Yes yes yes, join me on my adventures of nicely flavoured E-juice and not Essence of X flavoured VG from the Less is more crowd that claim a good recipe is Delicate, balanced and shouldn’t be able to sit on a shelf… @Sprkslfly agreed with me once on my Opinion(s) on what makes a good recipe… A lot of my issues from buying over 100 dollars worth of oneshots from the In Crowd was that, I had to wait 2 weeks to taste most of it but needed to vape it under a certain amount of time before everything faded into nothingness.
A lot of my favourite recipes were on the higher percentage side, now I do understand that there’s certain strengths and concentrations/potencies of flavours. But every one I’ve mixed that teeters on the high side seem to have the longevity and if layered properly can be “Premium” or “Commercial” like a lot of new mixers like when they’re getting into it. It IS a common complaint from new DIYers that their juice isn’t strong enough or can’t taste this or that. The whole principle is to lower and that less is more and I don’t know why that is… A lot of recipes I’ve seen from companies that sold recipes all seemed to have one distinct thing is the note they wanted pushed forward was fairly high and from what I could see the supporting flavours would be around what would be considered Median Range.
I think it’s maybe because people like to mix how they mix and find subtle toots to make you “find” the notes you’re vaping as opposed to be presented them with 5 fingers curled into a fist to the mouth hole. I think this mixture of stature and maybe pack mentality is why people try to regurgitate what’s being taught by some well known mixers. It’s like thumping a bible of things that are tossed down by followers and I don’t think a lot of new people are allowed to find their own way(s). The whole concept of DIY is DO IT YOURSELF and when you have conflicting arguements about how it should be mixed doesn’t benefit anyone other than the person’s ego coercing the new person how to mix, no mention of “this is how I’d approach it” but more of, “Well, I find that if I and maybe that might work for you” or “Well, find out what you’d like to change, play with numbers, trial and error” because I don’t honestly think you can single flavour test things and be like, “Oh! That’ll mix well with this to create this” because it’s chemistry, if you’re new it’ll tell you characteristics but now how it’ll play with other flavours… There are things that come into play like, you need to know how to Layer often times and like a previous post things like the density or weight of flavours effect how others play, etc.
Edit: This wasn’t criticizing ELR or whatever, it’s an everywhere thing and I’ve just seen the trend time and time again and I feel it drives a lot of newer mixers away because if they think what they’re doing is wrong they get discouraged.
Recipes that come to mind are:
PB Cereal - Steeper, amazing
Ken’s Strawnana - Steeper, no strawberry but the Banana Cream and Custard really turn into something beautiful after a long sit. Probably could be toned down a bit but enjoyed.
There was a Blueberry Pastry recipe but I can’t find it, I remember posting it years ago… It had no ratings and was pretty high on the flavour side but when I’d make it I’d make a few 120mls at a time. This stuff tasted like a 30 dollar bottle of ejuice after a sit…
These are 2 really old recipes, but taste good in single coil RDAs at least…