Suggestions for what to make with these flavors?

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Erichigley

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I'm looking for suggestions on any good mixtures with the following flavors that are on the way. I'm completely new to this and this will be my first mixture. Any help is appreciated! I purchased a starter kit from Heartland vapes, and would appreciate percentages as well. I have the following flavors coming:

Strawberry (tfa)
Bavarian Cream (tfa)
Double Chocolate (clear) (tfa)
Toasted Almond (FW)
Caramel (original) (tfa)
Raspberry (sweet) (tfa)
Sugar cookie (fw)

Let me know what you think!
 
This may sound really boring, but there is real value in making a small single-flavor batch of each of the flavors. Also, as a matter of QC, making a small batch of unflavored juice will enable you to ensure the nic base, VG, and PG are OK. Once you know how everything tastes by itself, you will be able to fine tune your combinations much more effectively. And just in case there is a problem with one of the ingredients (not likely, but possible), it is far better to know that before making complex mixtures.
 

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+1 on starting with single flavor mixes. Once you have that down you'll know what the flavor profile is for that particular flavor and how much to use and what will go good together or not. It will then open up you imagination to a world of combinations that will fit your particular taste..
 

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^^^^ What they said, plus percentages is something you'll need to work out for yourself as well. The TFA in particular seems to be all over the map. That's a nice bunch of flavors though and it looks like several of them should go together ok.

About the only tip I can give you is to go very easy on the caramel. It's good but it gunks your coils faster than you can say jack rabbit.
 

Erichigley

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Thanks for the input, however, I don't think I really want to vape these all day long by themselves. I was hoping to find a good recipe for a mixture of some of these. I have no clue about percentages and I feel like I would learn quicker by making different recipes.

This is all just my opinion, so take it or leave it, as you see fit, but how do you know you will like them any better in combinations than by themselves, if you do not try them? But that is not really the main point of starting out with single flavors. The point is to become familiar with each flavor so you know what it is contributing to the overall flavor of a mixture. People share recipes here all the time, but more often than not, the person that uses someone else's recipe comes back and says something to the effect of, "That was pretty good, but I added a bit more of this or a bit less of that, and now I like it even better." How will you know which this or that needs to go up or down for your taste?

Also, you can take the 5-10 ml bottles of the single flavor test juices and play around with combining them in different ratios into your PV, seeing how they affect each other, sometimes in surprising ways. And to be frank, it is quite possible you will get recipes from others, mix them as directed, and truly dislike the outcome. Again, how will you know which parts of the recipe you do not like?

On top of that, how do you know you actually like the flavorings you have at all? Maybe you mix up 5 or 10 ml of one of them, vape it, and think it is disgusting. Wouldn't it be better to know that before committing the time and resources using it in complex recipes? Just because it sounds like something you will like, and other people rave about how wonderful it is, does not guarantee that you will like it at all. Read this forum long enough, and you will see that one man's treasure is sometimes another man's puke-inducing horrid garbage. On the other hand, you just might like one of those flavors a lot by itself, and why not know that too? You might actually prefer it to the zillions of other people's recipes you can try.

And there is no reason you cannot also mix up a few recipes at the same time you make your single-flavor test batches, if you are feeling adventurous.
 
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