Hi people!
Just thought I would pop in and say hello. It's been a while. I hope you've all been well.
I spent a lot of time on ECF last year when I was catching trains every day but with lockdowns later last year and driving to work more recently I haven't found that time bubble to spend time on forums.
ECF is a place of nostalgia. I was looking back on posts from the halcyon early years of
vaping. Those feelings of novelty and the sheer enthusiasm for vaping have faded. What an amazing time it was in the first few years of vaping, discovering new juices, mods, upgrades in technology.
I have done some experimenting with DIY all throughout and to be honest, I've had many more failures than successes. This is probably because I ambitiously have tried to clone old loved juices and because my taste buds have changed drastically since I started vaping.
I tried to make reimagined versions of my old loved juices Legend and Pirate's Booty by HHV as they were in 2013 but I failed (still trying). Too tobaccoey and not sweet, complex and intoxicating like I remember them.
I tried to make nic salt juices that taste like disposables but failed. Nowhere near the intensity of flavour. How disposables like Igets and Gunnpod's can carry so much intense flavour in a little device mystifies me.
I mixed some solo concentrates that are supposedly good as standalone's, but didn't love them.
I made a Castle Long and Lucena clone by Five Pawns by following a recipe and they tasted bad. Too strong. Nothing how I remember them.
I made some tobacco recipes with Inawera and FLV concentrates and didn't like them. My palate just can't stomach tobacco vapes anymore at least not synthetic versions.
About the only recipes I've made that really tasted good were a clone of banana bondage by Adore E-liquids and some banana pudding recipes and a clone of my all time favourite juice Milk of the Poppy by Vapetasia. I also managed to make an almost perfect clone of a juice I loved in 2010 called Wyatt Earp Signature by Freedom Smoke USA. That turned out bonza. It brought me right back to my early vaping years.