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Does anyone know of any UK vendors that sell good tobacco flavours that actually taste the way fresh/cured tobacco smells? (As opposed to trying to imitate cigarettes and tasting like ashtray/smoke/stubbed-out-cig/wet-fag)

In particular, does anyone know whether Dekang tobacco flavours are of the ashtray variety? (I'm guessing yes, going by smell of the bottle?)

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Optional backstory:

This is actually my third go at vaping (returning to analogs in between). First time was around 2007ish, back when ecigs were just showing up, and I was in Germany at the time. Second time was just 2-3 years ago and I was in the States. Both times I stuck with it for a year or two but still smoked cigarettes every now and again, which was probably a mistake and the main reason I'd ultimately return to just cigarettes. This time I just dropped the stinkies outright, about 4 weeks ago.

I do know my way around vaping, devices and liquids in general very well, but I'm quite oblivious to the vaping market in the UK and still catching up on the newest developments in terms of gear.

I've also never used Dekang liquid before. But I ordered an MVP 2.0 from Myepack last week (brilliant device BTW, though I do miss being able to step down voltage directly instead of having to cycle around) and they also sell liquid at a decent price (my god, most vendors here are overpriced!) so I ordered 10ml each of VA Blend, King of Cigar and Blackberry. Blackberry smelled and vaped fine, though I've had much better Blackberry flavours.

But both VA Blend And KoC smelled the same and a bit nasty, just sniffing the bottle tip. It seemed like such a familiar smell too, but I couldn't quite place it... maybe it was just too faint since the bottle has a small needle tip opening? So I dripped a couple drops on a piece of paper towel, closed my eyes and took a good whiff, trying to figure out where I'd smelled this before. And then it hit me. ASHTRAY. It smells like ashtray! So I'm guessing that's what it would vape like too? (Don't really want to waste a coil if that's the case)

The thing is, I love "real" tobacco flavours. Ones that taste of tobacco, not of ashtray. That's why I ordered these two. In my past experiences with German and US eliquid markets, ashtray flavours were fairly rare and always very clearly labelled as being intentionally disgusting / for people who just need that cigarette smoke flavour. Anything labelled simply as Tobacco was either the oldschool, RY4-style nutty/caramelly flavour or, more recently, a flavour that tasted the way the first cigarette from a freshly opened pack smells if you run it under your nose and breathe in. Or the way a fresh bag of tobacco smells when you just open it and take a good whiff. I'm sure some of you still remember that smell... it's hard to forget. It's a delightfully intoxicating herbal odour and makes for a similarly pleasant all-day vape. At least for me, it's the only thing I can handle at length.

So that's what I'm looking for. But now I'm worried that ashtray flavours are the norm now and/or here in the UK and that any Tobacco liquid I order is likely to be like that. Hence this thread. I'm hoping it's just Dekang and not the norm or, at least, that normal tobacco flavour can be had somewhere.

I did also try some VividVapours Classic Tobacco and Golden Tobacco simply because a local shop sells it. Classic reminded me very strongly of the oldschool, RY4ish taste of most tobacco liquids circa 2007. Golden was much closer to what I was looking for, but didn't quite hit the spot. It's probably just not very good. And certainly very overpriced, being one of those mainstream-appeal brands.

Anyway, I'll stop here... this post is way too long already.

First two lines really sum up my questions as a TL;DR.