Taditional tobacco doesn't taste like any tobacco..

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Dan33

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To me Turkish tastes nothing like tobacco. To me it taste like marshmallow flavored cleaning product.
Halo's "tobaccos" have a taste that I cannot describe. They do not resemble anything familiar, at least to me, from basic or even complex flavors commonly found in eatable products. I can totally see how these kinds of flavors might appear "chemical" to some people. In fact, it is a good description, but strangely, I happened to like their "chemical," for the lack of a better word, taste. I just wish they would have been layered on a great tobacco base. I am thinking of doing a little DYI and mixing, say, London from Want2Vape with, say, Halo's Captain Jack or Torgue 56.

The only exceptions to the above, in my opinion, are Turkish (mild pipe tobacco), Midnight Apple (even milder pipe tobacco with a faint apple flavor) and Prime 15 (strong mix of vanilla and graham cracker-ish flavor), but taste is subjective.

I'm not saying Dan is wrong, but taste is subjective. You will read this time and time again on vendor sites/ecf. It can get frustrating, but unfortunately it is true. My advice is try lots of different flavors, but order the smallest size possible to begin with. I think Patriot from goodejuice is a fantastic tobacco liquid that has a cigarette-like flavor. To you it could taste like swiss cheese soaked in grape juice.
I completely agree. Unless your taste is very similar to somebody you know, it is not a good idea to count on a vendor's description of flavors. The only way to find out is to order samples and try it yourself.

That having been said, generally speaking, I have found that fruit/drink/food based flavor descriptions are a lot closer to reality than tobacco flavors.
 

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That ECB redbox was terrible it smelled like an old leather shoe with tons of shoe polish on it. That is the best way I can describe it. Chew on a shoe with shoe polish and that's what vaping redbox is like.


I was wondering who got the shoe ... I got the sock. It literally tastes like an old nasty teenage boy's sock smells. I've been letting it steep, smelling it every couple of days or so -- still stinky sock, so I've not been brave enough to try it again.

It's a bummer as I was wanting a kind of harsh tobacco vape.
 

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I'm a pipesauce fan but I don't like the long bottom leaf. It does kind of remind me of an old sock. That is a perfect description. There are different families of T-flavors. I like the graham cracker ones. I don't like the anise ones or the musty ones. But that is me.

I tried vita bella and patriot and they were ok. Ordered a big bottle of CC house blend and can't tell if we agree or not yet.

The plume room has some neat flavors. A couple are not sweetened and tobaccoish but just not my cup of tea. Speaking of tea, some tea flavors are more cigarette like than a guy would think.

Maybe the OP needs some cinnamon and some lime to get his mind off looking for something that isn't really available. The flavors don't work the way one would think they do.
 

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I agree, mostly, but some cigarettes have a great taste, in my opinion. For example Rothmans International or John Players & Sons. I doubt anyone can truly recreate their taste, though.

That having been said, I also happened to like the taste of pipe/cigar tobacco. A lot of quality pipe/cigar tobaccos have a very complex, layered taste. For example Davidoff, Dunhill or Partagas, but they are pretty expensive and unlikely to be recreated as a vape, too. Still, London from Want2Vape is pretty good and I am sure there are some others. It just takes time to find what you like.

Yes, on the Players that was my cigarette of choice (Canadian), they have a juice up here called Playhers, but as I said before, not even close.
 

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Want2Vape.com has great tobacco juices. Their signature series, Morley, Ry4, Rock Star, and 555.5 are all good "tobacco" vapes ... And they have a sampler with 10 juices for $18 so you don't get stuck with a boatload of juice you don't like ...

Just thinking of placing an order with them. I was making a list and couldn't come up with a 10th choice. I already had all the ones you listed except for Rock Star. Looks like that'll be number 10.
 

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My Zen Atty parts and Pipesauces from ePipeMods are out for delivery. Come on mail man, get here already. I want to empty out the cracked quartz tank off the Zen, replace it with a stainless steel tank (2 quartz tanks have broken already), roll a new 500 mesh wick with a silica center and fire that bad boy up with some Long Bottom Leaf.
 

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Alright so the Pipesauces from ePipeMods arrived. The Oak Barrel Cider is good I haven't even attempted to try the Long Bottom Leaf yet. This is one of the bests...ok it is the best vape I've had so far. I'm no longer chained to Hot Blond from VapeDudes anymore as my all day vape. This is much better suited for Summer.
 

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You'll have to go with a Lab Created Juice... one of the juices that has most consistently compared to a real burning cigarette is Vappr Station's Tampa.
I always liked Tampa... I also think Halo's Freedom or one of Goodejuice's lab created juices might work well...

These juices have been brought up as some of the best "analogue" substitutes for more than a few years...

I would add to this list Halo Prime 15. It's never going to be a cigarette, but there is something to this juice that leaves that cig like feeling in your mouth. The one problem is that after a week and a half of steeping, the juice will get a little bit beyond that and turn more sweet. That said, I am experimenting with a way of keeping that juice suspended in an unsteeped state.

Also, if you wouldn't mind vaping a Euro cig, like Gauloises, you've absolutely got to try Paris from want2vape!
 
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