I'm sorry. I can't help it.
As somebody who started out their young career out of college as a copywriter in a Madison Avenue advertising company, I have to admit that when I need a good chuckle, I get to reading some of the eliquid descriptions.
Some of them are downright hyperbolic, not to mention sort of silly.
Wild field berries. Yeah, uh-huh. Are they making their own flavorings, because I am familiar with *every* berry flavoring out there ----but I also grow my own wild blueberries and strawberries on my land......as far as I know, nobody is actually extracting flavorings from those.
Ask any of the flavoring manufacturers....these are the same flavorings used in candy making and baking. I guess I appreciate a flavoring called pineapple because I know what that is....
(Its beginning to look like some of those pharmaceutical commercials where the older people with horrible incurable diseases are shown "romping" in pastures with dandelions and black-eyed-susans, not a care in the world, because they are receiving biologics thru their veins (just chemo in another format, actually) and very few of them, in real life, at least the ones I know, are doing any romping thru pastoral fields. )
So, I'm vaping banana flavoring in my eliquid today. Wait! It's NOT banana flavoring. Instead, I"m transported on a trek to Asia where the Gokusen bananas are grown, 500 feet above sea level, from hybrids of 100s of banana varieties -----Heck, the bananas alone cost $6 a piece! ......and wait, they even have serial numbers!!!
I was moving on to pineapple ------ is this just pineapple? NO of course not. This is special pineapple grown on some out-of-the-way Archipelago that requires a charter pilot and helicopter to get to.
Next, we just give resumes to anyone who mixes juice into a bottle. Has the mixer lived in Paris.........because, you know, if you've even set FOOT in Paris, even for a flight change, you've got to have experienced some kind of major haute cuisine mind meld. And of course, if you've been a barrista (coffee pourer), all the better.
Stuff like that.
Really, I totally understand how ad copy sells products. It's just that some of these heady, hyperbolic descriptions have the opposite effect on me.
Hit me up when you hear about any Fair Trade eliquids. For that, of course, I'd pay $30 for 30ml instead of $9.
As somebody who started out their young career out of college as a copywriter in a Madison Avenue advertising company, I have to admit that when I need a good chuckle, I get to reading some of the eliquid descriptions.
Some of them are downright hyperbolic, not to mention sort of silly.
Wild field berries. Yeah, uh-huh. Are they making their own flavorings, because I am familiar with *every* berry flavoring out there ----but I also grow my own wild blueberries and strawberries on my land......as far as I know, nobody is actually extracting flavorings from those.
Ask any of the flavoring manufacturers....these are the same flavorings used in candy making and baking. I guess I appreciate a flavoring called pineapple because I know what that is....
(Its beginning to look like some of those pharmaceutical commercials where the older people with horrible incurable diseases are shown "romping" in pastures with dandelions and black-eyed-susans, not a care in the world, because they are receiving biologics thru their veins (just chemo in another format, actually) and very few of them, in real life, at least the ones I know, are doing any romping thru pastoral fields. )
So, I'm vaping banana flavoring in my eliquid today. Wait! It's NOT banana flavoring. Instead, I"m transported on a trek to Asia where the Gokusen bananas are grown, 500 feet above sea level, from hybrids of 100s of banana varieties -----Heck, the bananas alone cost $6 a piece! ......and wait, they even have serial numbers!!!
I was moving on to pineapple ------ is this just pineapple? NO of course not. This is special pineapple grown on some out-of-the-way Archipelago that requires a charter pilot and helicopter to get to.
Next, we just give resumes to anyone who mixes juice into a bottle. Has the mixer lived in Paris.........because, you know, if you've even set FOOT in Paris, even for a flight change, you've got to have experienced some kind of major haute cuisine mind meld. And of course, if you've been a barrista (coffee pourer), all the better.
Stuff like that.
Really, I totally understand how ad copy sells products. It's just that some of these heady, hyperbolic descriptions have the opposite effect on me.
Hit me up when you hear about any Fair Trade eliquids. For that, of course, I'd pay $30 for 30ml instead of $9.