1/18 - It always struck me that there was something decidedly missing from all the clone attempts of Placid that I've tried, including my own. I thought the addition of Fuji Apple (FA) filled that gap, and it did, slightly, but not all the way. As I kept vaping the real Placid I thought I tasted a hint of banana. I had recently picked up Banana Cream (LA) to make fizzmustards Nana Cream clone and decided to experiment with adding Banana Cream.
At first no matter what percentage I tried it either completely overwhelmed the juice or you couldn't taste it at all. Finally I realized that in the Nana Cream clone I didn't exactly taste the dragonfruit, but wondered if it brought something out in the banana when paired with the strawberry in his recipe.
Lo and behold I tried a few variations of Banana Cream (LA) with Dragonfruit (TFA) and I believe this is even closer to the original Placid!
As a side note I'm not at all convinced that the limes are in the correct percentages, or even the right lime! I did tinker with them a bit and I believe this is closer but the only other lime I have is INW Lime, and every time I experiment with INW Lime it tends to wash over everything else. Tried using EM to no avail. I wonder if Lime Tahity Distilled (FA) might work?
One final note, my nic base is PG based and Adirondack themselves has revealed that they use VG based nic. I believe this is why any attempts to reproduce their juice tend to have a bit more of a throat hit, since no matter how much you try to max out the VG you will be adding extra in your nic. I made a noob mistake when I first started mixing a couple months ago in purchasing a large quantity of 36mg nic.
Anyway, those are my updated notes, please let me know what you think!