RY4's on test:
Today I'm going to have a look at two juices from relatively new uk vender: vapistvapours. These guys and girls started out over on the uk Vapers forum and whilst I'm not a regular poster over there, i became aware of their juices thanks to Scott over on ECR (YouTube name: igetcha69)
First up an unusual sounding RY4 variant known as Doctor Why For? (Dr-Y4)
It's 16mg nic and a nice and simple 50/50 PG/VG mix
This juice is, frankly weird. I still don't really know if I like it. Blinding buying 30mls of the stuff (it's pretty cheap though) as I did I don't know if I'm trying to convince myself I like it or if, in fact I geuinely do.
The first unmistakable quality to me, is its exceedingly heavy vanilla tones. This is a very heavy vanilla mix but one which manages to not come across as a burnt custard or too sweet on the high end as is often the case with vanilla heavy mixes. This mix retains an earthy Tobacoo bass with vanilla flourishes on the exhale. It's almost a heavy Tobacoo and vanilla mix all in one. It's difficult to describe and is certianly among the most unusual Ry4 mixes I've ever vaped.
It's not classic Ry4 at all. If there is caramel here it's so background and drowned by sweet vanilla and earthy Tobacoo it's presence is near absent entirely. For a mix which sits in with Ry4 variants it perhapes deserves its own little section outside of this labelling because, in the strictest sense, this isn't RY4 by any measure we'd know it as. I'd class this as a Tobacoo juice with a sweet but actually quite pleasent vanilla (if you like vanilla, if you don't, you'll hate this juice).
Final notes: oddly this juice is incredibly red looking. It looks very artificial and is certianly the only RY4 mix I've ever had that was near bright red in colour. Anyone who has tried janty vanilla elixir will know the red I mean here, it's the same.
The Tobacoo is earthy, nutty but also has an rather unmistakable and slightly unfortunate sense of sweat or staleness to it. It's not over powering or strong, but it's there. Hints of it mix with the earthy Tobacoo leaf and linger slightly to long on the exhale.
I don't dislike this juice (i think!) but it's not something I could vape all day. The signature vanilla heavy nature of it gets rather boring over extended periods and I got a little sick of it after filling my reo grand with it, I was happy to see it replaced out for something else come the end. I'll vape it again, but I can't in good faith recommend to fellow Ry4 fans, unless, you like a vanilla heavy Tobacoo blend. Odd juice, almost works then, but not quite.
Next from vapistvapours:
RY4. 50/50. 16mg
This mix I expected to be quite different from the above juice. Yes it's the same vendor and yes most vendors have signature tobaccos which are used across multiple juices, but, at the end of the day they are two seperate products and so I thought, two different flavours would be apparent.
Selling this as an Ry4, one rightly has some expectations of a classic Ry4 flavour notes.There are hints of it, but with that oddly vanilla heavy, earthy stale tobacoo (which must be vapistvapours signature Tobacoo) this Ry4 dosent really work for me. It's incredibly similar to the doctor mix above. It's perhapes a sweeter mix and the vanilla is slightly less pronounced here, but it's cut from the same cloth.
I don't get much caramel from this Ry4. Whilst lessoned over the doctor variety, it's a vanilla heavy Tobacoo blend Ry4 and again, like the doctor mix, one where the strong vanilla flavour out stays its welcome and makes the juice pretty hard to recommend as an all day vape or really as one wrth considering over other superior RY4 blends.
Final notes: These are unique Ry4's. The Tobacoo base is like none other I've ever tried (though closest I suppose to a red label Totally Wicked mix) and whilst I found it out stayed its welcome in both mixes here, the vanilla is actually a success in the sense it avoids a burnt dessert / custard flavour so many vanilla heavy blends suffer from. Try only if you like vanilla then, but otherwise I'd say maybe give them a miss if you really only want classic Ry4 flavours without compromise.
cant wait to try it.
