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Posted byu/Botboy141
WTF is a "Terpene?"
5 years ago
Vicious Vanilla - Happy New Year Everyone!
Recipe

In honor of celebrating the arrival of 2016, I am happy to finally be releasing my recipe for "Vicious Vanilla".

As many have requested this over the past several months, I feel it's only right to start 2016 off right with the release of this recipe.

History: This recipe began as a quest to discover a vanilla cream base that would work well in a variety of circumstances. After testing this base on it's ~12th variation as a standalone, I realized that it had a ton of merit to stand on it's own. You can find some other development notes from when I first discussed this about 18 months ago here.

Vicious Vanilla
3.5% CAP Vanilla Custard V1 (my preference over V2 although V2 is excellent as well after a ~30 day steep IMPO)
2.25% TFA Vanilla Swirl
1.5% FA Vienna Cream
1.5% TFA Bavarian Cream
1.5% FA Catalan Cream
1% FA Vanilla Classic
0.25% CAP Cinnamon Danish Swirl

Steep and Use: Allow at least a 1 week period to steep/age/homogenize/whateverthefuckyouwanttocallit. If you use Vanilla Custard V2, allow 30 days. This recipe really is best IME after 30 days, gets better at 90 days, and is truly a gem after 6 months but good luck waiting that long. Goes excellently with your morning coffee, or if you prefer a more subtle, ADV that isn't super sweet and isn't fruity, it may work for you there as well. I will admit that I had a recipe similar to this when I first got into DIY and it was the first ever non-fruity mix that became an ADV for me.

Development: I began making slight adjustments to boost it's own profile without injecting any fruit flavors into it (which had been my original intention). After trying a variety of spices, cinnamon, other more flavorful back notes (TFA Pie Crust, Graham Cracker, CAP GC, etc) this is where I eventually settled.

The addition of Catalan Cream and CDS really set this recipe over the top for me as differentiating it from a straight vanilla vape without masking the vanilla with too much other flavor. I didn't want the cinnamon and Mediterranean spices to overtake the subtle vanilla profile. I also wanted to ensure that this recipe could survive as an ADV without the accumulation of vapers tongue.

Feel free to boost total flavor percentage up to as high as 12.5% without vapers tongue (add 10% to each of the above).

Happy New Years Everyone and have a prosperous 2016.

Edit: 1/3/16 - I forgot to mention one potential substitute for those interested. If you want it a bit sweeter, try substituting TFA Vanillin at the same percentage for the FA Vanilla Classic.

Thanks out to @Zazie on ECF for catching my typo.
https://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/members/zazie.338763/