So, I have only used these recipes for an oak barrel experiment using oak spiral aging sticks to replicate the barrel aged version of the original VCT. V1 was really good, but the tobacco flavor was a bit more than it needed to be and the toasted almond just wasn't enough. V2 is awesomely close to the original, but is bolder on all notes, which is what I was going for. To be really close to the original I would say drop a 1/3 off each ingredient( Vanilla Swirl from 1% to .66% and so on).