Sahara Blend from www.ahlusion.com
The Juice: Sahara Blend, received June 3rd, at 50/50 vg/pg and 12mg nic. It's described as "A non-aromatic blend based on slightly sweet Turkish and domestic (bright Virginia) blends."
The Hardware: IGO-S build with Ekowool and Kanthal 28awg at 1 ohm on V3 Sentinel mech clone. ERA build with German silica and Kanthal 31awg at 2.6 ohms on VAMO. (I prefered the flavor with the Ekowool over the German silica for this one, a first for a tobacco vape for me).
Ratings are from 1-5 depending on where a juice falls in an attributes spectrum. Only the last rating, "overall", is based on 5 being the best.
Sweetness: 2. How sweet this comes across seems to fluctuate for me. Sometimes there's a noticable sweetness, reminiscent to cane sugar, and sometimes it's very dry. Usually it's a slight leafy sweetness peaking from an overall dry vape. There's also a powdery mouthfeel that comes across as physically dry.
Tobacco Impact: 4. Sahara Blend is a medium tobacco through and through to me, neither mild nor aggressive. I moved the impact up a point because of the high complexity. During a slow exhale, there's a little spiciness to it. The spice is a lot like pepper, and very similar to the normal nicotine pepper-like spice, but different in a way I can't explain, other than it seems to come from the tobacco in addition to the nic. There's some noticable leafy notes that add some brightness and bite. It's hard for me to describe the flavors this tobacco provides, it's familiar Turkish and Virginia flavors, but with layers of unique and shifting notes. After vaping most of my 10ml bottle, I feel I'm not even close to having it all figured out yet.
Vapability: 5. Like other straight-up, medium impact tobaccos, I can vape this anytime. Once I pick it up, I want to vape it for a longer period than most other juices. Sahara Blend is smooth and easy to vape, but also complex and interesting, and a total shape-shifter.
Flavor Accuracy: 5. Ahlusion just nailed an enjoyable Turkish and Virginia vape. The scent is spot on, freshly opened pack of Camel cigarettes. The flavor provides layers that the smell of an unlit Camel cigarette hints at, but doesn't provide once lit. My best guess is that this contains extracted tobacco, but gets a LOT of it's flavor notes from artificial flavors. That could be wrong, but it sure doesn't play as a straight NET to me. It has some qualities that a very well made synthetic tobacco can provide.
Overall: 5. Sahara Blend is a masterwork of execution and tobacco flavor. It's just so well made, and does so many things right. This juice really has me question, does a great tobacco need to be a NET or a synthetic? Can it take qualities of both and appeal to fans of either one? I think it can, I would suggest this to tobacco vapers, whether they normally only vape NETs or only vape arti-bacco. The last thing I'll mention is the performance of this juice. I haven't been mentioning how well a juice performs in my reviews but need to here. This is one of the cleanest vaping juices of any style that I've experienced. There is almost zero build-up on the coil. I've referred to it as my atty refresher for it's impossibly clean performance.
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The Juice: Sahara Blend, received June 3rd, at 50/50 vg/pg and 12mg nic. It's described as "A non-aromatic blend based on slightly sweet Turkish and domestic (bright Virginia) blends."
The Hardware: IGO-S build with Ekowool and Kanthal 28awg at 1 ohm on V3 Sentinel mech clone. ERA build with German silica and Kanthal 31awg at 2.6 ohms on VAMO. (I prefered the flavor with the Ekowool over the German silica for this one, a first for a tobacco vape for me).
Ratings are from 1-5 depending on where a juice falls in an attributes spectrum. Only the last rating, "overall", is based on 5 being the best.
Sweetness: 2. How sweet this comes across seems to fluctuate for me. Sometimes there's a noticable sweetness, reminiscent to cane sugar, and sometimes it's very dry. Usually it's a slight leafy sweetness peaking from an overall dry vape. There's also a powdery mouthfeel that comes across as physically dry.
Tobacco Impact: 4. Sahara Blend is a medium tobacco through and through to me, neither mild nor aggressive. I moved the impact up a point because of the high complexity. During a slow exhale, there's a little spiciness to it. The spice is a lot like pepper, and very similar to the normal nicotine pepper-like spice, but different in a way I can't explain, other than it seems to come from the tobacco in addition to the nic. There's some noticable leafy notes that add some brightness and bite. It's hard for me to describe the flavors this tobacco provides, it's familiar Turkish and Virginia flavors, but with layers of unique and shifting notes. After vaping most of my 10ml bottle, I feel I'm not even close to having it all figured out yet.
Vapability: 5. Like other straight-up, medium impact tobaccos, I can vape this anytime. Once I pick it up, I want to vape it for a longer period than most other juices. Sahara Blend is smooth and easy to vape, but also complex and interesting, and a total shape-shifter.
Flavor Accuracy: 5. Ahlusion just nailed an enjoyable Turkish and Virginia vape. The scent is spot on, freshly opened pack of Camel cigarettes. The flavor provides layers that the smell of an unlit Camel cigarette hints at, but doesn't provide once lit. My best guess is that this contains extracted tobacco, but gets a LOT of it's flavor notes from artificial flavors. That could be wrong, but it sure doesn't play as a straight NET to me. It has some qualities that a very well made synthetic tobacco can provide.
Overall: 5. Sahara Blend is a masterwork of execution and tobacco flavor. It's just so well made, and does so many things right. This juice really has me question, does a great tobacco need to be a NET or a synthetic? Can it take qualities of both and appeal to fans of either one? I think it can, I would suggest this to tobacco vapers, whether they normally only vape NETs or only vape arti-bacco. The last thing I'll mention is the performance of this juice. I haven't been mentioning how well a juice performs in my reviews but need to here. This is one of the cleanest vaping juices of any style that I've experienced. There is almost zero build-up on the coil. I've referred to it as my atty refresher for it's impossibly clean performance.
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