New vapor needs advice.

[Sonso]

Hi,
I'm like most new users and have ordered way to many samples of juice. Some of them are pretty rough! lol Live and learn. I was wondering with some diy goodies if there's a way to add some sweetness or flavors that would make them more tasty? I like the vanilla and caramel type juices the most. I also tend to enjoy the very sweet ones. Are they just a lost cause or can I change them? Thanks for any help.

 

[Jimi D.]

ethyl maltol or sucralose will do the trick.

 

[Riverboat]

I use 100% VG...smooth... Unflavored

 

[Moonstruck]

I only recently started doing DIY juices. But I've been vaping for 3 years, and I have very rarely thrown out any juice -- just too expensive to do that. So I'd mix them together; at times I even added some vanilla extract right out of my kitchen to a few of them to make them taste better. A few times I added a few drops of my Canadian whiskey; wow that really helped, too. You can add lots of different flavors like caramel, vanilla, hazelnut, to name a few. To smooth out harshness I like adding cream (bavarian cream was my favorite for this) and/or sweetener.

A lot of the pre-made, store-bought fruit flavors were always way to perfumey/soapy for my tastes, so I'd add some of my watermelon or pineapple to them and that helped a lot.

The only ones I ever bought that I just couldn't fix were raspberry and blackberry. No matter what I did, they were just too perfumey for me. They went in the trash.

 

[Sonso]

I will sure give some of these ideas a go! I saw someplace that you could use EZ-Sweetz. It is very concentrated. I've used it in cooking. Is there any harm in trying this? One drop equals 1 teaspoon of sugar. I have some Disaronno in there. Wonder how that would do? Mainly I don't want to poison myself by doing something completely dumb! I'm using mostly 18 for my nicotine strength. If I get to carried away it will start to delete the strength I'm sure but wouldn't mind it going down to anything 12 and above.

 

[Moonstruck]

That should be ok - lots of folks here add liquid Sucralose, so I don't see much difference.

 

[JC Okie]

I've used liquid Stevia. With sweeteners, less is more. They're usually pretty concentrated, so do it a drop or two at a time. Also, you can buy sweeteners at some of the DIY flavoring sites. I think USA Made Vapor Renu : Electronic Cigarettes Refill Cartridges : Candy Flavorings : E Cig Liquid Nicotine : Cartomizer Refills : Menthol E-Liquid : Flavoring Oils : E Cigarette Refills has some. Others have it, too. Also, ethyl malto is sometimes sold as Cotton Candy, so you can get a Cotton Candy e-liquid in the nic level of your choice (18mg/ml) and mix it with anything. That way you won't be diluting the nic so much.

 

[Sonso]

I sure will be getting some goodies to doctor up my not so good juices. I don't have much hope for one of them but the others seem like a sweet should the trick. When my poor credit card quits melting (I have it soaking in ice water) I will try few simple things with DIY juice. One step at a time, right? Thanks everyone.

 

[Bosco]

I usually add some mint or menthol ejuice to juices i don't like or am bored with. I happen to have mint and menthol ejuices laying around that I need to use up - but flavorings could be used as well. Mint and/or Menthol is nice with fruit/berry flavors, chocolate/candy flavors, tobacco flavors of course - almost anything.

You mentioned you like vanilla flavors - the bottle of menthol I'm currently working off is DeKang Menthol - it has a pretty nice vanilla flavor as well as the menthol component. It goes really well with tobacco flavors and is not bad on it's own once in a while.