Flavorah Avocado
ConcreteRiver
Disclaimer: I didn't pay for this, shoutout to Flavorah for sending this to me.
Setup: Recoil w/ flavor barrel, Dual 12 wrap 24g 3.5mm SS316 @.31 ohms. 60w power, 450F temp limit. Full Cotton Wicks.
Testing: Flavorah Avocado, .25%, 1% and 3%, 60/40 VG/PG base, Steeped 14 days.
Flavor Description: Underripe, slightly fruity avocado with a thicker base.
The avocado here is actually fairly prominent, especially at higher percentages. It feels a bit artificially bright, and comes across as underripe. A bit fruitier than a deeper, heavier ripe avocado flavor. Light hints of something like a green banana, again like an underripe avocado. I’d also peg it as something like green banana sweetness, not overwhelming, and almost a bit starchy as opposed to a fuller fruit or candy sweetness. Nothing too earthy or funky here but a very light nuttiness. Most of that avocado is in working in the top notes, almost like a floral would. The top notes specifically can get a bit dry, which is odd against the thicker base.
Relatively thick, smooth body to this. Creamy without any discernible dairy notes. Base tastes fairly neutral overall, although it does have just a bit of buttery fattiness. The bulk of the actual avocado flavor mostly seems to sit on top of that heavier base. Doesn’t quite cohere and really bleed into the thickness here. Tastes like an avocado top note on top of a thicker base, as opposed to a creamy avocado. The inhale feels fairly cohesive, but the exhale has that avocado separating out and leaving the middle of the flavor feeling a bit light. I wouldn’t think it would be a major issue in a mix where there are other flavors but it’s a bit odd solo.
Believe it or not, I haven’t had a ton of avocado flavors. I feel like FE Avocado has a good deal of dulche de leche style caramel to it and just a tiny bit of vague green weirdness. Sort of like an RY4 effect, but with green instead of tobacco. I need to do a lot more testing with it, but from some very preliminary messing around, Vape Train avocado seems to have a pretty prominent banana note which makes the whole experience kind of confusing. This tastes a lot closer to an actual avocado to me without most of that banana or caramel baggage.
Off-Flavors: Underripe and a bit fruity, but pretty low key. Nothing too vegetal, funky, or swampy here.
Throat Hit: Light. Fairly smooth but the top notes of the flavor can get a bit throaty.
Percentage testing: At .25%, this feels a bit dry to me. I’m getting a light avocado but that thicker base isn’t really coming through for me. Avocado seems kind of one note here.
At 1%, this feels a bit more solid. Avocado is maybe a bright, but the base seems fuller overall. Doesn’t quite taste rich to me so much as kind of heavy.
At 3%, that avocado is getting pretty bright and maybe picking up some of that fruitier banana. Base seems richer though, and I’m actually getting a bit of fat to it. I mean, for 3% of a FLV Avocado flavor, the lack of grievous off-notes is pretty cool.
Just based on these tests, this has a relatively wide workable range. I mean, you could go safe and use this around .5% for an avocado accent in something… but that seems safe. I’d probably be mixing closer to 2%.
Uses & Pairings: Uhhhhhhh…… maybe throw it an ice cream? Some additional cream and richness is going to smooth out that top note a bit more and should be be pretty good? Just use TPA VBIC and you could have a black pepper and avocado ice cream, which is a thing exists. If you wanted to really blow out the heavier parts of the base, add some FLV Coconut.
With said, that I think the green part of this isn’t going to magically disappear in mixes, and will still stick out so it might not be some silver bullet for adding thickness if you don’t want the mix to kind of taste like avocado… but I’ve had run-ins with vegan avocado frosting so you may not have my own personal scars related to tasting avocado where it shouldn’t be.
Not crazy savory, but I can’t think of a fruit that would really pair well except for lime but I really like guacamole.
Or hey, when it doubt, claim it could be used in a tobacco. Would probably work well to add some thickness to a tobacco without making the entire thing seem wet and would play well with the savory notes there.