What are your hobbies and/or what hobbies would you like to get into besides ejuice recipes?
As I (and my kids) get older, I find myself having more time and resources on my hands. I also work as a drug counselor from home and I get a lot of downtime so I’ve developed quite a few new hobbies and interests. I’ll share a couple…
One of my hobbies has been growing exotic, extremely hot, and rare hot peppers. I grow them from seed starting in February and get them out into mini greenhouses around late May to early June, depending on the weather. I also breed new species of peppers and share them with pepper lovers online.
Another one is cologne making. I know a “homemade” cologne sounds cheap, but if done right they can be extremely high quality. I’ve always collected nice colognes and the cologne distributor I buy from (ScentBird) has a lot of great information on what kind of scents are used for each cologne. Some of these profiles include leather, bergamot, anise, musk, jasmine, and so on… The scents they use are EXTREMELY concentrated.
On The Perfumer’s Apprentice (TPA) website you will notice that they not only produce flavors but they produce the ingredients for perfume/cologne making. You can even buy beginners kits.
I like unique and spicy colognes like Burberry brand and Gisada brand colognes so I’ve been trying to make some using their scent profiles (such as peppercorns, cedarwood, and apricot).
One hobby that I’ve been interested in getting into would be creating my own flavor concentrates to use in vape juice. This requires gaining the knowledge on the chemical compounds, mainly esters as well as artificial flavors to make up the flavor/scent profiles needed. Finding suppliers on esters is not easy but definitely not impossible.
I’ve been wondering “what makes up the classic bubblegum flavor?” If you may have noticed, I’ve been posting a lot of vape juice recipes lately and I have been posting some of my best bubblegum recipes using a variety of different bubblegum flavors. My favorite so far is my “Banana Bubblegum” recipe because the banana goes great with the bubblegum flavor. I just love bubblegum flavored e-juice, and I try to buy every flavor made. I recently did some research on what flavors are in plain bubblegum and was quite surprised. They are mainly esters from a combination of fruits such as banana, strawberry, pineapple, and berries. For example, some of the esters used are: Amyl acetate which provides sweet banana notes, Isoamyl butyrate which provides a pineapple flavor, Ethyl butyrate which provides a sweet, juicy pineapple essence, and Methyl anthranilate which has a grape-like aroma.
So I will do some more research and possibly get back to you guys if you’re interested.
So what about yourselves? What hobbies have you been into or which ones would you like to try? I’m curious and always looking for new ones.
Get it girl!
only 1 C a day though. Thanks for sharing the photos!! 
