Basil, used in spaghetti sauce with oregano, or in a caprese salad with tomatoes and mozzarella. It’s a bright, lovely herb
Please do! I’ll definitely try my own cantaloupe boosted mango. My mixing fingers been twitching all day
I just haven’t made the time yet. Looks like fruit for breakfast
I recently tried PUR toasted coconut mango sherbet. I think it has the lightest ever touch of ms-23, which I like because I like my cooling agents low but I was a bit disappointed with the other flavor or lack there of. It could work as a base to build upon. Ever since I tried it I’ve been thinking about a good mango sherbet. So great timing!
When your flavor order is about the same as your car payment. HmmmAnd just how is that a problem?
I made strings from my archery fever so once I'm set up it shouldn't be bad. I want $100 arrows but need to stop having $100 charges for other things like nicotine and flavoring.
I do. I really don't need to be buying flavors I won't use. Basil's off the wishlist. It was a pricy FLV one too so my wishlist down to $30 and change.
I’ve read his blog and all. So I’m familiar with his s&v style... Which is the strange part for me with the chocolate cream pie. I wanted a s&v when I mixed it. I’ve not found a true s&v for me yet... Prompting me to try this one. Because I didn’t like it as a s&v, I assumed after it aged with the high flavoring it’d be a muted undesirable juice. So when I tried it a couple weeks later I was pleasantly surprised! It’s good and while I could vape it now and then, it's just not an ADV for me. It shocked me and taught me though!
I can see this working and being beneficial. Is there a certain recipe(s) you have in mind for this?@NatashaTMT, I find Bill's recipes good candidates for mixing as flavor bases. This preserves the ratios of one flavor to the next, but still allows easy delusion of the recipe, as a whole. It also permits the making of easy 2 or 3mL testers, without the hassle of minuscule measurements.
I think we mostly all have at least one person we can say this about. It’s funny though because the main one who initially taught me a lot about DIY, I don’t like his recipes. I guess thats not what really matters though. You helped me a lot also! You’re very patient as I know you probably repeatedly explain the same content to so many just to help!I will always be grateful to Bill, as it was his recipes, his explanations, his linear methodology, and most of all his patience, that got me started DIYing. Like most things DIY, I have experimented... and kept some ideas, techniques, and ingredients... and discarded the rest that just didn't work for me. Being able to adapt, and personalize my mixing, to my needs/preferences, is what DIY is all about.
Thanks, I appreciate that! I honestly believe DIY has been olfactory therapy for me. You may or may not recall me explaining, only a few months ago, that I can’t smell or taste well due to breaking my nose a couple times. It’s drastically improved and better all the time! So I’m thrilled I’m beginning to be able to taste juices more like everyone else. The fact that my description is spot on to yours confirms this.Also @NatashaTMT, that was a great recipe description!That is how I remember Bill's chocolate recipes working for me too. If you ever feel like revisiting this one; you could lower the Double Chocolate Clear from 4% to 3%, and raise the Milk Chocolate from 5% to 6%. This would provide a 2% swing in favor of the milk chocolate, while maintaining the overall 9% chocolate presence (prior to overall delusion). (3.5% DCC & 5.5%MC; would provide a less aggressive 1% swing.
I might try your suggested chocolate switch up as I’ll be mixing for friends who really like it. Thanks for all your insight
I know everyone taste differently but I’ve honestly never had any type of basil which was minty to me and I thought I’d tried most types.
I don't vape anything without coolant - usually WS-23. I do mix for my son and his friends without coolants and don't notice much difference in sweetness with or without the cooling agent. It might lessen the impression of sweetness a bit since there is that cooling effect right up front. In my Fizzy Pink Lemonade, I like a little extra sweetener in the extra-cold version I make. Trial and error, I suppose, and subjective taste buds.
So glad you mentioned this. I knew something was missing and couldn't put my finger on it. As soon as you mentioned cantaloupe it made perfect sense. The syrupy sweetness of the flesh is an ideal mango boost. This the one ingredient missing from a recipe I've reworked 3 times now.
Basil is a member of the mint family but the basil I grow isn't minty. Sometimes a little Anise flavor comes through but not much at all. It is naturally sweet, bright, delicious. I love basil! There are several types of basil and some do taste mintier than others. I think that basil flavors available for e-juice making lean more to the bright, sweet, clean California basil flavor.
So ever since I got home from work today I can't taste my vape at all. I thought maybe it was just that I've been vaping mostly apple for a week now, so I switched to RY4D and still nothing. It's like I'm vaping water. I get a little bit of smell if I blow out my nose but that's it.
I'd ask if I was using too much ethyl maltol but the RY4D mix doesn't have any in it. I suspect I have the vaper's tongue.
This is going to make it hard to test DIY mixes if my taste doesn't come back soon.
I'd ask if I was using too much ethyl maltol but the RY4D mix doesn't have any in it. I suspect I have the vaper's tongue.
This is going to make it hard to test DIY mixes if my taste doesn't come back soon.
I’m thinking perhaps basils mint could be harder to pick up on in savoury recipes. Either that or I just couldn’t taste it with my olfactory issues. Now I know. Thanks!
I’ve heard minty or menthol vapes can help. I had it for about a day once. I switched over to unflavored juice. Taste started coming back midway through the next day. I tried too many strongly flavored mixes over a few days. I felt like that caused mine.
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