why so extreme

[markfm]

Here's one. I just got some plain Vanilla flavoring in, and had some VG on hand. I mixed up a little just to see what it's like. I thought "Cool -- a clean vanilla taste, not too strong, but pleasant". Wifie's a non-puffer, but interested in seeing what the flavored stuff is like, and since this has no nic in it I let her try. She said "Nice flavor". My reply was "Yes, good vanilla." to which she said "No, it tastes like coconut -- I don't like vanilla."

 

[smilin0117]

Here's one. I just got some plain Vanilla flavoring in, and had some VG on hand. I mixed up a little just to see what it's like. I thought "Cool -- a clean vanilla taste, not too strong, but pleasant". Wifie's a non-puffer, but interested in seeing what the flavored stuff is like, and since this has no nic in it I let her try. She said "Nice flavor". My reply was "Yes, good vanilla." to which she said "No, it tastes like coconut -- I don't like vanilla."

LMAO

This happens with my Geoffs Blend all the time. What I taste in it...nobody else seems too...just yesterday my MIL said wow...the chocolate in that is fantastic.
I have never tasted chocolate in it....Its crazy

 

[Adja]

LMAO

This happens with my Geoffs Blend all the time. What I taste in it...nobody else seems too...just yesterday my MIL said wow...the chocolate in that is fantastic.
I have never tasted chocolate in it....Its crazy

ROFL That is so true smilin! I can't get past an overwhelming banana taste in Geoffs Blend. I have never seen anyone else mention banana when discussing it.

 

[smilin0117]

ROFL That is so true smilin! I can't get past an overwhelming banana taste in Geoffs Blend. I have never seen anyone else mention banana when discussing it.

Well if it makes you feel better--I DO taste banana...and cin, but def not chocolate!

 

[Adja]

Well if it makes you feel better--I DO taste banana...and cin, but def not chocolate!

On good! I didn't think I was crazy, but you never know . . .

 

[mondotoker760]

WoW....theres chocolate and banana in Geoffs blend?!?!?...lol...Ive never tasted either one!....I thought it taste alot like Juicy fruit gum or something! Wow... I thought it tasted familiar. Sounds like my buds need a overhaul...lol

 

[smilin0117]

WoW....theres chocolate and banana in Geoffs blend?!?!?...lol...Ive never tasted either one!....I thought it taste alot like Juicy fruit gum or something! Wow... I thought it tasted familiar. Sounds like my buds need a overhaul...lol

I dont think there is chocolate, but i am pretty sure he put one of his banana's in there.

 

[zbasspro]

I thnk it is banana nut bread. AC ,and tasty finger?

 

[smilin0117]

....o so maybe some chocolate...i dont know...i do know i like it...LMAO

 

[Neo]

Perhaps the differences ya'll are tasting isn't particular to vaping. If you go out to eat and order lasagna, do you sit around the table and dissect the flavors? I'm just wondering if you did perhaps you'd get the same story....it's heavy on the garlic, I don't taste enough garlic, is that sherry I taste, not enough salt....

I quit analogs well over a year ago and my taste buds are noticeably different now. When I first started vaping, I could barely taste any juice except minty stuff. Since then, I've altered many of my DIY recipes since I began making stuff for myself because my taste buds seem to be functioning much better. But it took at least 6 months off the analogs before I noticed a difference.

 

[J-ShaZzle]

I love food so I always dissect everything I eat. I refuse to buy anything frozen or pre-made. I never use the microwave unless I'm reheating something and even then I'm not a big fan.

I like to think of vaping a lot like alcohol drinks. You know what you like. If it's a mixed drink and made with cheap stuff. You can tell instantly.

 

[Lorizgal]

I agree that taste is subjective-
I agree that 99% of us are experiencing changing taste as our taste buds recover-
I agree that different people like different taste-
I agree that many people have favorite brands for flavors-

Most e-juices composition has nothing to do with the actual composition of the flavors they are supposed to represent. They are chemicals that are mixed to trigger the proper receptors in our taste buds to make us think we are tasting a particular flavor.

What I don't understand is the extreme variance in correlation for one flavor between 2 or more people. If I hand someone an e-juice that is supposed to taste like apple pie I would expect various responses; ie. "I can taste the apple but no cinnamon or pie crust", "I can taste cinnamon but no apple", "I can taste some of the flavors but I don't really like it". Not "Man that is nasty, are you sure that's apple pie". That's what confuses me, not that people have different taste, but that those differences can be so extreme with e-juices.

Now for everyone out there thinking, " Dude, you are waaaaay over thinking this". My main concern in this is, over the last 3 months I have tried 30 some odd flavors and I have only found 2 that I can stick with. There have been others that I liked the flavor but they tended to change if i vaped them for more than 5 minutes or became dull after a couple of days and I loose interest. ( even with swapping out 3 or 4 flavors in 1 day ) I am worried that I can find a few flavors that I will be able to vape consistently with out them changing on me months down the road.

I think this has way more to do with what we are expecting something to taste like, not what we are actually tasting. If you say to me here's apple pie and I am thinking, mmmmmmmmmmmm the pie companys apple pie........and I get too much pg and not enough cinnamon in that vape, and not enough apple/cinnamon/nutmeg in that vape than I would probably say...............yuck!. Now I don't go at foods like that or vapes for that matter, but that may be why some people say YUCK that tastes like chit....it may be because of experience of what something tastes like. The preconcieved taste that we all think of when someone says "Orange" and then the juice actually tastes like grapefruit,.....so it's about experience~~~I think~~~any commments on this.

 

[Neo]

I think expectations play a part perhaps.

Take cherry. I'm looking for a real cherry. Not cough syrup. Not a cherry jolly rancher. Not cherry pie. But you could get any of those three things and more.

But if you're open to it, you might like that cherry pie.

 

[pm2006]

I have found only one or two juices that I really like and I am bummed. I keep hanging on to some because they sound and smell really good but I don't like the taste. Maybe one day . . . .

 

[what the hell]

I guess I'm one of the lucky ones that likes most of the flavors I've tried. Some I like more then others. There were a couple that didn't taste good to me, but I've heard other people say that it's their favorite flavor.

 

[Poeia]

If something has one ingredient, people either like it or they don't (assuming it's not spoiled, etc.) I like raspberries, I dislike coconut. As soon as you add a second ingredient, the possibilities multiply. If everyone's taste buds were the same, there wouldn't be 14,267,918 recipes for meatloaf.

From the time I was in Junior High School until I was around 30, I lived on diet cola. I drank it by the gallon. I finally stopped. A few months later I decided to try a glass. It was like drinking something I'd thrown together in a test tube and carbonated. To this day I still find colas undrinkable yet they are one of the most popular beverages in the world. That doesn't mean the people who like it are wrong. They just have different taste buds than I do -- or, at least, they've trained theirs differently.

 

[Automaton]

What gets me is the sheer diversity of how we taste, particularly, it seems, with e-juice.

When I'm DIY'ing, I take whatever the recommended percent of flavor is for that flavor, and increase it by 5-10 percent. Most people would consider the DIY's that I make for myself to be WAY. TOO. STRONG.

But that's how I like it.

I know someone else who has to water down every single juice he buys by 50%, because they all taste too strong to him.

I know people who love Dekang tobacco, but to me, it tastes almost exactly like burnt atty (and yes, I'm quite sure that it WASN'T burnt atty).

Wyatt Earp tastes great to me. It makes someone else I know urp (bu-dum CHING). He says it literally tastes like rotten meat to him.

With e-juice, it's not just an issue of "an apple tastes like an apple, and some people like apples and some people don't."

The exact same flavors taste like totally different things to different people.

I taste carrots on the exhale when I vape Rocky Mountain clove. Figure that one out.

 

[VpnDrgn]

With e-juice, it's not just an issue of "an apple tastes like an apple, and some people like apples and some people don't."

The exact same flavors taste like totally different things to different people.

That's exactly the point I have been trying to make.

 

[btngchck]

YEAH! you read my mind! I'll not name names, but some vendors that ECF members treat like the holy grail, aint that good..

OMG!!! I'm so with you on that one. Sitting w/3 new juices that .....ugh!