Hi. I'm new to the forum, so I'm posting this here. I'm also sort of new to vaping (about 5 months) and even more recently tried making my own vapor. I am not new to tobacco, and I blended my own tobacco for about 10 years, so I know a bit about different kinds of tobaccos, brands, flavors, etc. Just some observations about FlavorArt's Virginia flavor:
It is VERY potent to my taste. I realize taste is subjective, but I diluted it by to only 20% and added ONE drop to 3 ml of VG base and it was still too strong. I diluted it again to only 10% and mixed one drop of the solution with some VG/PG nicotine carrier and it was just about to my liking. I might even dilute it further.
The taste to me is like the topping used on Virginia tobaccos. It reminds me of the topping used on Bali Shag Red, which is either pure Virginia or mostly Virginia leaf. To add some tobacco flavor, I used a small amount of Tobacco Absolute. The result isn't bad.
By the way, I love what a tiny, tiny, tiny amount of Tobacco Absolute does to these flavors. I have seen a lot of posts from people who don't like it and say it has a hay taste to it. Yeah, it does have a hay taste, but it also has a tobacco taste (the kind I'm using) and I don't use much of it at all, combine it with other flavors, and end up with a decent-tasting vapor that is more like a cigarette than a pile of hay.
In any case, I think 1% Virginia from FlavorArt is too high if one is aiming for a good tobacco flavor. Like I said, it tastes more like a tobacco topping, and a little Tobacco Absolute will help it to taste more like tobacco.
I don't think I'll ever be able to create an exact replica of a cigarette brand. I tried Dekang juices for a while, and some of them are okay if you don't compare them to whatever brand they are named for. I don't think Desert Ship tastes anything like a Camel, but it doesn't taste bad either. Vapor tastes better than commercial cigarettes anyway. It's like people observe when they blend their own quality tobacco - trying to emulate the taste of a Camel or Marlboro is an exercise in futility since the tobacco is quality instead of reconstituted God-knows-what from the factory floor, so it's kind of impossible to exactly mimic an inferior tobacco with a superior one. One might have more success trying to mimic the flavor of a good roll-your-own like that smooth-tasting Bali I mentioned or McClintock, which about ten years ago tasted really good and had a slight hint of apples (they don't make it like that anymore).
Happy vaping.
It is VERY potent to my taste. I realize taste is subjective, but I diluted it by to only 20% and added ONE drop to 3 ml of VG base and it was still too strong. I diluted it again to only 10% and mixed one drop of the solution with some VG/PG nicotine carrier and it was just about to my liking. I might even dilute it further.
The taste to me is like the topping used on Virginia tobaccos. It reminds me of the topping used on Bali Shag Red, which is either pure Virginia or mostly Virginia leaf. To add some tobacco flavor, I used a small amount of Tobacco Absolute. The result isn't bad.
By the way, I love what a tiny, tiny, tiny amount of Tobacco Absolute does to these flavors. I have seen a lot of posts from people who don't like it and say it has a hay taste to it. Yeah, it does have a hay taste, but it also has a tobacco taste (the kind I'm using) and I don't use much of it at all, combine it with other flavors, and end up with a decent-tasting vapor that is more like a cigarette than a pile of hay.
In any case, I think 1% Virginia from FlavorArt is too high if one is aiming for a good tobacco flavor. Like I said, it tastes more like a tobacco topping, and a little Tobacco Absolute will help it to taste more like tobacco.
I don't think I'll ever be able to create an exact replica of a cigarette brand. I tried Dekang juices for a while, and some of them are okay if you don't compare them to whatever brand they are named for. I don't think Desert Ship tastes anything like a Camel, but it doesn't taste bad either. Vapor tastes better than commercial cigarettes anyway. It's like people observe when they blend their own quality tobacco - trying to emulate the taste of a Camel or Marlboro is an exercise in futility since the tobacco is quality instead of reconstituted God-knows-what from the factory floor, so it's kind of impossible to exactly mimic an inferior tobacco with a superior one. One might have more success trying to mimic the flavor of a good roll-your-own like that smooth-tasting Bali I mentioned or McClintock, which about ten years ago tasted really good and had a slight hint of apples (they don't make it like that anymore).
Happy vaping.
