During 2012, I was a big fan of Turkish Blend from AromaEJuice. That's one of Aroma's liquids sold without WTA. I don't know if Sahara (AeJ's WTA-laced Turkish) is the same as Turkish Blend except for the addition of WTA, or if it's a different flavor profile partially or entirely.
The translation of tobacco brands into vaping liquid has always made me scratch my head in consternation. You know, there's the whole Marlboro, M-Type, Cowboy thing, and the Camel, Kamel, Desert Ship, Desert, Sahara group of juices. Since experience suggests that synthetic tobacco flavoring can never get even remotely close to replicating the flavor of any real tobacco blend, is this mostly associative brand-recognition marketing? Yes, I understand that juicemakers do try to produce liquids whose flavors will somehow activate the same brain areas as smoking a Marlboro or a Camel (or any of the numerous other cigarette brands with ejuice namesakes: 555, Benson & Hedges, Parliament, Davidoff, Dunhill, Newport, yadayada), but that has never worked with my particular brain.
This is not suggest that I loathe all synthetic tobacco juices. Far from it. Despite the failure of synthetic tobacco flavorings to accurately replicate the taste and experience of smoked tobacco, they are nonetheless creatures in their own right, with flavor profiles that draw from many different taste associations to cobble together that sort-of-tobacco-but-not-really-yet-still-tasty end result. I will always take a good NET over a bad synthetic, but sometimes a good synthetic can be a pleasure.
And so it was with Aroma Turkish blend, at least for about 8 months of 2012. I was initially impressed and captivated by how smooth and rich the flavor was, and how everything in the juice's components cooperated to produce that smooth richness, with no stray elements to mar my enjoyment. To me, that's one hallmark of a well-made juice: everything contributes, nothing detracts. I vaped about 40mls of Aroma Turkish over those eight months, right up to the point where I discovered that I had fallen out of love with it. I didn't go from love to hate, I went from love to indifference, from "this is good, and I really like it" to "this is still good, but I no longer care."
During my time of enthrallment, I purchased many other synthetic Turkish-blend juices and DIY flavorings. Most were good, but none topped Aroma Turkish. In the aftermath of my break-up, however, they're all about equal to me now: OK, but so what?
In the NET Turkish realm, I haven't tried Sahara from Ahlusion, but I am on my second 30ml bottle of Wild Turkey by GeJ. Except for the fact that I hate the name (Wild Turkey is a brand of bourbon whiskey, for heaven's sake!), my first bottle of that NET juice was very good, although my newer bottle is nowhere near as impressive. But then, even my first bottle of GeJ Wild Turkey was a reverse-steeper---raw, punchy, in-your-face, and altogether terrific when fresh, but it diminished over time to a mere shadow of its former aggressive adolescence. My second bottle tastes pre-steeped, unfortunately. No doubt many sexual metaphors could be applied here: hormone-driven versus hormone-depleted, etc., but let's just say that my second bottle of Wild Turkey isn't as vital as I was hoping. (That reverse-steeping tameness seems to apply also to GeJ Fire-Cured.)
close but no Turkish/Oriental I've had before, not a bad flavor overall but I get the slightest hint of something like Cinnamon or maybe Cardamon. I loaded a T2 2.2Ohms @4 volts, got the same flavor note which tasted like Cardamon, I've had a Cardamon Tea Vape and this is closer to that than Turkish.
