MrM,
I don't dispute anything you wrote in your post about Boba's. My personal experience
vaping BB sporadically at every stage from fresh to 18 months old is that I've never been able to taste any tobacco in it. To my palate, BB is a TINO.
I too regard BB as very simple, probably just a couple of ingredients---two, maybe three tops. I just don't know what they are.
AnthonyB,
Same disclaimer---I don't dispute what you wrote about Boba's, and offer reaction only as anecdotal reporting rather than challenge. I've never picked up any banana flavor from BB. Might be there---Lord knows Boba's is famous for being a mystery flavor---but my brain balks at identifying any flavor in BB as banana. Raisin? Yes. Graham cracker? Yeah. Cola? Perhaps. Banana? Uh, no. Doesn't mean that you're wrong, just that my mileage varies.
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In other reporting, after months of
vaping (sporadically) many of the MyVapeJuice natural tobacco extracts in DIY, something snapped in me last night. I experienced a welling-up of disappointment and even aggravation with the murkiness, lack of crispness, one-dimensionality, and general sameness of MVJ NETs. Now, I like Diane a lot, especially since she's the only vendor I know selling NETs in extract form, but I fear that the crystal-clarity and wonderful complexity of Ahlusion tobaccos (to use the most obvious comparison) have ruined me.
In a classic purge, I retired most of my
tanks/clearos that were loaded with MVJ NET DIY juices. Savage Cocoa and Country Squire survived my wrath, but My Hero and Wicked Wench in various hybrids went right down the drain. I still have more of each extract, though, so my hissy fit wasn't terminal, merely radical.
In the early days of this thread, any NET got a pass from me simply because it was an NET. Not any more. Now that I've produced my own home-brewed NET, I guess I expect (require?) that retail NETs be clearly superior to my amateur efforts. Ahlusion, MOV, and GeJ all succeed in this. Not that I
like every NET by those vendors, but the overall quality of their tobaccos shines through quite obviously, and in a way that impresses me, like them or not. MVJ and QnJ, however, both fail my new litmus test: They are no better than my own home-brewed NET, and some of theirs aren't even as good as mine.
That's subjective, of course, and not meant to imply that others don't or shouldn't love MVJ and QnJ NETs, but---having publicly praised both vendors' natural tobaccos initially, and even more recently having continued to give them the benefit of the doubt---I'm afraid that many of their NET juices must be removed from my stable of daily vapes, at least for awhile. I'm sure I'll revisit them later, so perhaps I'll recant. Maybe my palate just went wacky (it does that...). For now, however, I'm simply too spoiled by superb retail NETs to vape anything that strikes me as less.
