This is my 4th version of this mix and IMO the best one to date. When I started on this I wanted a straight up watermelon candy with some bright accents and body to it. Looking at my stash I wanted to put the INW dragonfruit to use and figured its slightly citrusy flavor would work with watermelon. I kind of lucked into the opening ratio of sour watermelon/watermelon candy/dragonfruit and took it from there.

First iteration included FLV berry blend cause I love that stuff but it wasnt pushing the way I wanted in my mix. Second version used WF strawberry gummy candy @ 2% and was pretty decent. Nice all around flavor but I wanted something else in there. 3rd try took out the gummy candy and subbed in the strawberry taffy also at 2% and we were in business. This was the kinda candy "weight" I was looking for. To be fair I never sft'd the taffy but once it was introduced I felt like it was really bringing everything together.

I was really reaching on how to put the final touch on this because while good it was coming up just short. Looking through my flavors and notes I was kind of at a loss at which direction to go. Almost went with a blueberry or raspberry but I was thinking it would jumble everything together as I was trying to keep the flavors somewhat linear. It was like one of those hidden in plain sight moments- I absolutely love shisha strawberry and it carries a candyish/gummy edge. Not wanting to overpower anything I used this one low and got that faint final note I was looking for.