I'm doing much better, thank you, everyone! I lost 10 pounds in the first week of my illness, so I still look like a sack of skin & bones (my body looks 10 years older now). Still on antibiotics, 4x a day, for another week though, but I'm making progress.
Looked at the Ella's Shortbread recipe to see how much sweetener it called for and apparently there wasn't any listed in the recipe at all.

Perhaps it's the sugar cookie that is making it too sweet for me (at 4%), but I'm not sure. Tried the Bourbon-Brown Sugar Milkshake again and it's good, with a slight kick of bourbon, but I'm not getting enough of something that my palate wants. Vaping sessions are short with this one, so I may tweak it along the way. My taste buds are likely still wonky, as I couldn't bear to vape anything while I was sick, so I won't be getting 'all creative' anytime soon. LOL!
Lately, I find I'm craving tobacco for some reason (haven't vaped any in a long time), so I may just sift through my retail juice stash for something to tide me over. In the meantime, these are the tobaccos that I have on hand:
Chef's RY-.....
Chef's Vapefella (it's a custard with hint of tobacco, so I included it)
DIYFS Holy Grail RY4
FA RY4 Nutzilla
FA RY4 Tobacco
HA Deluxe Tobacco
HS Desert Ship
HS RY1
HS RY3
HS RY4
HS Tobacco
INW AM4A
INW Gold Ducat
INW Vanilla Pipe Tobacco
JF RY4 Double
OSDIY Tobacco Absolute (powder form, I haven't mixed w/ PG yet

)
PUR Sweet Tobacco
PUR Tobacco Original
TPA DK Tobacco Base
TPA RY4 Double
Holy cow, I had no idea I had amassed so many tobaccos and I'm sure I'm missing some staples (haven't SFTed any of them either

)! No wonder I haven't a clue where to start.

My favorite retail tobacco (if you can call it a tobacco) was Nicoticket's Absolute Creme Brulee, because I adore that caramel note, although it does border on being almost too sweet (others say it smells like maple syrup, but it doesn't taste like maple to me). So, do I have the makings for a medium tobacco with a sweet note? Also, it's been many years since I've had a menthol tobacco (smoked Marlboro Lights Menthol for many years), so maybe I'm craving something like that, I don't know... Perhaps, I suffered a bit of brain damage due to my high fever, who knows.