The 30ml green glass dropper bottle sent to me by Sean at CrystalELiquid for review contains the most transparent niquid I can ever remember seeing in any RY4. Its almost colorless at 24mg nic strength in a fairly thick 50PG/50VG base. Testing was performed in a 2.2 ohm Boge LR carto on a Vector VV set to 4.3 volts, for a power output of 8.4 watts.
I compared
RY4 Double Tobacco head-to-head with CrystalELiquids regular RY4. So far as I can tell, this is the same basic recipe and flavor profile as in their earlier regular edition RY4, with the exception of having twice the percentage of tobacco flavoring in the mix, thus RY4 Double Tobacco (duh!).
I was very impressed with the original, which is one of the few (if not the only) American-made RY4 that uses the Classic Chinese RY4 flavor profile. The only significant deviation I could discern from some Classic RY4s (i.e., Janty or Dekang) was that CrystalELiquids version was clearly a dessert vape in its distinct sweetness, closer to VaporTalk Dulcis (which is a Chinese-manufactured liquid, or so I am told). This puts it in good company, since Dulcis remains one of my personal favorite RY4s.
RY4 Double Tobacco has the same
quality of sweetness as the regular RY4, but---with twice the tobacco flavoring---the
impact of sweetness is diminished in effect. Sweet is relegated to singing back-up harmonies (with its sisters Good Caramel and Nice Vanilla) as Tobacco grabs the lead mike to belt out the melody. This kicked-up RY4 has more tobacco presence, depth, bite, and throat hit. Oh, its still an RY4, and very clearly so---since the caramel and vanilla make their presence felt in the well-blended juice---but tobacco is the star. As far as I can tell, nuts stayed in the dressing room on this one. At least I couldn't find it onstage. Maybe it's still in the studio overdubbing.
I presume the tobacco flavoring to be synthetic, but I dont know that for sure. If it is a synthetic, its a good one, with no off-flavors or weird undertones.
RY4 Double Tobacco successfully straddles the twin markets of Classic versus Custom RY4 vapers. Many of those who like Classic RY4s will also like this one, while some of those who prefer Custom RY4 formulations may find this juice surprisingly satisfying. And, of course, lovers of straight tobacco
and RY4 should definitely give this juice a go. You might find that, even if CrystalELiquids new edition cant possibly be the best of
both worlds, it holds its own in each realm quite nicely.
Grade:
A-
Link:
RY4 Double Tobacco