I hate getting ahead of myself here, but I’ve come across some interesting discoveries. I extracted a cigar of mine a while back, a “Fleur De La Reine” in PGA. Took an 8oz mason jar to fit the whole thing, around 200ml PGA. 1 week cold soak followed by 12 hour hot extraction. Evaporated to 50ml, and dry ice freeze filtered, followed by a final evaporation down to 30ml.
When I tried an e-liquid at 10% extract about a month on the shelf, it was weak and unimpressive. But after about 2 months, I tried it again for the heck of it; the flavor was very complex, a little skunky in a good way, if any cigar smokers know what I mean. Still just a touch too weak, but very promising.
The real kicker is that I’ve vaped two full tanks of it on a KF Prime, on my third tank, using the same wick and coil. Chain vaped at times. The wick and coil look new for all intents and purposes. I’m going to keep refilling until it’s burnt. This is 90% VG, mind you.
I’ve been trying lower wattage, and that seems to help. I’m around 10-11 watts. To be honest, I can’t remember the build, I’m pretty sure it’s kanthal. Maybe 28 gauge. Comes in around 1.2 ohms.
I’m going to evaporate my PGA extract down to 20ml or so. It’s pretty outrageous starting with 200 or so ml and evaporating down that far, but for the flavor, it’s worth it to me.
The only thing it’s missing is that ash tray in your mouth kind of feel, which I find myself surprisingly missing. The Vodoo Queen accomplishes that well. I think it’s the Latakia. I’m going to add just a touch of Latakia as a little ‘seasoning’ to my next e-liquid batch of Fleur De La Reine.
Time allowing, i will try some more cigar extracts. I think I will try to go more robust, edgy.