Capella Grenadine

Setup: Recoil w/ flavor barrel, Dual 15 wrap 26g 3mm Nifethal 70 coils @.13 ohms. 60w power, 450F temp limit. Full Cotton Wicks.

Testing: CAP Grenadine, 2 and 4%, 60/40 VG/PG, Steeped 6 days.

Flavor Description: Nightmare cherry. There is some syrupy cheap grenadine sweetness in there, but the first thing you notice is a face full of those weird, harsh, gasoline or plastic off notes that are depressingly common from cherry flavors. Good grenadine is basically pomegranate syrup, and I can't really taste anything resembling pomegranates. Tastes more like bright red maraschino cherry syrup. No real tartness in here, more of a chalky artifical cherry candy sweetness. Personally I'd give it a pass, but if you are going to use it I'd keep it under 3% to limit some of those off-notes.

Inhale is sharp and bitter from those medicinal plastic off notes. There's a syrupy sweetness underneath, but it just drags the inhale to full on cough syrup. Medium density, but pretty harsh. Exhale has a whole lot of those off-notes right up. Cheap plastic off-gassing, gasoline, bitter florals. Some candy cherry sweetness comes out in the back end. Really light tartness that you'd expect from a decent grenadine, but a whole lot closer to a chalky cherry candy. There is some syrupy sweetness in there, but those off-notes come roaring back in on the tail end of the exhale, with a lingering bitter plastic taste. Medium density, but the throat hit is kind of hellacious.

Off-flavors: Really prominent bitter, floral gasoline and plastic.

Throat Hit: Harsh.

Uses & Pairings: Really, I don't think this is the best option for any mix. This doesn't taste a lot like pomegranate syrup, so I'd skip all of the realistic grenadine applications.

This is gnarly, even for lowered cherry standards. I wouldn't use it anywhere you wanted maraschino cherries either.

Notes: Concentration testing, this is less bad at lower percentages. At 1% I still get a helping of off notes, but they aren't particularly intense. Underlying sweet artificial cherry is pretty weak though. 2% is a little fuller. I'm still getting off flavors, but the sweetness is a little clearer. 3% has a decent-ish sweetness to it and the off-notes aren't that much worse than 2%. 4% has really intense off notes. 5% is pretty much unvapable with those off flavors getting extremely bitter.

FA Pomegranate isn't perfect but that and some sweetener would probably be my best bet on a grenadine that tasted like a pomegranate was involved at some point.

Second Opinions: Hey, some people don't hate this?

Here's the ELR Page. We got camps on here, people. User "Devils Advocate" calls it "Bitter, cherry, almond, the almond looking thing in a peach pit, citrus, spray paint." User "Quakas" has a review that (via Google Translate from Portuguese) reads like a tone poem of awfulness: "Strangely and after 2 versions know the bitter almond, here in the original packaging the grenadine continues to know the bitter almond, absolute disillusionment fails to take the test." On the other hand /u/MintyMods says "S&V - Taste a little medicinal, similar to pomegranate, would pair with fruits, absinthe, menthol, floral and obviously alcohol. Can't see it pairing with creams, bakery, nuts." /u/RinVapes is probably the most positive on the page with "authentic. can be used in place of maraschino cherry for some applications (drinks, candy, etc) Preferred single flavor mix: 0.5%" so maybe it's a concentration thing.

I don't know, people seem to dig this on ECX. 5 star average with 5 reviews.

/u/SecretVape asks for help on a recipe that tastes like burnt tires, culprit is the 9% Cap Grenadine. /u/BongleBear clarifies "I have had absolutely no luck at all with CAP Grenadine. I think it tastes terrible, even at very low percentages."

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Curses to /u/ID10-T for suggesting this.