Indeed, one may easily love one juice a vendor offers but hate the others. A quality flavor is hard to miss (barring running out) because of balance and complexity. I've recently discovered a coffee vape I found personally was the best out of all of them I tried out (I've tried several coffee vapes, some rated at the top of the 2011 list), but while I'm waiting to test out the Mocha Java Smooth from HHV, my current top pick is The Plume Room's Vanilla Caramel Frappuccino. The taste is entirely smooth, rich, and genuine to the name. Want2Vapes Campfire Coffee is an excellent performer in an atomizer, my luck was more varied in the carto's and it's likely I didn't let it steep long enough, may also have forgotten to shake it before the fill and was using a cleaned-out carto to begin with.
As Doctor Vapenstein has said in his reviews, performance is a very important quality to a good juice. If your devices are repeatedly gunking up, and you're having to clean them out (wasting whatever was in there in some cases) you're wasting time having to re-fill and clean more often, perhaps you need to get new cartos or attys because the gunk was so thick.
That being said, I have tried excellent juices from vendors that I loved the flavors of, then hated because they would gunk my devices up. Having to clean an atomizer out 3-4 times a day to vape something can get rather irritating for me, and I always seek this mixture as a whole: performance, value, flavor, vapor. Great vapor and flavor with either poor value or performance is an automatic thumbs down for me, simply because of the hassle and waste.
I find a complex mixture has me vaping it far longer so I may "feel out" the flavor, which also inspires me to mix different off the wall things together.
Right now? A few drops of The Plume Room's Vanilla Caramel Frappuccino with .75ml of 555.5 from Want2Vape, along with Want2Vape's Cold Infusion and ACID Blondie (.25ml) in a DCT. Yeah, I change it up often, but I have to or I stop tasting what makes each juice so good.
(EDIT: I will note that doing this leads to "Aha!" moments when I vape the originals on their own, like the familiarity of the flavor brings it to the forefront or some sort of other olfactory phenomenon)
Will my top five change in the future? Sure. But I do know that I'll find the flavors and mixtures I enjoy the most along the way.
