Flavorah Cool Menthol
ConcreteRiver
Setup: Recoil w/ flavor barrel, Dual 15 wrap 26g 3mm Nifethal 70 coils @.17 ohms. 60w power, 450F temp limit. Full Cotton Wicks.
Testing: FLV Cool Menthol @ Various, 60/40 VG/PG, Steeped 5 days.
Flavor Description: It's menthol, more or less. I don't really pick up much going on here besides the menthol. It's smooth and pretty concentrated, but it's a $7.49 bottle of menthol... so there's that. .25% is fairly strong, but still pleasant and it just takes off from there. Seems to be somewhere around 2 or 3 times stronger than a normal 10% menthol solution.
Off-flavors: Normal menthol off-flavors at higher percentages. A bit less chemical and bitter than other menthols I've tried, but still has a grassy note if you overdo it.
Throat Hit: Standard menthol throat hit. Icy bite on inhale and exhale, no added harshness when used low. I get a bit of light chemical edge when mixing with a heavy hand, but it seems a little less pronounced than my generic menthol at equivalent levels of cooling.
Uses & Pairings: Yeah, it's just menthol. In general, better for mints and fruits than anything involving creams or bakeries. If you do want some coolness in a cream, like for a milkshake, look at Koolada instead, which is more subtle and lives more in the exhale.
Notes: Again, this feels fairly concentrated. My usual menthol is just a bottle of Wizard Labs 10% menthol solution, and this feels at least twice as strong. Concentration testing was done in a mix with 1% FLV Cranberry. .25% is definitely noticeable. Just a menthol coolness. .5% is a solid menthol. Deeper coolness but still no harsh bite. I'm start to get some bitter, slightly grassy menthol flavor in there as well. It's still subtle here, but noticeable. At 1%, I'm getting a bit of bite and a more pronounced menthol flavor on top of the icyness. The slightly grassy taste is getting a little vegetal and a there is a bit of sting to it. I still don't pick up a clear mint or anything like that. Worth nothing that 1% caused some crystallization in the bottle. I mixed 10ml in a 15ml glass bottle, and the head space had some visible crystalization where the juice had been up on the sides and fell back down. Menthol is pretty subjective, but I think it'll work better closer to .25% here. I'm not a huge fan of overly mentholated juices, but at 1% it feels closer to my 10% menthol solution at 2.5 or 3%.
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