
This is a stellar juice. It's taken 4 weeks to get there for me but it is shining brightly right now. Can it continue to steep into something better? It really doesn't need to be any better than it already is but after 4 weeks it has only improved more and more and may still have some way to go.
