Hi everyone. i haven’t posted outside of the Real Flavors thread in ELR until now, so this is a bit weird for me. Also, this is almost certainly redundant information for most people here. But in case anyone newer finds it useful, i wanted to share about my first order experience from Bull City Flavors!
Placed the order at 9:37am on Friday December 2nd, 2016 and it was already shipped by 12:12pm. Less than 3 hours…nice! Only took one week to get here to Toronto, ON in Canada even with the cheapest USPS shipping. They even went to pains to make sure my requested ‘no signature required’ was very clear, haha.
The flavours arrived well-secured in numerous ziploc bags on a thick bed of lovely packing peanuts. They were beautifully packaged too…much nicer than i’d expected. Btw in case the pic below looks weird, it’s just because i opened the box upside down.
i bought the following. From Capella: Butter Cream (30 mL), Cereal 27 (13 mL), Cranberry (13 mL), Pink Lemonade (13 mL), Sweet Tangerine (13 mL), Vanilla Bean Ice Cream (30 mL), Vanilla Whipped Cream (30 mL) and the new Yellow Cake (30 mL).
From Flavour Art: Lime Tahity (Cold Pressed) and Lime (Distilled) (both 30 mL).
From TPA: Red Licorice, Swedish Gummy and Whipped Cream (all 30 mL). And lastly the one i really wanted, have enjoyed very much and will order again: Flavorah’s Cranberry (original bottle, 15 mL).
14 flavours and a grand total of 337 mL of flavouring!
i was particularly impressed with the Flavorah one (as a flavour, and its packaging too). It came inside a heat-sealed bag that needed scissors to open (an excellent way to avoid spills and/or tampering)…and the bottle’s cap itself has a thick plastic snap-ring you need to break before the first use. And Bull City put all that into a second bag!
Btw, speaking of this one: it had been out of stock. But i need Cranberry for Christmas! So i emailed Bull City asking if they expected some in time for that. They responded bright and early the very next morning: “We just got a couple of them in late yesterday and I am getting ready to put them up online in the next few minutes.” Yaaay! Excellent customer service.
Now i’ve heard that some of the Flavorah stuff is not…great (though of course taste is so subjective)…and some of theirs are inexplicably not vape-safe either (their Watermelon has 90 ppm of diacetyl…yes, Watermelon. What ). But they’re up-front about it, which is what counts. If this one is any indication…when they do a flavour well, they do it really well! As far as i’m concerned their Cranberry is the only one i’ll ever need.
So all in all i’m very impressed with Bull City Flavors and highly recommend them. That’s bullcityflavors.com in case someone needs the url. i don’t know why they don’t carry Real Flavors yet…i assume they will in due course. But in light of the quote below, i advise getting your RF goodies direct from Walt in any case.
And now to round off the post, two more pictures because…because.
TONS of snow since those pics were taken …hope you’re bundled up safe and warm at home! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone.