Not so easy to blend so many head notes together, but I love challenges.
When I first saw this recipe it was a no brainer, nuts? Coffee? MINE!
I was working on a pumpkin gingerbread fried donut dessert, but I ditched it for an even harder one, this one!
To my mind roasted pecans by WF if pushed high, already is a coffee, years ago I used this trick, RPC paired with a FA coffee low, before Mocca and decent coffees came out.
Now, to the recipe.
My thinking process was: The main note had to be Pecans and coffee the pumpkin has to be a filler, with pie notes underneath, it has to be full and complex, with 5 flavours? No chance! But hey, this my game!
As I said, Roasted Pecans and cream paired with one of the best espresso coffee around (IMHO)I I know that is usually paired with VTA coffee liqueur or Arabica, but it holds very well on its own, so far so good, fairly easy. A strong and creamy head note.
Pumpkin... my original idea was to use FLV Yam, but it's not available on BCF so I went for enhancing the spice notes and instead of Yam I used FLV Pumpkin Spice giving us even more of that holiday spice feeling I had in mind.
The hard part was the pie, didn't do a cake coz the head notes would have killed any angel, pound cake based flavour, even FLV pound, maybe FLV Starch base would hold its own, but it pushes it too much on the dark side even if it would have paired well.
I needed to brighten things up a bit, so I went for WF Flapper pie, the meringue adds even more thickness to the pumpkin, as well with some vanilla notes, it needs pushing high but, it works ( or so I thought)
I knew the pie base is nearly non existent in FP but I still had a flavour to add and this one was not easy, started thinking about winter and Christmas.
My options: Gingerbread? that would add some base to FP, but.. it's a biscuit base good for a cheesecake, add Holiday Spice? Too much nutmeg, and I've got Pumpkin spice already doing that, So for the pastry I doubled the Pecans note with Butter Pecan Pie so I stay true to the name of the recipe, it's a good pastry, even if it takes a bit to come out, and also boosts the Flapper Pie... or does it?
And now what really happened , how my mixing brain already knows things that I don't.
Did it work?
Of course not!
I guess the Flapper Pie/Pecans/ pastry put together have too many common compounds between them, this might have caused an overload and muted the recipe. So I took it off, and put FLV Eggnog to bridge them all, so that it complements Pumpkin spice, and it's the pumpkin creamy "filler" for the pie.
Sweetener, clearly no sucralose or citric would have worked in this and I needed a touch (just a touch) for the sweet tooth, So I used FLV Sweetness.
At the end it's a bit of an old styler, cozy warm vape, complex and tasty and this time doesn't mute.
Colour is a bit dark coz of Mocca coffee, don't be scared.
Tested on a Profile Unity 0,25 Ohm @40W and an MTL Precisio GT with a clapton coil at 0,55 Ohm, 30 W. Base 60Vg/40PG.
Thank you for your patience in testing this mix and for making a great contest, I enjoyed the challenge!