TFA - Honey, what to do with it?!

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jozef-3d

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So I've been struggling with how to use the honey from TFA. I seem to get terrible results with it, even at small amounts. It smells and taste like talcum powder/baby powder with a floral undertone reminiscent of funeral home flowers.

Anyone use this honey flavor at all? I'm close to dumping my whole bottle.




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I've herd that there have not been to many successes with it. It will most likely need a good long steep and you should start at 2% with that.

It's good to know I'm not the only one. Even at 1% it was still unpleasant. Perhaps I can try making a 5ml juice and let it steep for a month. I fear I'll probably still end up dumping it.




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afaic, tfa honey is a lost cause. I like quite a few of their flavors, just not that one. 5 weeks...2 months and still no joy. It's ranged from grandma powder to burning rubber at different %. 2 really good Honey flavors are VZSC Gourmet and Inawera with Inawera holding top spot. You'd think I was their shill or something haha. No, just good stuff.
 

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No amount of steeping, sitting, bathing, whatever you want to call will change a bad flavor into a good flavor. It is known that I am extremely biased against such acts, and I find the idea of flavors magically morphing from unvapable to ADV's ridiculous.

To clarify: I don't find anything wrong with allowing a blend, or flavoring to settle. Many times this can take just a couple of hours. But when I read that people make juices and do not vape them for days, weeks, or even over a month, I can't help but to shake my head in wonder.

If that's how people like to to do their thing, more power to them. But telling people that a bad flavor will get better by sitting around for any given amount of time is bad advice. My opinion: Throw it out, try again with a new supplier.

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TFA Honey sucks (IMO)!


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Thanks for the warning. I received a sample from WL some time ago and was wondering what to do with it. Guess I'll "round file it". ;)

My experience is with The Flavor Apprentices Honey. I haven't tried WL so I can't say about that..plus I don't know who WL is :)

I wonder if anyone likes TFAs honey at all.




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Although I haven't tried either one of these, I read good things about TFA Honeysuckle, which imparts a sweetness to liquids and doesn't smell like urine ;). Might that be more to your taste?

Honeysuckle is a floral. It is named honeysuckle because you can suck nectar out of the base of the flower. 'Cept I just ate the bases of the flowers when I was a kid. I am sucking on that right now, and it is as authentic as it can be!!

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Glad I read this, I've been eyeing TFA's honey, guess I'll skip it.

Honeysuckle I liked, a grassy floral that mellows a little to a sweeter floral, a little reminiscent of jasmine but less intense. Not really honey-like though, fairly close to actually eating honeysuckle, like biting the stem and everything, there's a definite green taste that remains in the sweetness.

Also glad to see I'm not the only kid that ate flowers.
 
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