Question about flavors

[Sunshyn]

Ok, this is probably a very silly question, but I'm finding the flavor thing to be somewhat unclear. It's probably just obvious to everyone else so isn't mentioned outright.
If you got apple flavor liquid, does it taste like apples or like the apple flavored tobacco. like you can purchase for pipes? Is smoking vanilla flavor closer to a vanilla candy-type treat or is that flavor added to a tobacco one?

Objectively, it seems there would be no need for tobacco flavoring to be included, but since most people who use these are obviously ex-smokers, it could just be understood that they will still taste like a cigarette, although a flavored one. If it didn't, though, I could envision a new generation of people who never smoked purchasing non-nicotine ones as an alternative to gum or candy, especially since it isn't fattening.

 

[Cage]

It's not obvious. Flavors are discussed here all the time.
Here's what I think... nothing tastes like anything, real that is.
Apple is somebody's idea of apple flavor. Who's apple? What kind?
Granny Smith? Red Delicious? Macintosh?
It's all just flavored liquid, so try different flavors until you find out what YOU like.
Some people rave about flavors that I think are just putrid.
Some I like and others I love. Everybody's different.
Get some sample packs and begin your journey.

And hey... If you don't like the Apple, buy a PC!!!

 

[Heed]

The flavours that don't try to emulate tobacco don't have any "base" tobacco flavour on which an "extra" flavour is added.

So, strawberry, for example, will taste of strawberry and not of tobacco + strawberry.

Personally, I haven't gone for anything tobacco flavoured since I finished my original carts I got with my starter kit. The other flavours are really nice in comparison to tobacco and I don't miss the actual tobacco flavour. I think seperating the tobacco flavour from the nicotine hit could be an important part in breaking the link between tobacco and nicotine -- which, in turn, could be helpful in keeping off cigarettes.

Some flavours taste more like you would expect given the name and some less. Also, the strength of flavour can vary, but I think, more often than not, that the strength would be weaker than what a newbie might expect (i.e not be as strong as sucking on a candy of the same flavour).

 

[Tristalec]

I would compare it to smoking flavored tobacco out of a hookah. I don't think that hookah smoke tastes at all like cigarettes, sometimes when I'm smoking hookah I'll smoke a cigarette, for the cigarette taste I guess, I don't really know why. But if you have ever smoked flavored tobacco out of a hookah then I think that is a good example of how flavored cartridges or juice tastes in an e-cigarette.