Vape juice lost its flavor

[MicheleK]

Okay. Here is my problem. I started vaping 8 months ago and absolutely went crazy with trying all the wonderful Flavors that are available. I smoked analog cigs for 34 years and when I found out about vaping it was like a kid in the proverbial candy store. I started with Tobacco Flavors and quickly moved on to fruit and then desert Flavors. I experienced vapors tongue in a matter of months. Thanks to the great advice I received from this forum and other more experienced vapors I resolved that problem. This is not the same thing but the result is the same.
In a very short time I was addicted to trying all the great vendors and their premium juice. Most days I would have 3 to 5 different Flavors going at the same time rotating my favorite (caramel, vanilla with a dose of cinnamon) in with other Flavors. What seems to be happening is my older juice (3-6 months old) seems to have lost most if not all of its original taste. I store all my e-juice the same way by keeping it cool and dark. I thought that by keeping my juice in a cool 60 to 68 degree area ie. closet, it would steep. The flavor would mature or increase by evaporation. This does not seem to be happening. Juice that I bought when I first started vaping does not have any taste at all. Can juice go bad or loose its flavor? Has anybody else experienced this or do I have to pour my expensive/ favorite juice down the drain?

 

[MasteroftheVape]

Honestly it depends on the flavor or more specificially, the chemicals that make the flavor. I'll compare it to alcohol even though fermentation isnt the culprit. Take a "fine wine" and an award winning beer. Let the wine age and it gets better and better, let the delicious brew age and it turns into vinegar. Let a cheap wine age and it turns for the worse. Some flavorings take a long time to fully mature, think rich tobacco's or some of the coffee/mocha flavors. Others only take days to at most a week to hit their prime, think fruits and the such. After it hits its prime, the only thing left is degradation.

 

[Zombiecan]

I jus got into vaping about a week and a half ago and I'm doing the same thing. I bought my starter kit and four different ejuice flavors (all fruity) and the other day I went to a local shop and bought two more one fruity and a chocolate mint one. Now reading this has me concerned about all my juices lol hopfully someone has some good input.

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[Randyryansr]

Vape the old juices after you've had a few glasses of the wine and you won't notice.

 

[Subdivisions]

When you say "increase by evaporation" do you mean that you're leaving the bottles open?? Doing this for a day or two initially is good for steeping because it lets some alcohol and volatile flavors evaporate but doing it for many months can destroy your juice from oxidation

 

[Gfinch]

Okay. Here is my problem. I started vaping 8 months ago and absolutely went crazy with trying all the wonderful Flavors that are available. I smoked analog cigs for 34 years and when I found out about vaping it was like a kid in the proverbial candy store. I started with Tobacco Flavors and quickly moved on to fruit and then desert Flavors. I experienced vapors tongue in a matter of months. Thanks to the great advice I received from this forum and other more experienced vapors I resolved that problem. This is not the same thing but the result is the same.
In a very short time I was addicted to trying all the great vendors and their premium juice. Most days I would have 3 to 5 different Flavors going at the same time rotating my favorite (caramel, vanilla with a dose of cinnamon) in with other Flavors. What seems to be happening is my older juice (3-6 months old) seems to have lost most if not all of its original taste. I store all my e-juice the same way by keeping it cool and dark. I thought that by keeping my juice in a cool 60 to 68 degree area ie. closet, it would steep. The flavor would mature or increase by evaporation. This does not seem to be happening. Juice that I bought when I first started vaping does not have any taste at all. Can juice go bad or loose its flavor? Has anybody else experienced this or do I have to pour my expensive/ favorite juice down the drain?

Sorry I have no advice pertaining to your question, just a question for you.
You mentioned a. Caramel vanilla flavor. My favorite ADV is a vanilla. Caramel from Vapor Essence based in Texas. I have not had any luck trying to clone it as of yet.
My question is what vendor do you get your Caramel Vanilla from? I would like to try it and compare it to the one from vapor Essence. For me vanilla caramel is vaping nirvana.


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[MicheleK]

This makes sense. I don't drink alcohol but the comparison is a good one. I have purchased juice from the more expensive "gourmet". Vendors as well as the less pricey vendors. Sometimes a $5.99 bottle will taste great for the first try, and then when I go back to the same vendor the taste is completely different for the same juice. At the same time a $22.00 bottle of gourmet juice will taste wonderful for a few days and then the taste fizzles out to almost nothing. Usually I will vape a juice for about a week and then change to another vendor or flavor. I always keep the top on tightly and store my juice in a dark box (shoe type box with a lid) in a cool place like a closet so I don't think they should evaporate enough to totally lose all flavor. Maybe it's just me and I have funky taste buds. Still confused.

 

[MicheleK]

I usually mix two or three different e-liquids to blend a vanilla/caramel I like. I have tried Just about every vendors vanilla or caramel at some point. These are some of the vendors I have used.
1. Nicoticket (all of them)
2. G2 Vapor Vazilla
3. Pink Spot
4. Zeus Juice (Vanilla Tahiti, Caramel Suprise)
5. Mount Baker Vapor
6. Johnson Creek
7. The Plume Room
8. Juice mafia
9. Heather's
10. Yaeliq
11. Vapor Chef
12. Fancee Juice
13. Indigo
14. Halo
and a few others. I know.... Obsessed in my quest for the best taste out there.

 

[MicheleK]

Thanks for the help...Lol

 

[CNYC]

As an avid fragrance collector I have stopped myself from over purchasing E-Liquids. I learned my lesson the hard way when expensive bottles of cologne went bad on me.

IMO you are much better off buying as you go. Why not let the company hold onto your E-Juice and let them worry about storing it....same thing with colognes. Or just buy 7ml until you really know what you like.

I have a hunch there will be 2 or 3 liquids that I will eventually stick with. I don't want to over think the E-Liquid thing. You buy a few you like that help you stop smoking analogs then you leave it alone.

 

[Tinkiegrrl]

Ouch. Now I'm worried about some of my stuff. I've been loving trying all the flavors out there. I have quite the extensive juice collection now. I've been hoping everything would just get better with age considering all the talk about steeping. I need to get myself a dripping atty so I can taste before I wind up priming a carto and filling a whole tank full of tasteless juice.


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