v.1 - Did a heat bath with intermittent shaking. Cooled down. Flavors meld together, banana seems mostly prominent, but exhale tastes a bit like a "toasted" banana (not negative, just not what I was aiming for.)
Considering upping raspberry flavors or dropping banana down to .75%. Will try both.
v.2 - Raspberry and BRCC notes are still almost indistinguishable through the banana. The banana still is overpowering the entire mix even at 1.5%, and the exhale still has a strange "toasted" almost chocolatey flavor to it. Going to bring the banana down to .75% and consider upping the raspberry/BRCC if that doesn't help.
Yeah the banana ripe is a little tricky to use for me too. Was going for a bluenana flavor. Did 2% first time and 1.5% second. V1 had mostly banana on exhale and after taste. V2 didn't really have a noticeable taste of banana at all. Maybe because I got to used to the overpowering one and trying v2 too soon. I put bluenana on hold for awhile.
I came to realize that ripe banana is basically only worthwhile when used to bring out another banana flavor. Unfortunately, I don't have any other bananas and I too had no luck with using RB by itself. I either got "no noticeable flavor" or "this is banana juice" hahah. I too put the whole thing on hold.