Vaping aroma/smell....?

[Bric]

Just sitting here at work and was wondering if the vapor from the e-cig has a smell that corresponds to the flavor you are vaping?

There's always someone who seems to be offended nowadays by something. Granted an e-cig shouldn't smell like a dirty ashtray, but just exactly how much does the vapor smell if any? Like if I ordered some bourbon flavored juice, would someone be whining that they could smell liquor?

I work in a control room at a power plant. Most co-workers wouldn't say anything but there's always one in a bunch..... TIA!

 

[newbutt]

All I vape is Cafe Sumatra & my wife is always complaining that the smell of coffee is too strong. Geeeez! But she complains about most everything I do

 

[huntersday]

Good question. Never thought of that. I don't have any alcohol juice but just ran a test with my wife and the findings were: Yes, though she couldn't guess any of the fruits correctly, she got mocha and menthol easy. To be on the safe side, you should switch carts to something less alcoholicy when working at the power plant Anyone else wanna chime in on the bourbon? I'm curious about sticky icky aromas.

 

[HeatherC]

My 15 yr old son says he occasionally gets a smell like i'm chewing a piece of gum with the menthol but other than that he says he can't smell or taste it. When my hubby and I were smoking he could....he wouldn't sit in the living room with us for very long (not real surprising that a teen doesn't want to hang with his parents.) but now he comes out and sits with us all the time!!

 

[kj4lxw]

I asked some coworkers I trust if they could smell anything while I was vaping at work.
In one instance I was vaping cherry cola and my bud said that it smelled like candy. Not candy on your breath, but when someone opens a wrapper with some hard candy in it and you can smell it. He said it was very faint and had to be close to smell it.

Second one I was sitting ina vehicle, forget what flavor I was using. Buddy #2 said it was a very faint smell similar to incense.

Both times it was the "after" scent when I was not actively vaping in front of them.

When I showed it to my wife we were sitting next to each other at home and I vaped a drag of cola flavor, she said it smelled like cloves (?!?!?). Yeah you figure it out.

May be different if someone walks into a cloud of vapor you just produced but otherwise I am thinking any trances of aroma or scent (I will not call it odor) will be faint.
It is nothing close to how you can smell it on a person when they just had a cigarette. And most people have a stronger odor from the perfumes or colognes they wear.

 

[Bric]

Good information all, thanks!

May have to break the guys in easy with the bourbon in the control room but all the others should be A-OK.

Bric

 

[Bombenhagel]

I've mixed up some rather strong clove flavors with various distinct mixed fruit and spice palates.

I set up a blind tasting focus group with 2 friends the other weekend... very informal.

One of my friends' gfs who doesn't smoke said it smells like incense (generally speaking) at close range and is better than cigarette smoke.

She's been the only one. He's probably going to order this week.

 

[CaptJay]

Now you will be a human airfreshener instead of a walking ashtray
The kids think all my juices smell like 'cookies' (and none are) lol

 

[HeatherC]

LOL I think anything that gets our kids to hang with us more has to be a good thing.

 

[CaptJay]

lol well they also think vaping is 'lame' jsut not as lame as smoking which is 'uber lame and for losers' lol

 

[HeatherC]

Yep I like that my son doesn't think i'm as lame as i was LOL

 

[CaptJay]

The last thing I want is for them to think its cool - they think not smoking is cool but not vaping (although its less lame than smoking lol) - but I tell them over n over that ecigs are for desperate old smokers (which makes them laugh)

 

[Automaton]

I notice the fruit flavors in particular tend to leave a lingering smell, perhaps because that's what I vape a lot of. But what's wrong with a light fruity scent?

I've had people say then can smell it a bit, but it's a light, unobtrusive smell. It could just as easily be me sucking on a piece of candy or an air freshener.

So, I smell like candy. I think that's a good thing!

 

[kj4lxw]

Heck yeah, way, WAY better than that after smell I used to have after going outside and puffing on a cancer stick.

 

[Candyhands]

My wife claimed the regular tobacco cart I was vaping smelled like potpurri. I had to laugh. She was burning a scented candle at the time.

 

[guitarman023]

Cinnabomb is my daily, and my room mate always asks if I was making cinnamon rolls

 

[kj4lxw]

You know between what my wife said and some of the other replies here I would think that the scent from vaping , unless a strongly scented flavor, is very faint and ends up mixing with other ambient fragrances. Meaning it an be easily masked by others aromas.

 

[dizzy1]

I work in an office building surrounded by others in cubicles - no complaints yet - of courese all i vape is pure vg with nic.

 

[The Big Chief]

A slight smell for a short time, but yes, its more of a air freshener kinda smell, and disappears just as fast. Ppl love the chocolate, it makes em hungry

 

[Kubi]

There's always someone who seems to be offended nowadays by something.

So true.