Flavorah Raspberry

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 Raspberry @ 3%, 60/40 VG/PG, Steeped 13 days.

Flavor Description: Top heavy, perfumey, but still dense raspberry candy, with a deeper dark berry buried underneath a flat base. I don't get anything fresh or juicy here but the sweetness is nice.

I seem to be in the minority on this, check the second opinions.

Inhale is all top notes. Lightly sweet, almost bitter. Exhale is dense and seems unbalanced. I get top perfumey notes, and I get some deep berry sweetness, but this seems to missing the middle range that makes a fruit bright and juicy. Finish has a slight lingering bitterness from all that perfume but otherwise fairly clean for a sticky candy flavor.

Off-flavors: At 3%, this pushes into an almost smarties (american version, natch) type of chalky candy flavor. Almost a dry cotton candy feel. It's a lot less pronounced at lower percentages, but you can feel it lurking right around the corner.

Throat Hit: Light below 2%, gets weird after that. Perfume just lodges in the top of my throat with some tightness.

Uses: Raspberry top notes with fruit blends. Part of a full raspberry. Sweet Raspberry candies. With the dryness and the perfume thing going on I'd be hard-pressed to figure out much else.

Pairings: Bright, juicy berries. FA Raspberry or INW Raspberry are safe bets. Maybe a jammy or syrupy dark berry. Blackcurrant to up the tartness a bit.

Notes:

S&V concentration tasting, just light perfume for me at .5%. 1% is a bit better, I start getting an actual raspberry flavor and the sweetness level is dead on. Still way too perfumey for a full raspberry. This starts to get weird and muted above 1.5% and that perfume builds up in my throat. I'd suggest mixing with this as a candy raspberry top note between 1 and 1.5%.

In context, I don't really see the point. TFA Sweet Raspberry is good for a candy raspberry. FA Raspberry is a good more realisitc take. INW will blow the taste buds out of the back of your head with a sort of artifical but bright as hell raspberry.

Shoutout to /u/apexified for sending this my way for review.

Second Opinions:

A lot of fleeting mentions on reddit about this being a lot better than I think it is. A lot of this come downs to percentage, but I just don't get this one. Some quick mentions here, here, and here..

/u/skiddlzninja/ thinks this a weak flavor and needs at least 3% in a mix, 6% solo. Does mention pomegranate and considering that, this does seem a bit more like a pomegranate than a raspberry.

At least someone else seems to be on team perfume.

ELR flavor notes are sparse and not particulary helpful.

And no reviews on BCF or ECX. So, as always YMMV.

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