This stuff is insanely delicious, perfectly balancing fruity sweetness with rich, complex tobacco & a nuanced cream.
Recipe can also be made without accent notes, though you lose a lot that way. Remove Milk & Honey (or) Cream, and double the remaining flavoring to 1.5%. Drop Caramel or Butterscotch the same way, and bump the remaining one to 0.75%. Virginia Tobacco can be removed if you increase Cured Tobacco to 2.5%. Coconut & Peach can be tossed entirely, but it helps to increase Cantaloupe to 3.5% without the supporting notes. I'll post a final simplified version after I test it out, but it'd basically look like this:
A common technique I use to create a recipe is developing a base (3-5 main flavors that comprise that majority of the flavor in the mix), and balance them first. Once I've got that down, I make a list of all the possible accent flavors to add complexity & nuance, and I try to pair them up. I usually pick one accent flavor for each 'foundation flavor' I started with, so the mix stays relatively balanced as I add on the tweaks. Since this process works so well, it's equally effective in reverse if you need to pare down a recipe to it's basics & rebuild it with flavors you have on hand.
This is delicious as a shake n' vape. I'd bet that it just improves with age, even if the tobacco dies down a bit. I didn't have the optional oakwood, but even so it's really awesome! Super big props.
I was really surprised by how much I liked this. I used the oak wood at 0.3% and it was perfect. The only thing I think I may do differently next time is drop the cantaloupe by a hair. It got to be a tad too much for me, but I'm sure that's a personal thing. I'm not huge into the melons. ;) Bravo and thanks so much for sharing!!