In general, how many different flavor manufacturers do you use?

I understand… I don’t enter into a lot of contests, myself… as the suspense, and knowing a lot of folks do enter to either use for themselves, pif, or resell… I don’t don’t have the time… but I like knowing my contests do help others out… :wink: it is super nice of them to let me do them… and for them to have faith I run the contests fair and square… I also have my vape sister from another mother haha!! @TamVapes to help me close them out… I hope she has just as much fun… I know she does… :slight_smile:

eh there will be other polls and people that are truly just curious about what all we use, how we use our flavors and why we do the things we do :slight_smile: :stuck_out_tongue: if not… then create it yourself… it’s always fun!

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on the side tho… I can promise TFA and CAP and even IWA, plus others, depending on where and how you view others that sell flavors… won’t disclose who or where their products come from… :wink: not many resellers will… nor is there really any need…

if you sit back and actually taste the flavors you work with… it really is not hard to figure things out.

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It’s not related, but since I have been vaping and especially DIY mixing, I immediately notice when a processed food item contains a flavor I know from vaping. Hazelnut coffee creamer now tastes like a powdered vape juice to me, and I recognize the strawberry in the strawberry cream filled snack cakes too. In some ways it’s sad having the curtain pulled back on things like that, but it tends to show that many artificial flavors we have every day kind of all share common DNA.

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And that… right there…

is what keeps me mixing… haha!! flavor discovery, be it food or drink, smells or tastes… yeah… I have been doing this for 10 yrs… and the most common question I get… is why keep vaping… Im off smokes… etc… it’s for the flavor discovery… it just keeps me happy… :slight_smile: <3

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Thanks! :slight_smile: I’m not seeing any video at all on the about us page oddly enough. Not that it matters, as I appreciate the find regardless!

You’re blurring the subject matter, and it appears intentionally. Flavorah has NOT been around for 150 years. Mother Murphy’s has.

“why not show love where it is earned?”
But you’ve never been showing MM’s the love (directly). You show it to FLV.

Why do you get pushback sometimes?
Because of the fact that you CONSTANTLY suggest Flavorah where it hasn’t been mentioned (which would be fine, if it wasn’t so frequent), and doubly as “offensive” when it invades a thread with nothing to do with it.

It’s also the fact that you try and present yourself to this community as ‘just another mixer’ (frequently waving the “I just mix with what I love” shield, and other times hiding behind the “I’m under contract” clause). When in reality you work in the industry. DIRECTLY tied to the vaping flavors industry.

Though it’s interesting that you manage to ‘break the silence’, when it suits you.
I don’t think any of us would have known who MM’s provides for had you not dropped specific names. And it’s only in trying to verify that, that I ran across the GlassDoor and LinkedIn information that I did.
But again, such information seems to affirm the fact that you have access to information that someone who is not directly involved would not have. And again here:

The problem is, you miss the point!
We appreciate getting these inside nuggets of information. We appreciate the fact that you have a helping hand in getting quality flavors to our market. We appreciate the fact that you want us as DIY mixers to have a better understanding of how to approach dealing with FLV (not only in percentages, but in combinations). We appreciate YOU in the largest sense!

What I don’t appreciate, is being hit over the head with it every other time you turn a corner at ELR. You’re like that aunt you dearly love, but drives you crazy because of idiosyncratic tendencies. lol

If you would just accept (and embrace) the fact that you’re so far BEYOND a DIY mixer, that you should be wearing a vendor badge (since you are an industry professional, as well as now actively trying to market your one-shots/short-fills/or however you choose to market them…)

…you’d see that you would still be accepted, respected, and again, very much appreciated!

But when you appear to repeatedly try and obscure the details of your involvement (and status in the industry), it leaves a bad taste for those of us who understand much of the situation (though still not all, obviously). And new folks are confused AF by all of this “brewhaha” over someone who appears to be (to them) “just another mixer” (which you most certainly are not).

I don’t think you’re a shill. I do think you’re extremely proud of not only the companies you interact with (and work with) and WITH GOOD REASON. As you not only have a hand in some of those things, but when the companies you’re involved with are bringing quality product, with care and attention to the material components that make up these flavors, it’s doubly rewarding for you. Easy to understand why you sometimes get overzealous.

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Sparky… yo… you are still trying to kill me off… the passive aggressive bits yeah… man… Im not even making enough for a living… wth is 25.00usd a month? a tank of gas…

You keep bringing it up… I keep telling you… I am not employed by anyone… at all…

Do I have experience? Yes, even in nets… imagine that! :smiley:

but until I have an income of a vendor, I am not a vendor. I am not even talking about my work. It pays less than flipping burgers and sliding onion rings… but I do support myself… is it your issue to know if I work in “the industry” or? ya wana pick up some of my bills? I could use a break on my car insurance or light bill.

I do have some things in the works… but I have no badge, I have no real income… Im still…

just a diy mixer with access to a few things most do not…

Yes I can admit it… if you can stop with all this. :slight_smile:

Happy now dear? It’s thursday… just about Friday and I would love for us all to have a better weekend than this thread here… can we do just that?

Im not even going to read your whole post… I can’t… I have to put on my mom hat and so grab my kid from his job…

big hugs… cheer up… who really cares if I have experience or… be happy I do try to help out and I hope my advise is just that… take it or leave it… :slight_smile:

edit:
if it will keep you and you alone happy… will just stick to posting my recipes in “that company”'s thread and leave the rest of the site to you. that way I do not upset you and since it means so much to you. Tired of getting beat up because I have been mixing for so long… it’s called experience for a reason.

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Well that explains things a bit I think.

Hmmm, now THAT would be a good challenge/idea.

Well, that happened to me, increased my FLV stash.

Hmmmmm, …I’m afraid, I don’t know if I can LOL.

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Man, can you really get a tank of gas for 25 usd? That’s crazy :slight_smile:

The rest should be obvious for anyone who’s read you for a bit. But it is good you are able to put it out in the open.

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I have a stock 1994 acrua intergra… with a sun roof and a kick butt stereo… :wink: I thump going down the street while blowing clouds. haha! :crazy_face:

It’s actually 30.00 to fill up from empty, but I can’t stand it low at a 1/4 tank. I like knowing I have gas and can go. Think I put in about 1800.00 of work on it last year and holding my breath it won’t fall apart this winter. Being a single mom is hard… but I manage. I work hard for what vendor pay I get, and I can’t cry to anyone. I choose my job, or well… it chose me.

I mix well and enjoy some of the best juice… I pif a lot of juice to those I know in need, when I am able. The 25.00 a mo comes from my affiliate link, on average. Every little bit I get always has some sort of purpose, and grateful I can just keep going. Maybe I should enlist @authormichellehughes to help write a book on the path that was built for me… I doubt it would be a top #1 but it would hit the best seller list. Maybe even the NY Times… but I doubt it. I could be wrong but… :stuck_out_tongue:

Now back to my threads I need to stay in… I actually have work tonight I need to finish up.

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The joke was more that at 1.80usd a liter, like it is around here, for 25 usd you can fill up a large moped.

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I know gas is very expensive in the EU…
I also know there are a lot more transit options there… not sure about the UK or other places :wink: but Im curious too!

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@anon84779643 wants to be an individual with just one company haha jk

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Typically 2 (CAP and TFA), but have 2 others in recipes. I’ve also single flavor tested 4 flavors from 2 other manufacturers but never used those in a recipe.

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Well… With 53 voters… Who would’ve thought that the gap between 3rd, 4th, and 5th places would be so miniscule?!!

3rd FLV (83%)
4th TFA (81%)
5th Ina (79%)

C’mon voters!! Keep it going! :smiley:

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I agree @Sprkslfly VOTE, vote, vote !!!

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Great Poll :+1:

I only use FA for main mixing but do have one old bottle of graham cracker that I bought early on & don’t use now. I also have AP and WS23.

When I started mixing I found HIC’s info & all the talk of low percent hooked me & the DAAP free idea, and I was happy with my mixes and still am.

I also got caught out a bit with $/mls and purchased 30mls early on & the thought of running out of a flavour concerned me.

I didn’t realise that there were so many companies before I was directed to ELR.
I have thought about trying other brands but I like to KISS!

I have only recently bought AP & Ws23 and in the beginning stages of experimenting with them, oh, and my first DAAP flavour Premium Custard!

Overall I am happy with FA, only one flavour so far, that doesn’t work for me is FA Pineapple - onions!

I do feel that using one flavour is limiting to discussions here but not to my mixing.
There are tons of recipes and I just sub FA for other brands.

I’m not too fussy with my flavours/mixes - if it’s vapable either hubby or I will vape it - still better than the taste of smokes! :rofl:

Sorry this is so long.

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OOO VC Cheesecake is pretty close, and is good after 3 days rather than 3 weeks. It’s a really nice flavour, it’s not a cheesecake, it’s a CCI

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I’m enjoying flavorah pineapple

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I just filled up for $22 today… one thing I love about Alabama LOL I’d love to write a book but I only do fiction. Even turned down a great deal from a Poker Star … me and realism don’t mix :innocent:

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The biggest surprise in all this, for me at least, is that not more people mix with RF.
I also expected TPA to be higher at the top somehow…

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