What is that horrible taste???

[Davenkay]

I've been DIY'ing for about 8 months now and have a preference for tobacco flavors. I have had good success with TFA "Double RY-4" and RY-4.5 from BlueMist vaping (now called Azure vaping). On the other hand, I bought BlueMist "Robacco" and "Black Jack" and "Marley". And I just bought a very expensive bottle of "4 star General" from MyFreedomSmokes.

They have been mixed light (3-6%). When vaped they have a terrible taste like taking a swig from a bottle of cheap perfume. Or remember when your old grandmother would give you a big kiss when you were a kid???

What the heck is that taste, so I can try to avoid it when buying other flavors.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[The Yeti]

I've had the nasty perfume taste myself, but mostly with fruity type flavors not tobaccos.

I just got a bunch of tobacco flavors from Vaping Zone, the Super Concentrated flavors. These are seriously the best flavors I have ever had in over 3 years of vaping, just outstanding. Even when mixed quite strongly (I mistakenly put 20 drops in a 20ml bottle at first) there is no hint of nastiness, just a lot of flavor. I did cut most of them down to 5-10 drops per 20ml and they taste incredible.

 

[Red_Bird]

Could be alcohol added to the concentrate(s) you used.....Leave the cap off for 3 days or so and then cap it up.....let it sit awhile, maybe another 10 days....

try it again....

Could be overflavored if it doesn't improve.

 

[Davenkay]

Thanks for the advice. My quest continues for juices that taste good to my tongue.

 

[dannyv45]

Vapingzone does have really good flavoring and the problem as mentioned earlier could be the alcohol or it did not steep long enough or maybe this new batch of flavoring is more concentrated then what you used to use. Although 3 - 6% is not very high you can try pooring a 5ml test batch and delute it 5 - 10% with your pg/vg/ni base.

 

[hottierockstar]

Could be alcohol added to the concentrate(s) you used.....Leave the cap off for 3 days or so and then cap it up.....let it sit awhile, maybe another 10 days....

try it again....

Could be overflavored if it doesn't improve.

also shake shake shake it like a polaroid picture (with the cap on of course) throughout the "steeping" process. I have one flavor that the "perfume" will just not go away...it has become an in extreme emergency only bottle so far....

 

[dannyv45]

I had one tobacco flavor that made me gag. It was the only batch and flavor that ever wound up in the garbage.

 

[Davenkay]

UPDATE

I took this flavor and force-steeped it by putting it in a beaker and stirring it for several hours at high speed on my lab mixer. Also immersed the beaker in scalding hot water for several cycles. The juice has lost the "gagging" perfume taste and there is just a slight hint of that flavor in the background.

I'm going to remix some of the other tobacco flavors using this method and see how they turn out. I would really like to know what component imparts that taste so it can be avoided in future purchases of flavorings.

 

[markfm]

As noted, perfume is classically alcohol, pretty common depending on the particular vendor/flavoring. Cap off (including, optionally with a fan blowing over the fully open bottle) for a period of time, or other similar methods, will evaporate it off a bit.