Cookie
So the temptation was very high on this one, since I am still looking for a good cookie flavor/base. Unfortunately like so many others, this one did also not make the cut.
Tested it on different setups and different strengths (1-10% due to the higher recommendations above) as well as after 24hrs, 3 days, 7 days, 14 days and 21 days.
It smells unbelievably great when vaped, just like a freshly made cookie…but I wish it would taste like it smells
At 2% I get a sweet grainy sugary dough of some kind, not very distinctive.
At 2.5-4% I get a slight faint and mild dough note, sweet and very oily/buttery, with hints of almond extract.
At 4.5 - 6% There’s still no cookie, its a dough of some kind, grainy sugary texture with notes of almond extract and hazelnut as well as vanilla nuances, that are very noticeable and a bit heavy handed.
At 6.25% - 10% it kinda stays the same actually, the flavor doesn’t get much more potent from here, only thing that increases is the butter/oilyness.
Overall: If you make cookies/pastries/pies at home, and after you removed the dough from the cutting board, there’s this slight film/residue of butter/margarine, white sugar crystals and a bit of dough left. If you pick that up with your finger and eat it, that’s what I get. It’s not cookie or cookie dough, which would have been great, unfortunately at this point it could be any dough. Its very vanilla prominent and heavy on the butter, giving it a very oily/greasy texture.
I do like using the flavor but not for what it was intended, it’s great for the bottom or too fill out any other bakery/dough/cookie recipe, were it becomes the secondary profile. The almond & hazelnut note I was getting does stick around, but it’s very faint and could be easily mistaken for chocolate. I didn’t noticed actual chocolate, but I am also not sure if it was supposed to be a chocolate chip cookie, since it only says cookie.
Percentage Suggestion (subjective): SFT 4-6%, 2-3% in mixes, 0.75 - 1.8% as accent.