Review #2 - HHV, More from AVE, and a Bunch of (mostly bad) Misc. Reviews (many coffees)

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McGarnagle

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Yay, review number 2. There are too many here to count, and many I will not go into since I simply did not like them one bit. I will save them for the end. See my first review for background and testing procedure.

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/fo...rs-ave-ecblend-deejstuff-nicquid-volcano.html

I am going to be a little more brief if I can this time (yeah right)...

alien Visions e-liquid

All copious vapor and mild to moderate throat hit. Note, I do not steep AVE juices as they state they do not need steeping. I will be letting some of them steep and try them again later. Yet for review purposes, there are tested as soon as I receive them. All are 6mg Nicotine (I decided to try lower nic, but I think it's too low and I will be returning to 12mL soon).

Gorilla Juice - Boba's Bounty with a hint of banana. It really is that simple. See my first review on Boba's. If you like Boba's, and you like bananas, this is for you. Highly recommended.

Havana Gold - Obviously this is supposed to a Cuban cigar. Amazingly, what I get is a flat Dr. Pepper with added pepper. I know, sounds weird. Maybe it needs some steeping. It's actually not bad to tell you the truth. Yet it certainly is not a Cuban cigar. I cannot recommend simply because it's not what it says it is. It's not bad, and I would give it a no recommendation if it named something different. Vapable, but certainly no cigar I have ever had.

Strawberry Cheesecake - This is a really nice, sweet strawberry. The strawberry is the predominating flavor here, so it's not really like a cheesecake with strawberries. Yet it is rather tasty, and a really good dessert vape. I recommend.

Heather's Heavenly Vapes

12mg nic. All good throat hit and vapor. Steeped 1 to 2 weeks.

Vanilla Dream - I am going to start out with the big winner here. This is by far the best vanilla vape I have ever tried. It is just a perfect, creamy vanilla. Absolutely fantastic. Highly recommended.

Peanut Butter Cookie - Fairly close, but not quite dead on. There is a sweet peanut butter flavor there, but it's nice quite right. Almost like peanut butter with artificial sweetener. Not bad, but not that good. No recommendation. Feel free to try if you like.

Java Smooth - My never ending search for a good coffee vape continues (see below for the full list). This one suffers from something many of the others. It has a sort of chemical/paper taste too it I can't quite pinpoint what it is, which of course means it's not really anything natural. There is a slight coffee flavor in there, but also has that popcorn flavor coffee vapes seem to suffer from. It's not really enjoyable at all. Cannot recommend.

Legend - aka Gandalf. This is a nice, light tobacco with a hint of floweriness to it. I enjoyed it although flowery tobaccos are not my thing, yet I can see why others really like it. I recommend.

Long list of others not really worth much discussion

Most of these will be coffee vapes. They all either had that paper taste I was talking about, or were very burnt, or tasted like slightly burnt popcorn. I won't go into which is which. They all were not vapable. Mind you, I don't like doing this since I am sure there are some good vendors in here, but these simply are not coffee in any way. All were steeped at least 1 week.

Dark Vapor - Creamy Joe, Chocolate Mocha Shake, Iced Coffee, DVC Coffee Mix 1, Hyper Hillbilly
Mom and Pops Vapor Shop - Keswick Koffee, Bud's Blend (I also tried Pchela's Poison and RY4 - cannot recommend either)
Virgin Vapor - Organic Kona Coffee Milkshake (I will note this smelled and tasted like perfume), Organic Dark Roast Turkish Coffee
eliquidplanet - Cosmic Coffee
Copper Creek - Copper Creek Coffee. I also tried their House Blend. There were a ton of flavors there, but I didn't really care for it. I think this one I will chalk up to personal preference and some others may like, but I didn't spend too much time with it since I didn't care for it.

Now the bad ones are out of the way, one that's ok but not what I would call coffee...

Highbrowvapor - Bavarian Hazelnut Cream and Cappuccino Diablo. These were strange. Both rather sweet, and the Baviarian Hazelnut was pretty much the Cap Diablo with Hazelnut. They too had that sort of papery taste, but the other flavors masked it for the most part. Not really coffee, but it wasn't bad either. One of the few I actually vaped until it was done. I also tried French Pipe. This was spicy as hell. I didn't really enjoy it at all, and didn't go into all of the flavors.

So, with all of that said, I actually have to up an old review. My winner out of all of the coffee vapes is now Christie's Cappuccino from AVE. I did not recommend it before, but hey, when you have a classroom full of D students you have to grade on a curve.

Now, to my boobie prize. As I mentioned, I hate doing this, but I have to mention a vendor that almost made me vomit. That prize goes to (dumdadadum)....

ECBlend - I got a bunch from them. Their dragon stuff was not too bad (I believe I got Dragon's blood and kiss). Yet then I got to smoky caramel tobacco. Let it steep for a while and decided to give it a shot. Took a smell like I always do, and it was foul. It was like a dumpster with water in it that has been fermenting for a while. Anyone that has lived in an apartment complex knows the smell. I was afraid, but thought, what the heck, others have not smelled too good and weren't bad vapes. Took one vape, oh man was that bad. I haven't tasted rotten garbage, but I think that is what it would taste like. Now, being the curious sort, I starting thinking "what if I screwed up something. Nothing can be that bad." So I cleaned everything out and tried it will all different equipment. Oh yeah, just as bad and well, almost emptied my stomach. The rest of the stuff from ECBlend went in the trash. I am not going to say they are a bad vendor, but if you make me almost throw up (twice) I am not about to continue to buy your stuff.

Well, once again that got longer than I had hoped. If you made it this far, thanks for reading. Hope this helps people in their ejuice choices in the future. I will try and make them shorter in the future, but with so many ones I did not like it was tough to put together a review.
 
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ECBlend that bad? I almost placed an order with them today. The descriptions and reviews sounded so good, and I really liked the ordering options - adding flavors, etc. I'm new with vaping so I'm looking for tried and true samplers to begin with. I'm also a coffeeholic and looking for the darkest, richest roast imaginable.

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ECBlend that bad? I almost placed an order with them today. The descriptions and reviews sounded so good, and I really liked the ordering options - adding flavors, etc. I'm new with vaping so I'm looking for tried and true samplers to begin with. I'm also a coffeeholic and looking for the darkest, richest roast imaginable.

Thx.

Some people here like them, so don't make my experience totally turn you off. Yet when doing a review I have to mention it. Their dragon's blood and kiss were not bad, and some people do like to mix flavors on their site. I'm simply not going to order from a vendor that will ship out something like that (I am more than willing to bet they messed up the batch, because there is no way it was meant to taste that way).

Overall I still thought they were subpar though. Up to you. They are cheap, so they have that going for them. At least you won't be out a lot of money if you give them a shot.

edit: Oh, and good luck with coffee vapes. As you can see I have tried a ton, and like many others I have not been able to find good ones (many from people that reviewed them and said they were good, and I really have to wonder how in the world anyone can find them a true coffee flavor). You will see in the DIY section there are people that extract their coffee flavors from coffee grounds because they too simply could not find a good coffee vape. It simply amazes me how many vendors can put out a product that is not coffee and still call it coffee. I understand personal preference and all, yet these were not even bad coffees. They simply were not coffee in any way. Burnt flavor and popcorn seems to be a common theme with how coffee vapes tend to taste. I am still trying though. If I find one I will definitely post it here.
 
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I like Highbrow's C. Diablo a lot (I prefer a very dark, strong roast coffee and theirs is my favorite for straight-up dark bean taste), but am loving Ahlusion's Tiramisu - there's a lot more going on there than just coffee but you might want to give it a try. It's my personal fave at the moment. Steep it!! Plume Room's Vanilla Caramel Frappachino is nice, too.
I had the same reaction to VV coffee flavors but VV juices and I just disagree. Also found Copper Creek coffee just eh.
 
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