When talking about a good bottle of juice, we often pay attention to whether its flavor is authentic or not, how sweet it is or the quality of each flavor. However, there is another factor that needs to be kept in mind, which is the complexity of the juice when many flavors are mixed together. To put it simply, it is the number of flavor “notes” that you feel in one puff and whether those flavors complement each other or not.
There’s nothing wrong with a single bottle of juice, like a pure green apple or strawberry with a hint of mint, and it’s still a refreshing experience. But there’s something more interesting about enjoying a bottle of juice with many nuances, stimulating your taste buds in many different ways.
These are juices with countless layers of flavor, depending on the type of coil, airflow or atomizer, they will bring different experiences. The flavors will emerge and disappear at different times in the puff, making your taste buds always excited. Now let's find out what a complex juice is and what makes them so popular with vapers.
Flavors are multi-component.
Of course, a bottle of juice is considered “complex” must have many flavor components mixed together. In theory, all vape juice must have this, including single-unit juice bottles. For example, a bottle of green apple juice, when you smoke it, you need to feel the sweetness, a little sourness and the aroma, the slight astringency of the apple peel, then it is a good bottle of juice. Or for example, with tobacco-flavored juice, here we will take Virginia tobacco as an example, you will have to taste the moderate sweetness of tobacco leaves, the rustic aroma of soil or the slight burnt smell of the fire-cured process.
But if that were all, there would be nothing left to write about, right? Think of it this way, custard is delicious on its own, but it would be even better if it was topped with caramel and candied banana. Or tobacco, which is spicy and bitter, would be even more delicious if mixed with a little vanilla. Then you will have a bottle of juice that brings out the best characteristics of each flavor. The richness is balanced with fresh fruit, the heat is softened by a little sweetness, all of them will appear in layers. Being able to recognize different layers of flavor at each time will make vaping not only a tool to quit smoking, but also a hobby that requires sophistication from the user.
Balance between layers
A movie will only be good if the opening, the lead-in, the climax and the ending all work together, without any weak or flawed parts. The same goes for juice, you can buy a bottle of juice with a flavor list of more than a dozen ingredients, but one flavor overwhelms all of them, that will definitely be the most disappointing experience in the world. To create a delicious bottle of juice from many ingredients requires the manufacturer to understand each flavor, when they can go together, whether they will complement or destroy each other's flavors,... Only when this is done properly, can you fully enjoy each flavor in that bottle of juice.
Quality of each ingredient
Yes, the quality of each ingredient greatly affects the overall taste of the juice. Simply because high-quality flavors have their own complexity. Remember the apple juice example I mentioned above? A low-quality apple juice can’t even describe the true smell, let alone the taste of a real apple. In addition, in juices that use cheap ingredients, they often add sweeteners, lots and lots of sweeteners to cover up the flaws. This leads to many times when you smoke, you will taste nothing but a sweet, salty sugar water mixed with a few drops of syrup.
When complexity backfires
#1: Too Many Sweeteners
Sweetness is a flavor that can easily overpower other flavors. Think of it like cooking. Too salty? Add sugar to make it less salty. Too sour? Add sugar to make it less sour. Spicy? Bitter? Astringent? All can be fixed with sugar. The same goes for vape juice. Too much sweetener in your juice will overwhelm the other flavors. And if you can’t taste anything but sugar in a bottle of juice, it’s a waste.
#2: Cannot clearly differentiate the taste
The lack of clear flavor separation makes the overall juice lose all its value. The flavors will blend together into a mess instead of each flavor having its own stage. This is a common mistake among first-time juicers. Remember that to make a good juice, you almost have to gamble, make mistakes and correct many times to find the exact ratio between flavors.
#3: Vaper's Tongue
Why am I talking about taste loss? Taste loss is the inability of your taste buds to perceive certain flavors. A complex juice with strong flavors will cause your body to perceive those flavors as saturated and create a barrier that prevents you from continuing to experience them. If you experience taste loss after a single juice, you can easily switch to a completely different flavor. But if you experience taste loss after a complex juice? Well, things start to get messy.
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