How Should E-Liquid Flavor Be Evaluated?

  As a serious e-cigarette user, how to accurately and elegantly describe the flavor of e-liquid is an important standard that distinguishes casual users from artistic users. When you painstakingly (think) give a friend a bottle of e-liquid, their feedback will always be just two words: "good to vape." Don't you feel that this e-liquid is not only good to vape, but your friend is particularly eager to vape it?

  In the entire e-cigarette system, unlike the technical tasks of making coils, calculating resistance, and tinkering with chips, the flavor of e-liquid is a very subtle and complex experience. Accurately expressing this experience is not only a skill that requires innate talent but also a crown for every aspiring artistic e-cigarette user to wear as they progress.
  To describe the flavor of e-liquid, we can roughly categorize the vocabulary of e-cigarette users into the following levels:
  Level 1: "Good to vape."
  Level 2: "This e-liquid has a high degree of restoration, it's lychee flavor."
  Level 3: "Wow, this e-liquid has a full-bodied flavor at 0.2 data."
  There are many levels in between.
  Final Level: "This e-liquid must be vaped at a low temperature above 0.5, and after cooling, the flavor is subtle, half-frozen, wrapped in lychee flavor, slowly melting in the throat, and you can almost hear a 'hiss' sound as the originally frozen aroma suddenly comes out."
  With frequent vaping and practice, reaching Level 3 is achievable without any talent. However, achieving the final level requires not only a delicate palate but also a strong foundation in Chinese language and literature education and a vivid imagination, which is often referred to as being blessed by the ancestors. Below, we provide a simple literary exercise to help aspiring artistic vapers climb the ladder to ultimate flavor expression ability.
  1. List the components, ratios, and atomizer structure of the e-liquid.
  This entry-level technique only requires a clear understanding of the composition and ratio of the e-liquid. With some sentence structure embellishment, it can have a certain effect. Speaking this way won't sound crude but may come off as a bit pretentious.
  Using the above technique, a correct description of the Blue Dragon flavor should be:
Blue Dragon's dropper contains fresh blueberry jam, crushed to release new juice, poured into the bottle, combined with dragon fruit and kiwi; the blueberry jam flavor is dominant, with the sourness underpinned by the accompaniment of dragon fruit, paired with a light analysis at 40 watts, gracefully entering the throat, a delight to the palate.
  2. Metaphor.
  Basic metaphors are easy to grasp, but a strong sense of proportion, accuracy, and humor in metaphors require years of accumulation.
  Example: "The Captive of Food"
  Using the above technique, a correct description of the Orange Ice flavor should be:
The orange ice emits a dried tangerine peel aroma, like an elderly person weathered by time. At first taste, it seems wrinkled on the surface, but when you take another puff, you can draw out the flavor of years weathered by frost and wind.
  3. Concise vocabulary listing to summarize the experience.
  This focuses on vocabulary accumulation, but the downside is that it can make the listener feel that it is superficial.
  Using the above technique, a correct description of the Berry Chef flavor should be:
I remember clearly, at the age of eighteen, on Christmas, standing on the ridge, all alone, I took out my e-cigarette for the first time, timidly filled it with Berry Chef, and it was truly rich and refreshing, with a strong flavor that smoothly went down my throat, reminiscent of a first kiss, like a special rite of passage into adulthood.
  4. Wild exaggeration and distortion.
  This requires a high level of artistic talent and imagination. Using it without talent will likely result in a failure to achieve the intended effect.
  Using the above technique, a description of the Triple Mango flavor should be:
I took a deep puff of Triple Mango, that original flavor, both fresh and tender. Could it be that I pulled a fruit from a mango tree in the Philippines into my throat with too much force? These fruits, detached from their origin, are like children who have never seen the world, frantically running up and down in my lungs, showing no signs of stopping.
  5. Describe the smoker's reaction and contrast.
  This actually utilizes the principle of empathy, making it a strong experiential technique that allows the other party to easily gain a sense of taste recognition.
  Using the above technique, a correct description of the Blueberry Flavor Beads should be:
Every night, Old Chen has to vape a whole tank of blueberry flavor beads. Perhaps it's a residual effect of years of raising children; that faint laundry detergent scent, every time Old Chen takes a puff, it's like taking on the responsibility of washing the child's clothes. A light puff is like washing a pair of socks, and another puff is like washing a pile of clothes. After a few puffs, he is filled with the joy of labor.
  6. Sentiment.
  Words that soak and reshape a certain atmosphere, evoking memory points, may not directly describe taste and flavor but can achieve the purpose of conveying flavor through atmosphere.
  This technique requires the vaper to be dramatic and also requires time accumulation. The short development history of e-cigarettes does not yet match such a thick flavor G-point.
  Of course, when describing the flavor of e-liquid, it is definitely not about using a single method to describe it. A true expert knows how to integrate and apply different methods to describe different e-liquids and flavors, using different techniques for different people.
  By mastering the above methods, become an artistic vaper, a tasteful vaper, and no longer just say "good to vape" about e-liquids.