vapornut e-liquid review (alpha tasting, pre-release)

E-liquid purveyor-to-be VaporNut.com (progunxzx, on IRC & ECF) sent me some of his lovely e-liquid recipes he's been working on. These liquids are in the Alpha stage, he's just trying to nail down the recipe he likes. They were sent to me out of pity as I'd never had, at the time, tried any descent e-liquid flavors and couldn't afford any.

He sent me 3ml, I believe, bottles of his Watermelon, Carmel Apple, and Chocolate Banana. The bottles arrived intact, and well labelled. These are a 60/40 PG/VG blend, in 25mg/ml nicotine strength. I will be tasting these, obviously, with my only e-cigarette. I vape on a stock 510. I spent a couple hours vaping each by dripping the liquid in the atomizer with a blank whiste-tip with no filler. Each time I cleaned my atomizer, and puffed pure VG through it to flush it of the previous flavors.

vapornut's Watermelon
Overall 4.5/5
(Taste:5 Vapor:4 Smoothness: 4)
The liquid was, on arrival, a vibrant pink color. It looked like a Jolly Rancher candy-stick I remember from back in Middle School, and tasted exactly the same! The color has since faded, despite being locked away in a light-safe box for all of it's life with me, but the taste has not. I truly love this flavor. It's a little too up front for all day vaping, but I plan to keep a bottle of this with me as much as possible once they're available for sale! I've heard many reviewers speak of Throat-Hit and I've seen some confusion on what that means. I will speak of only Smoothness. I <3 Smoothness. The watermelon was very smooth, with really nice vapor production. Closer to the all-VG liquids I use most of the time than I expected from my experiences with PG/VG blends. I almost wanted to give this one a 5 by 5, but being a blend it's still not as smooth as "my idea" of perfection.

vapornut's Carmel Apple
Overall 4/5
(Taste:4 Vapor:4 Smoothness:4)
Next up, the Carmel Apple. I really liked this flavor, but the carmel was fairly subtle compared to the strength of the greenish apple notes. Both flavors were there, but that green apple was a nice and sturdy candy-type green apple and stood out strong. Again, reminiscent of Jolly Rancher's green apple. Equally as smooth and vaporful as the Watermelon. This was my fiancée's favorite, but she also seconded the subtle nature of the Carmel.

vapornut's Chocolate Banana
Overall 3/5
(Taste:3 Vapor:4 Smoothness:3)
This one I did not enjoy as much. I'm not a big fan of Banana to start with, in all honesty. So if you like the candy-banana runts-like flavor, you might really enjoy this. To both me and my Fiancée it came off as more of a slightly over-ripe banana. The chocolate was more of an after-taste to me, under the banana. Being prejudiced against banana, we give it a 3 for taste as it's a dead on banana, just not quite the one I'd think most people would expect. As for smoothness, this had more of a throat irritation for both of us, and really we had a hard time vaping it for very long as a result. But, as I said, we're both quite partial to the ultra-smooth all-VG most of the time. From getting to know many other vapers from ECF and IRC, most would be fine with this liquids level of Throat-Hit.