WavesOfVapour liquid tasting different than before

[switchit]

Hi all. I've been a huge fan of the liquids Waves Of Vapour makes, especially Tropical Sunset and Butterscotch.

The last 2 batches I've ordered have had a very different taste than the ones I've ordered before. I had an old bottle of Tropical Sunset laying around that i used to try and compare the taste to the new ones i received, and the taste is way off/different.

For 2 seperate orders the tastes have been off from what i remember and since testing the old bottle i had the taste is indeed different. One of the odd-tasting bottles i have had in the fridge for over a month and the steeping didn't change anything.

Anyone else experiencing this with WoV or do you have any tips for stuff i might be doing wrong. I've not changed brands for the e-cigs themselves, still using Kanger Evods as i did when i really enjoyed the liquids.

Best regards,

switchit


EDIT: I have already discussed the issue with the owner, but she ensured me the recipe hadn't changed. I'm can only judge the liquids through my own taste buds, so i'm looking for people having similar problems/having noticed any change in tastes from WoV. As i wrote, i might have done something wrong/neglected to do something important for the tastes to be so different.

 

[KulrMeStoopid]

Have you emailed Judy@WavesOfVapour to ask her if her recipe has changed?

That would probably be the first thing you should do

 

[switchit]

I have, a couple weeks ago i chatted with her, but she ensured me that the recipes hadn't changed, and that was kind of the end of that conversation.

I only have my own tastebuds to judge this so i wanted to hear if others have had the same problem. The worst feeling in relation to vaping is not enjoying yourself so if this is a 1 of a kind problem (technically 2 for me) then i'll just order some new ones once again, otherwise i'll have to try out new liquids. Can't go back to the analogs

 

[clint]

Were they freshly mixed? They might need steeping. It's the same at liberty flights, they make most of their juices to order and they tell you to leave them for at least 4 days.

It could also be that the flavours of your old juices have improved with time (hence the steeping).

 

[KulrMeStoopid]

I was also thinking "vapers tounge too" where someone gets so used to a juice it doesnt have that wow factor anymore?

 

[Soldier Blue]

I was also thinking "vapers tounge too" where someone gets so used to a juice it doesnt have that wow factor anymore?

Happened to me with loads of juices - I leave them alone for a few weeks and then they are as good as they used to be. (I don't mean because of steeping but as above).

 

[pauly meatballs]

I experienced the same thing with this vendor. Bought several bottles of "going bananas" over the course of a few months. The last few bottles I bought were totally different, the rum had become overpowering. Chalked it up to experience and took my business elsewhere.
This was not a case of vapers tongue. I buy certain juices from other vendors , have done for months and they still taste as they did when I first tried them.

 

[pms5]

I experienced the same thing with this vendor. Bought several bottles of "going bananas" over the course of a few months. The last few bottles I bought were totally different, the rum had become overpowering. Chalked it up to experience and took my business elsewhere.
This was not a case of vapers tongue. I buy certain juices from other vendors , have done for months and they still taste as they did when I first tried them.

+1. My experience exactly. And my name is Paul. Spooky!

 

[switchit]

I've had this one bottle of (bad) juice in the fridge for a month+ and it still tastes wrong. It was brewed a week or so before i received it so it isn't too new or old.

It's not vapors tounge either since i had to begin smoking for a week till i got a new liquid in the mail, and that was from a different vendor.

Seems i'm not the only one experiencing this problem for this vendor, so i will probably try new liquids from elsewhere for now.

 

[VaperCaper]

There are several reasons why juices can be different from one batch to the next.

i) the flavours in the juice have changed over time (steeping) tho if you can do a side by side with an old version and a new version you can rule this out.

ii) "vapers tongue", your tongue can sometimes get coated in 'stuff' that numbs the tastebuds a little, or your tastebuds can change over time (if you've recently switched from smoking then your sense of taste will slowly improve) or you brain might be so used to vaping a certain flavour that it's filtering out part of the flavours you used to experience. A side by side comparison can rule this out as well.

iii) the recipe is 'changed'. Most vendors/juicemakers once they get something that works aren't going to willfully change their recipe, that would be madness.
However if you start with a little recipe and it's not very accurate then if you start to scale up production then multiplying things will increase any error in the recipe and the bigger you scale up the bigger the differences (try and make any cake from any Delia Cookbook in history, only multiply the recipe 20 times first - hint none of them will work )

iv) the supplies have changed. Like changing the recipe few if any juice makers are going to switch in lower quality ingredients. Though it can happen, maybe their normal supplier was short and they used a new guy rather than make customers wait. It's possible as well that someone further up the supply chain has done this without any knowledge of the people lower down the chain.

v) natural flavour variations. If the flavours being used are extracted from natural sources, lets say a particular vanilla flavour comes from extracted vanilla beans then these flavours can vary quite a bit from batch to batch. The flavours of natural ingredients varies tremendously depending on things like time of year, humidity, time stored, temperature of storage etc etc etc

vi) mistake in manufacture. Someone somewhere has stuffed up something. Maybe they added too much or too little of something by mistake, maybe the mix wasn't stirred enough and the top half of it tastes different to the bottom half. Everyone is human and we all royally stuff things up from time to time.