So I love Maraschino Cherries. With that being said, I decided try my hand at making some juices with Cherry flavors. I have used INW Cherries for a while. Use it all the time. Decided to take a chance and try RF SC Cherry and FW Cherry Crush. Got my order from Bullcity today, opened up the Cherry Crush just to give it a smell and the damn fragrance stuck in my nose for ten minutes before it went away! I don’t know what chemicals are in said concentrate but holy crap! Never have had that happen before.
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The Wild Cherry (RF)(SC) was another that flooded the house with the very intense smell of it to the point my wife was screaming and I had both front and back doors open and the fans all on trying to lessen the impact.
Not near as strong now but holy hell that first cracking of the bottle was overpowering.
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Wild Cherry got cut out of the order at the last second. I may have to get it now just to see my wife’s reaction when I have her open it. Thanks for the idea.
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I just used RF SC flavors the other day for the first time, and yes they have a very powerful aroma.
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FW Cherry crush varies, for me. Sometimes it’s a great cherry flavor, sometimes it has a hint of medicinal smell.
I do have the RF SC Wild Cherry, maybe I need to break it out and mix with it, more.
What percentages is everyone using these at?
I can get away with as low as 1% with crush up to 3%, depending on what else Is in the mix. The RF SC… ehhh, the whole line is still a mystery to me since I stopped working with them as much.
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I’m kind of experimenting with Crush and RF Cherry right now. Currently have them mixed together at a 2:1 ratio.
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2- crush: 1- RF SC? What %’s are you using?
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TPA Maraschino Cherry is exactly the juice from the real jar, spot on. But holy hangnails it is Strong with a capital S. Like, 1% is a lot.
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Sorry. Right now I have simple mixes of Cherry Crush and Cherry RFSC @ 2%/1% and 2.5/1.5. I also have one Cherry Crush/Cherry/Cherries INW @ 2/1/1. Just trying some different combos to see how these work together.
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I was going to pick that one up too but it had a lot of bad reviews. I may pick it up if you’re having success with it. You’re keeping it under 1%?
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I can see the negative reviews because it is viciously strong, but in very small % it works for me. Wife likes it as a single flavor mix even.
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This flavour tastes like cardboard with a very faint undertone of cherry. Not sure what went wrong.
Mix: 1ml TFA sweetener/3ml FW cherry crush/30ml of 1:1PG-VG @20mg/ml.
Increased flavour thinking it just wasnt enough but its just the same cardboard flavour but stronger.
Any pointers?
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I’ve tried the FW Cherry Crush at 1.5% and 2.5% stand-alone. Both felt like there just wasn’t enough cherry there, but they also felt like there was too much flavouring in there. If you know what I mean? Very dry and vaguely chemical and medicinal tones, but just like the cherry it feels like there’s no distinct flavour you can pin down.
I tried a simple mix with some TPA blueberry extra and blueberry wild. I think the cherry was at 1.5% and again it just made the mix feel dry on my throat and left a teasing hint of cherry with a slight plastic kind of aftertaste.
I want to work more with this flavour but I think I need more experience so it’s on the back burner rn.
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Hello @Jebly. Welcome to the forum. I need to put this into the calculator to see what the percentages look like. My air math isn’t terrible, but want to confirm.
What device are you using?!
Do this look correct?
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not correct its 30 ml total, so 10% cherry crush.
which seems pretty high. i would test at 4% or even lower
cherry crush works well for some, and not so well for others
it was for terrible for me but it tastes ok in a can of sprite
there are much better cherry flavors from SSA and INW
in my opinion.
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I think this is what he means.
Click on below link to view amounts.
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Hey All,
Thanks for the responses.
Sorry that was probably a bit unclear.
The PV+VG is in a pre-mixed and nic’d bottle at 50/50 PG/VG and with 20ml/ml strength nic.
So recipe was: 1ml sweetener, 3ml flavour and ~26ml of the PG/VG/Nic mix.
I really liked the CAP Tart (as in sour) Cherry, but would also like a non-tart cherry flavour.
Feeling like maybe the Cherry Crush just isn’t for me.
Where abouts can I find the SSA and INW ones? I’ve only shopped on Universal Flavours so far (pretty new to mixing my own flavours)
Thanks!
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Thanks so much!