I have sort of discovered this really fun way to continually mix flavors to keep my vaping interesting.
It is a way to easily come up with new flavors by continually adding to an already working recipe that never goes empty.
The nice thing about doing it this way is that if it ever goes deep south on you and you have to dump it, you're losing a really tiny amount of juice.
I take a 3ml bottle and start by adding some basic flavors from different juices that 'should' blend easily to make a tasteful juice.
For example, last night I started a new basic recipe like this, I'm guestimating percentages.
I was looking to make an apple-based very slightly mentholated, light and airy 'cooler' fruit vape:
The two primary flavors starting out, the Apples, were probably on the order of 30-40 drops each, although I didn't count them, just trying to give you a perspective.
40% Caramel Apple (Bluemistvaping)
40% Cinnamon Apple (Stormy's Vapor Cellar)
5% Cherry flavorant, ~4 drops (Bluemistvaping)
10% Vanilla Bean 2x, ~6 drops (Vixen Vapor)
.05%Hypermint flavorant, ~2 drops (Bluemistvaping)
.05%The Chill Factor, 1 drop (Bluemistvaping)
Vaped it, it was a good start, but pretty unexciting flavor-wise.
Basic apple flavor, but nothing else really stood out.
Vaped a carto's worth of it, tasting tasting tasting...then added to it:
CinMint 2x, 5 drops (Vixen Vapor)
Vanilla Bean 2x, 5-7 drops (Vixen Vapors)
Raspberry, 5 drops (Bluemistvaping)
Chocolate Covered Cherry, 3 drops (Vixen Vapors)
Bluberry, 5 drops (NiteLiteVapors)
MUCH better, I'm vaping the HECK outta this mix.
It now hit the area I was looking for, a nicely blended apple/cherry/vanilla/cinnamon/menthol-based cooler with some other small accents, and I can TASTE the other accents.
If I couldn't, I would keep adding drops until the flavors finally show up.
But Apple is the primary ingredient for this one, everything else is just accents.
The second time around, the cherry is now much more pronounced and is really mixing great with the apple.
I consider it now an established good flavor and will vape it until the carto is done.
But now that the basic working recipe is in place, I can modify that little 3ml bottle every day with a few drops of whatever flavor I want to 'lean' it towards for that day, adding in the required Apple to keep the base flavor intact, and just keep re-filling the same carto with it every day.
One day lean heavy on the cinnamon, another day lean heavier on the vanilla, add some caramel or honey maybe...as long as I stay withing the basic context of the recipe, this little 3ml bottle will never completely empty and is sort of like a long-running mini-series.
Maybe not a 4-start epic movie 30ml bottle, but a good mini-series.
I really enjoy switching up flavors to keep the vaping interesting without having to continually buy new juices to try out. This way is a really 'safe' way to experiment with flavors AND find new flavors you really like within what you already have in the house.
This method I think works far better if you have a lot of base flavors in the house and menthol flavorants separate (if you like menthol).
Another base recipe I could think of would be a chocolate/cherry base, maybe add a few drops of banana, hint of cinnamon...sprinkle of vanilla maybe...
It is a way to easily come up with new flavors by continually adding to an already working recipe that never goes empty.
The nice thing about doing it this way is that if it ever goes deep south on you and you have to dump it, you're losing a really tiny amount of juice.
I take a 3ml bottle and start by adding some basic flavors from different juices that 'should' blend easily to make a tasteful juice.
For example, last night I started a new basic recipe like this, I'm guestimating percentages.
I was looking to make an apple-based very slightly mentholated, light and airy 'cooler' fruit vape:
The two primary flavors starting out, the Apples, were probably on the order of 30-40 drops each, although I didn't count them, just trying to give you a perspective.
40% Caramel Apple (Bluemistvaping)
40% Cinnamon Apple (Stormy's Vapor Cellar)
5% Cherry flavorant, ~4 drops (Bluemistvaping)
10% Vanilla Bean 2x, ~6 drops (Vixen Vapor)
.05%Hypermint flavorant, ~2 drops (Bluemistvaping)
.05%The Chill Factor, 1 drop (Bluemistvaping)
Vaped it, it was a good start, but pretty unexciting flavor-wise.
Basic apple flavor, but nothing else really stood out.
Vaped a carto's worth of it, tasting tasting tasting...then added to it:
CinMint 2x, 5 drops (Vixen Vapor)
Vanilla Bean 2x, 5-7 drops (Vixen Vapors)
Raspberry, 5 drops (Bluemistvaping)
Chocolate Covered Cherry, 3 drops (Vixen Vapors)
Bluberry, 5 drops (NiteLiteVapors)
MUCH better, I'm vaping the HECK outta this mix.
It now hit the area I was looking for, a nicely blended apple/cherry/vanilla/cinnamon/menthol-based cooler with some other small accents, and I can TASTE the other accents.
If I couldn't, I would keep adding drops until the flavors finally show up.
But Apple is the primary ingredient for this one, everything else is just accents.
The second time around, the cherry is now much more pronounced and is really mixing great with the apple.
I consider it now an established good flavor and will vape it until the carto is done.
But now that the basic working recipe is in place, I can modify that little 3ml bottle every day with a few drops of whatever flavor I want to 'lean' it towards for that day, adding in the required Apple to keep the base flavor intact, and just keep re-filling the same carto with it every day.
One day lean heavy on the cinnamon, another day lean heavier on the vanilla, add some caramel or honey maybe...as long as I stay withing the basic context of the recipe, this little 3ml bottle will never completely empty and is sort of like a long-running mini-series.
Maybe not a 4-start epic movie 30ml bottle, but a good mini-series.
I really enjoy switching up flavors to keep the vaping interesting without having to continually buy new juices to try out. This way is a really 'safe' way to experiment with flavors AND find new flavors you really like within what you already have in the house.
This method I think works far better if you have a lot of base flavors in the house and menthol flavorants separate (if you like menthol).
Another base recipe I could think of would be a chocolate/cherry base, maybe add a few drops of banana, hint of cinnamon...sprinkle of vanilla maybe...
