The Birth of Tardy Cherry: A Chewy Cherry Spree

When I set out to mix this profile, I wanted a standalone cherry juice that didn't mess around—something thick, upfront, and aggressively sweet. I started by locking in Sobucky Super Aromas (SSA) Juicy Cherries at a full 4% is where this hits, the lower Average mixing quantity: 2.2% (Median: 1.5%) amount was recommended by the community but you can definitely take this to 4% to push the flavor ceiling right to the edge, and yes the community can be wrong with flavor ratios as well KEEP THAT IN MIND, backing it up with Purilum Super Sweet to lay down a heavy commercial sugar baseline.

But out of the gate, it wasn't hitting quite right. The cherry was there, but it lacked that sharp, punchy attitude. It needed a bite.

To fix it, I threw down an exact 1.0% add-on of TFA Sweet and Tart (12 drops) to inject a sour candy crunch, and spiked it with a tiny 0.25% dose of ultra-concentrated Flavorah Sweetness (3 drops) to lock in a granulated sugar finish alone with Candy stick to give that centered effect of the candy.

The result? Absolute magic. The recipe completely transformed away from a basic fruit liquid into a dead-on Chewy Cherry Spree. You get that distinct, bold, artificial cherry core wrapped up in a sharp, chalky candy shell that melts into a deep, heavy, mouth-watering chew on the exhale.

It’s an aggressive, mouth-puckering slap of sour candy chaos balanced out by a killer dose of sweetness, mixed at 65VG for pod systems.. It’s sweet, it’s sour, and it completely dominates the tank.

A 2 day steep made this perfect.