Good for you. You're on the right track. Note that E-Cig lists four fragrances among the ingredients for its
e-liquid. Obviously, the amounts of each are miniscule, since these are oils. Too miniscule to satisfy from a taste standpoint. So I went looking for my own
tobacco absolute. What I found was "Dad's Pipe," a fragrance oil used in candlemaking. The cheapest bottle was $4 -- but $8 to ship. That stopped me cold. Too expensive.
Then I thought of the product called Liquid Smoke. I read how they make it: Sawdust from select trees is heated until it smolders (never burns) and releases smoke, which is captured in tubing that passes through very cold containers. At the end of the tubing, condensed water drips out, containing "Liquid Smoke." I tried it yesterday. Bought tubing, put it in ice, and blew pipe smoke through it.
Nada. Nothing but smoke came out. I had 8 feet of tubing. Must have needed more, or a colder temperature.
Then I bubbled smoke through water, ala hookah. That water stunk like an ashtray that got rained on. That's not the fragrance I'm after! I dumped it down the sink.
I want taste and aftertaste with e-smoking. So far, the tastes I've bought are wimpy. Aroma and taste are so closely tied that if we get the smell right, we'll get the taste. The experiments continue: I "cooked" 10 smoked Kahlua cigar butts yesterday. I got black liquid with no particulates, but not the taste of smoking that excellent cigar.
