Vape Flavors 101 Stand in front of a vape shop shelf — or scroll an online catalog for five minutes — and you'll see the same problem everywhere: a hundred flavor names, half of which tell you almost nothing about what's actually in the bottle. "Arctic Blast." "Golden Dream." "Berry Bomb." So here's the honest version of how to choose: ignore the marketing and figure out which category you actually like, then compare specific products within it. That's basically it. Everything else is detail. Flavor names lie a little. Categories don't. A flavor is built from a mix of ingredients designed to mimic — loosely — a fruit, a dessert, a drink, or a cooling sensation. Loosely is the key word. Mango vape doesn't taste exactly like a mango. It tastes like someone's idea of mango, and that idea varies a lot between brands. Two products labeled "strawberry" can be completely different experiences. One might be candy-sweet ...