Flavorah Waffle

Setup: Recoil w/ flavor barrel, Dual 15 wrap 26g 3mm Nifethal 70 coils @.18 ohms. 60w power, 450F temp limit. Full Cotton Wicks.

Testing: FLV Waffle @ 1% and 1 drop per 10ml, 60/40 VG/PG, Steeped 7 days.

Flavor Description: This one is... interesting. If anyone has insight here, for the love of god, share it with the rest of the class. Used super low, it almost tastes like a sweet whole grain bread, with some doughy notes. Anything over .15% and I'm getting some serious earthy, almost astringent (like FLV Rhubarb) notes. I'm having a lot of trouble seeing this as a waffle flavor. I think this may have niche use in boosting aromatic tobaccos, but it's going to be a pretty small niche.

Inhale has a vegetal, slightly astringent sweetness. Decent body, but pretty odd. Exhale has some doughy notes up front. Could theoretically be a waffle batter, but I'm missing any of the crispier, sweeter texture of a waffle. Top notes start off with an almost sour, slighty yeasty, tang and pick up a bitter vegetal astringency. Like raw rhubarb actually. Moderately full with some sweetness here, but nothing that really reads as anything that should be near a waffle. That vegetal note ends up lingering quite a bit, turning almost acrid like the top notes from an overcooked waffle. I'm a bit stumped.

Off-flavors: I can't really see this tasting much like a waffle, but maybe it's just going to take a better mixer than me to figure it out.

Throat Hit: Used low, no real throat hit.

Uses & Pairings: I may just be lacking in imagination or technical skill here, but this seems like no part of an actual waffle. There's some doughyness, but even down low there's a pretty serious vegetal quality to this.

I can see this being used as a tobacco additive, but again pretty low. It would take a non-aromatic tobacco and add some bready and green leafy notes.

There may be some use here in making your bready desert base pick up some whole grain nuance or maybe a light griddled note, but I don't know if thats a thing that people are into.

Notes: Concentration testing, this is super concentrated and super finicky. After my initial tests, I went back and made a 10% dilution. At .1% (less than 1 drop per 30ml), I get a sweet whole grain bread in the top notes. No really body down this low, but the top notes have a pretty aggresive presence. .15% is starting to taste like that grain has sprouted a bit, I'm getting some odd crisp green notes, especially towards the end of the exhale. .2% is pushing earthy pretty hard. That green note is a little astringent. At .25% that green note is dominating the back of the exhale and colonizing the inhale. Just for laughs, trying my sample at 1%, it's really astringent and funky. The bread is pretty lost underneath that vegetal note. I'd maybe use this at .1% to whole grain up a bread base, and maybe .2% for a tobacco additive.

Second Opinions:

One review on BCF, user "Brad" gives it 4 stars and says: "Not a stand alone imo. Kinda "raw doughy" taste and feel. Better when I added some berry flavors. No syrup flavor I could notice. Like a under cooked fresh waffle, batter kind of flavor. Still good for the collection." So I'm defintely not agreeing here.

One note on ELR, by user "Brian_SFL": "nope. nothing like waffle to me. ." He still gave it two stars though, so?

Heres the Flavorah product page. Their description: "Great dough and waffle notes hit up front in the mouth. Think of a Belgian waffle without berries or whipped cream, but those can be added."

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