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Well im vaping Smooth Criminal for the first time, and it reminds me a lot of HHV Dragons Fire.

tobacco, pina colada (pineapple & coconut), vanilla, and a slight cinnamon finish...


Fresh SC to me tastes like a sugary butter and cream stew with nutmeg and allspice. Steeped two months it tastes like a very husky dry tobacco with golden caramel undercurrents. Pretty sure yours isn't steeped. I guess I'm in the minority in never having gotten anything resembling cinnamon from it at any age.
 

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I have to say I am a little disappointed in the Maple Burley. PSYCHE. It is AMAZING. How can you be disappointed in this stuff. It is unreal. However, I really was hoping for an ever so slightly sweet ADV and this may not be it. This is heavy handed NET lung shredding bliss. Fantastic on its own, but not sure I can burn it all day. Also, I am getting very little maple from it. Now, I WANT the tobacco to be the star, but to me the maple is more of a cameo than a costar. Anyone else have any opinions on the Ahlusion Maple Burley?

I now have to wonder how the Backwoods Maple Tobacco compares...
 
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I have to say I am a little disappointed in the Maple Burley. PSYCHE. It is AMAZING. How can you be disappointed in this stuff. It is unreal. However, I really was hoping for an ever so slightly sweet ADV and this may not be it. This is heavy handed NET lung shredding bliss. Fantastic on its own, but not sure I can burn it all day. Also, I am getting very little maple from it. Now, I WANT the tobacco to be the star, but to me the maple is more of a cameo than a costar. Anyone else have any opinions on the Ahlusion Maple Burley?

I now have to wonder how the Backwoods Maple Tobacco compares...

I know that A+ says no steeping required with their aros. And for the most part I agree with that. However, they do change slightly with some age. Vurley is a prime example. With that said, give the MB a few days to a week. It might change in your favor.
 

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Fresh SC to me tastes like a sugary butter and cream stew with nutmeg and allspice. Steeped two months it tastes like a very husky dry tobacco with golden caramel undercurrents. Pretty sure yours isn't steeped.

Yes my SC is fresh. Im a firm believer in vaping all my juices fresh to see how the flavors change over time as they steep. I cant see how some people can buy a new juice, and let it steep for weeks/months before ever even trying it? I cant do it... lol
 
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Fresh SC to me tastes like a sugary butter and cream stew with nutmeg and allspice. Steeped two months it tastes like a very husky dry tobacco with golden caramel undercurrents. Pretty sure yours isn't steeped. I guess I'm in the minority in never having gotten anything resembling cinnamon from it at any age.

I never got cinnamon either, just the tobacco (I like your husky dry description) with a nondescript sweetness. I only briefly tasted Smooth Criminal fresh, was aged over a month before I added it to the rotation. I need to vape it more fresh next time to compare all the wild description I've heard. Sugary butter and cream stew with nutmeg and allspice probably takes the prize lol.

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Anyone else have any opinions on the Ahlusion Maple Burley?

I now have to wonder how the Backwoods Maple Tobacco compares...

I dripped some Maple Burley yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm a huge fan of the aromatic line and Ahlusion's maple flavor. I need to spend more time with it, but I think it's middle-of-the-ground for me as far as Aromatics go. I love Blue Grass Burley, Vurley, ahd Honey Cured. I'm enjoying Cocoa Blend and Sweet Georgia Peach too (need to spend more time with those too). Of course compared to the vast majority of tobacco e-liquids available, Maple Burley kicks all kinds of ..... That's a (wonderful) problem I have with several Ahlusion juices -- they're better than most of the things I've tried, but the company makes so many excellent products (tobacco and non-tobacco) that the ones that very, very good are almost disappointing because Wlad makes so many stellar juices.

Edit: As for BWB's Maple Tobacco, I'm sure it's a good product, but I'm also sure that I wouldn't like it as much as Maple Burley.
 

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I cant see how some people can buy a new juice, and let it steep for weeks/months before ever even trying it? I cant do it... lol

Lol, I do it by ordering way too many juices at a time while I already have a bunch of juices I'm still trying to figure out in my rotation. I often don't get to a new juice for several weeks after receiving it.

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Lol, I do it by ordering way too many juices at a time while I already have a bunch of juices I'm still trying to figure out in my rotation. I often don't get to a new juice for several weeks after receiving it.

Same deal here. I'll drip a bit to see how it develops, but for the most part I have enough juice that a one-month steep happens before I vape a juice in earnest. The problem is when I have something I really, really like on hand. I'm behind in my juice rotation because of various Ahlusion, Goodejuice, and Five Pawns products. Ah, first-world problems.
 

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Tried MOV's Hey Jack, a maple Cavendish, and it's going back in the steep box. It's a few weeks old, but in a glass bottle that I opened and shaked only a couple times. Gonna open every other day or so for a few minuted and shake well for a couple more weeks. It's just too sweet now, and that's after vaping Bounty Hunter for a few hours. Luckily, age often brings out the bacco and settles down the sweetness in NETs, fingers crossed that'll happen here. The flavor is quite tasty at least.

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Tried MOV's Hey Jack, a maple Cavendish, and it's going back in the steep box. It's a few weeks old, but in a glass bottle that I opened and shaked only a couple times. Gonna open every other day or so for a few minuted and shake well for a couple more weeks. It's just too sweet now, and that's after vaping Bounty Hunter for a few hours. Luckily, age often brings out the bacco and settles down the sweetness in NETs, fingers crossed that'll happen here. The flavor is quite tasty at least.

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I have to say I am a little disappointed in the Maple Burley. PSYCHE. It is AMAZING. How can you be disappointed in this stuff. It is unreal. However, I really was hoping for an ever so slightly sweet ADV and this may not be it. This is heavy handed NET lung shredding bliss. Fantastic on its own, but not sure I can burn it all day. Also, I am getting very little maple from it. Now, I WANT the tobacco to be the star, but to me the maple is more of a cameo than a costar. Anyone else have any opinions on the Ahlusion Maple Burley?

I now have to wonder how the Backwoods Maple Tobacco compares...

The juices I take to work -- usually in a bottom feeder -- are usually Smooth Criminal and Maple House Blend. That's your utilitarian A+ maple juice. It is one of my very favorite Ahlusion vapes, but is less demanding of my attention than anything aromatic. Now, as for Maple Burley, I think if anything the maple recedes back into the mix as it ages; it even develops a little whiskeyish, fermented character. I love it new and old. The maple flavor is authentic. It's a genuine maple sugar -- no high-fructose corn stuff included. So, not like a mass-produced maple syrup flavor at all, but the most delicate of true natural maples. For me, only Blue Grass Burley and Smokin Cherries rank higher among the aros. I truly love the others too, but those three are the ones that, should they become unavailable to me, would induce helpless wailing and bitter tears.
 

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I never got cinnamon either, just the tobacco (I like your husky dry description) with a nondescript sweetness. I only briefly tasted Smooth Criminal fresh, was aged over a month before I added it to the rotation. I need to vape it more fresh next time to compare all the wild description I've heard. Sugary butter and cream stew with nutmeg and allspice probably takes the prize lol.

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Well, that description may contain some hyperbole. I was just trying to make the very real point that SC fresh and steeped are WAY different. It really is very sweet and syrupy when new, and steeping changes and diminishes the sweetness -- along with really bringing the tobacco to the fore. I'm not a throat-hit guy really (flavor is way more important to me), but if I was I'd never run out of eight-week-old SC, because the feeling of that dry tobacco on exhale is one of my greatest vaping pleasures. Wait a minute, I DON'T ever run out of eight-week-old SC!
 

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Yes my SC is fresh. Im a firm believer in vaping all my juices fresh to see how the flavors change over time as they steep. I cant see how some people can buy a new juice, and let it steep for weeks/months before ever even trying it? I cant do it... lol

I didn't say you shouldn't try everything at every stage, just that Smooth Criminal when young is far different from the older version. Like tadpoles and adult frogs, or caterpillars and moths maybe. But better tasting.

I drip new liquids too; sometimes they're great new! And some are good both ways (Sasparilla, Ice Kiss). Others seem like they're going to be equally good, but what the juice turns into is far beyond what you imagined from the good youthful version (hellooo, Sahara).
 
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