There are many e juices on the market, but what makes a premium e juice?
Have you ever been to a vapor shop and they have all of those juice bottles sitting on shelves with all the same labels? Those are known as "house blends". These are cheap liquids made by a manufacture that wholesales to a majorty of these pop up vapor shops. Its all the same and they just slap there homemade labels on them. Some shops even make it there in their shop, behind closed doors. Who knows what they put in the bottles. Is it even food grade material? These are not premium e-juices.
My opinion is that the grades you mentioned are all subjective, you can rank it by price or by how much you like it. "Grade", when other people talk about it, doesn't tell me anything about how "good" it is.
For price, I consider "cheap" juice to be anything less than $7/15mL. "Mid" is $7 to $12/15mL. "Premium" is anything more expensive than that. DIY is always "cheap" in this regard, unless you factor in your time making it.
Then there is "perceived quality", how much I like it, how "good" it tastes, etc. I consider HHV, AVE, BWB, and MOV to be "premium" because I think they all make high quality juice which tastes very good to me, yet they are "mid" priced. A few juices from vendors like MBV and ECB, and even a couple by Hangsen I picked up at would call "mid" despite clearly being "cheap" in price. These ones don't give me that "premium" feeling, so I think they are just "pretty good". I have bought "mid" priced juice that tastes "cheap" and certainly quite a few that both cost and taste "cheap".
I don't bother with anything that is actually "premium" priced in my mind, because I know taste is subjective and I might not like it. Or, I might really like it and be tempted to spend more than I want to on juice. My "mid" priced "premiums" are satisfying enough.
Sorry for all the quotations and useless babbling... just wanted to get my opinion in on this topic.
For price, I consider "cheap" juice to be anything less than $7/15mL. "Mid" is $7 to $12/15mL. "Premium" is anything more expensive than that. DIY is always "cheap" in this regard, unless you factor in your time making it.
Then there is "perceived quality", how much I like it, how "good" it tastes, etc. I consider HHV, AVE, BWB, and MOV to be "premium" because I think they all make high quality juice which tastes very good to me, yet they are "mid" priced. A few juices from vendors like MBV and ECB, and even a couple by Hangsen I picked up at would call "mid" despite clearly being "cheap" in price. These ones don't give me that "premium" feeling, so I think they are just "pretty good". I have bought "mid" priced juice that tastes "cheap" and certainly quite a few that both cost and taste "cheap".
I don't bother with anything that is actually "premium" priced in my mind, because I know taste is subjective and I might not like it. Or, I might really like it and be tempted to spend more than I want to on juice. My "mid" priced "premiums" are satisfying enough.
Sorry for all the quotations and useless babbling... just wanted to get my opinion in on this topic.
Premium E juices are just that: PREMIUM
These e-juices are made with top grade ingredients, the best flavoring profiles, and top of the line labels and bottles. These companies focus on their premiere flavors, and trying to mass produce hundreds of low taste flavors of e-liquid. They concentrate on their best flavors, and perfect them. These flavor profiles become a hit with vapors that are trying the next best thing. I shop for all of my premium e juice at http://www.premiumvaporjuice.com/.
So what is premium e-juice?
It can be a number of things I guess. Like some take extra care with presentation and packaging, like Alpha Vapes, which seems many are very fond of. They also have a unique "flavor profile" that sets them apart. They probably have some super secret special sauce. What makes a juice company "premium" to me
Unusual hard to duplicate flavors (think gourmet teas, coffees, chocolates, unusual deserts)quality ingredients
exceptional customer service
Great packaging
I prefer glass drippier bottles
I am a sucker for personalized notes/samples great artwork and imagination on the website.
Simple I can make cheap....a company that makes me want to spend $$$ with them is wonderful.
"It's easy to mix grape and watermelon with PG/VG or simply use a premade flavoring. It is Much harder to add a hint of orange and cranberry to a tea. That is without it actually tasting to much like orange and cranberry rather then tea or being overly bitter or sweet. Then there is the issue of how many ways you can possibly mix similar flavors and actually make each recipe truly unique. I see many simple recipes posted all the time but rarely see the very complex recipes being given away.
Developing well blended recipes of e-juice takes a good bit of time and can be (not always) costly for the R&D. I know one juice maker that spends about an hour or two a day for up to two weeks developing a single flavor. In the span of time spent mixing and testing one juice it lessens the number of orders for existing flavors he can fill. He could hire someone to fill more orders but that just adds more overhead. And this particular vendor sells for $.45/ml for his juice. If he added glass vials, fancy labels and packaging like AiV you would then have a higher premium juice. Though not all premium juice is actually premium or actually worth a cent more then the cheap stuff.
Many people who vape simply don't care about DIY and can afford to buy what they like. Most people who can afford a $300+ mod should have no problem paying $1/ml for juice. These are the same people who will pay $2 for a premium beer or $200 for a premium wine. There is cheap beer in cheaper cans (Yuck!) for those who like cheap and plenty of DIY resources for both beer and wine. And again like with liquors there are vendors who charge more for steeping so the juice is ready when you buy it."- http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/general-e-liquid-discussion/488876-what-makes-liquid-premium-vs-mid-grade-vs-cheap.html.
Developing well blended recipes of e-juice takes a good bit of time and can be (not always) costly for the R&D. I know one juice maker that spends about an hour or two a day for up to two weeks developing a single flavor. In the span of time spent mixing and testing one juice it lessens the number of orders for existing flavors he can fill. He could hire someone to fill more orders but that just adds more overhead. And this particular vendor sells for $.45/ml for his juice. If he added glass vials, fancy labels and packaging like AiV you would then have a higher premium juice. Though not all premium juice is actually premium or actually worth a cent more then the cheap stuff.
Many people who vape simply don't care about DIY and can afford to buy what they like. Most people who can afford a $300+ mod should have no problem paying $1/ml for juice. These are the same people who will pay $2 for a premium beer or $200 for a premium wine. There is cheap beer in cheaper cans (Yuck!) for those who like cheap and plenty of DIY resources for both beer and wine. And again like with liquors there are vendors who charge more for steeping so the juice is ready when you buy it."- http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/general-e-liquid-discussion/488876-what-makes-liquid-premium-vs-mid-grade-vs-cheap.html.
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