Perfumed taste - need some advice

[mart166]

Hi folks hope you can help me.

Just made my first DIY batch, and let them have a months steep, but I have a problem that all the juice has a "perfumed" taste to it, this is a problem I get with a lot of commercial juices as well, for every 10 samples i've tried about 9 will have that taste.

I know we all have different tastebuds, and the only thing I thought it could be is the glycerin, I mixed 70/30 pg/vg, but I do tend to water commercial juices down with 30-40% VG, could it be I do not like PG and thats where I get the taste from. I have added some ecigwiz mask to my current batch, it helps but they are still not nice enough to want to mix up a large bottle.

I only vape tobacco flavours if that has any bearing on it.

Hope you can understand this, if not use the idiot label and ignore me

Thanks in advance.

MP

[toots]

Yeah, I've got some that taste perfumery and it's not nice at all. Luckily I only made up a couple of ml of each as testers to start with, suffice to say I've not made any more up of those ones.

I don't use any PG in my juice, except of course for the PG that the concentrate comes in, so as mine are basically VG based it can't be to do with not liking PG or that the perfumery taste comes from the PG (unless of course it's the PG that the concentrate is in).

I dunno what the answer is to this one. Other peeps might not get a perfume taste from the same concentrate seeing as we all taste things differently. Maybe we just got a flowery type of mouth and easily pick up the scent

[Perpetua]

Try a VG heavy mix next time so you'll only have your flavours as the PG element mart166 . . . you might find that's enough to lose the taste you get from PG.

[ChillerVapes]

I knocked DIY on the head a while ago. My only perfume tasting juices have been cherry flavours... not sure what it is about cherry, hardly any vendor can get it right!

Sorry I can't be any help.

[marms]

If you left the juice to steep with the lid on it might help to let it sit for a few days with the lid off and the little dropper insert removed.

I've had a few juices with the perfume taste and letting them breath for a few days reduced it quite a lot.

[mart166]

Some good points raised, thanks everyone, got a few things to try, and got some new flavours on the way from F/A.


MP

[toots]

Jan 6, 2014 21:03:41 GMT marms said:

If you left the juice to steep with the lid on it might help to let it sit for a few days with the lid off and the little dropper insert removed.

I've had a few juices with the perfume taste and letting them breath for a few days reduced it quite a lot.

Cheers for the tip - I shall try that, see if my little 2ml samples benefit from it, they're still sitting there in my cupboard after several weeks

[kibbster]

Jan 6, 2014 17:53:01 GMT ChillerVapes said:

I knocked DIY on the head a while ago. My only perfume tasting juices have been cherry flavours... not sure what it is about cherry, hardly any vendor can get it right!

Sorry I can't be any help.

Agreed.
I haven't found a natural tasting cherry yet.

[apostle51]

Think i read somewhere that a perfumy, chemically taste can be caused with too much flavouring.

I just knocked up some vanilla custard using some ltecigs custard at 10% and inawera tahiti vanilla at 5%. Ltecigs recommend a 1% mix using tahiti vanilla, bugger it thought and added the 5%.

The resulting juice has a flowery tone to it. First time ive used tahiti vanilla so dont know for sure if its meant to or not then came across the too much flavour statement.
Ive just made more of the mix minus any tahiti vanilla and mixed it with the original 10ml ive made so effectively having 20 ml of 10% custard and 2.5% tahiti vanilla. Havent tried it yet but hoping it reduces the flowery tones.

[mart166]

I decided to bite the bullet and tip my first attempts into a bottle marked "juice for burning coils" lol. Think one of the problems may have been when starting out you try to make miserly amounts and it's to easy to get things wrong, 1 drip could make a disaster. So today I mixed again, 10ml batches, one of the original ones I tried and a new one, straight away the smell is much better, does not smell like war in a chemical factory. I've also decided to leave the lids off for a couple of days or until the other half complains. So now just the waiting game for it to steep.

MP