Where do the Pros shop?

[SteamWhistle]

I'm wanting to start a small line to sell locally. I have all my bottles and VG and Nic and all the fun stuff. But i've been extremely frustrated about where to order Flavor concentrates. I first tried Mt Baker and found that it doesnt taste the way i think it should. The banana tasted like chewing tobacco. So i started researching again for hours then weeks and now its been a month and cant find where i can just get good stuff.
So my question is where do the big brand names go to buy there stuff? Seriously doubt anyone really knows but brands like Suicide bunny, space jam, and the like. Brands that EVERYONE knows and who have been sold world wide. They seem to have rich good flavors that are always spot on. I know taste is different with everyone and its open to speculation. But again, where do i go? I dont want to waste hundreds of dollars and months testing everyones crap.

 

[LJGma]

try one stop DIY shop, they have a forum here and are in the forum suppliers above... they have several to chose from

 

[kaahn]

A lot do their own extractions at least in the realm of tobacco and vanilla flavors. Not quite sure about other flavors.

 

[Cool_Breeze]

China..?

 

[Hoosier]

I've been in quite a number of professional mixing rooms. Except for the hardware, metering pumps and such, I've never seen anything that isn't commonly known and available.

(They use TPA/TFA, FA, FW, Cap's...the same stuff I do. Don't know why they can't make juice as good as mine though. Well, actually I do. Same reason I'll never find an apple pie as good as my grandmother's paper bag pie. It was her technique and experience crafting the perfect pie regardless of the type or condition of the apples she managed to obtain. Anyone can get ahold of flour, apples, sugar, spices, and a paper bag from the grocery store, but only a special few can turn that into something so good that people will fight for a chance just to smell it.)

 

[Hoosier]

.....well darn.....

 

[Wampa Poacher]

Go to the DIY sub forum, if you haven't, lots of good stuff. Including a sticky called "best DIY flavorings of 2012" if nothing else it is a good list of the flavoring vendors.

Capellas
The Perfume Apprentice/ Flavor Apprentice
Lorr Ann's
Flavour Art
Flavor West