The Smoking Spot

Essentially a cheat sheet for how to start a vape brand. Cannabis purists step aside, the vape market is dominated by botanical terpene profiles, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Amanda Breeze and Ryan Herron discuss how vape brands can set themselves apart from their competitors and muse over the fact that most don't put the effort in. We talk about the restrictive effect descriptions Canadians are dealing with, what exactly Houndstooth tastes like, and what to do when the terps you ordered smell like a literal garbage fire.

Finally, we quick-fire some questions we ask our clients when starting a new vape project and discuss common pitfalls when launching a new flavor. Hit a few blinkers and start writing that business plan you told your Dad was already a done deal, we're launching Vape brands this week on The Smoking Spot.

Check our professional work educating on and formulating scent and flavor profiles @Scentelligence

Follow us on Instagram @the.smokingspot to join the conversation. Amanda is on Instagram @emerald.temple.living

Ryan, too @theloud100

We sit down with Marge from the Bite Me podcast to discuss this summer's Camp Canna. Amanda tells us the (tragic) story of being disqualified from the stoner-lympics, Marge tells us why summer camp fosters the best community, and Ryan listens intently while mentally practicing his archery skills. Stick around to hear the ladies' rating for this year's camp and details on the next.

After camp, we bite down on the topic of creating your own edibles and the balancing act between creating something delicious that also has a precise dosage and desired effect. Let's just say, it's not as easy as it looks.

Marge talks us through her interview process and some of the heavy hitters she's had on the show. This episode is going to make you hungry, encourage you to munch an edible, and finally subscribe to the Bite Me podcast. Grab the strongest cookie in the cabinet and join us for this sweet little baker's dozen of an episode.

Check our professional work educating on and formulating scent and flavor profiles @Scentelligence

Follow us on Instagram @the.smokingspot to join the conversation. Amanda is on Instagram @emerald.temple.living

Ryan, too @theloud100

We sit down this week with David Jacob Kramer, author of Heads Together to talk about the underground press culture of the 60's and 70's. At a time when artists, psychedelic explorers, and activists came together to optimistically smoke pot and push back against government control, we saw an explosion of creative material hit the streets. As ephemeral as newsprint is, some of these publications survived long enough for Kramer to go digging through the archives and share the best-of-the-best. We talk about the state of microfiche, how digging through records became a career, and how hoarding old newspapers is actually a righteous act of rebellion. Grab some loose-leaf, twist one up, and join us for this illustrative trip through the archives.

We're back from our hiatus with a round-up about the latest scent-based news. We talk about A.I. perfume and why they're going to suck for a while. Amanda presents some newly trending scents in fragrance production and we both explore what "Opal" might smell like. Stick around and hold your nose while we try to describe that teen-boy smell (body spray, that is). No worries, herb fanatics, we focus on cannabis scents in everything from luxe perfumes to hard seltzers. 

Let's explore how we might someday be able to add the Headspace app to our phones and fax our friends a smell. Oh! The possibilities. Lastly, we sneak in some weird topics and discuss fat-washing rum with ham, WD-40 perfume, and the Tajinification of the grocery store aisle.

Twist open a cannabis-flavored seltzer and top it with an exotic citrus garnish for this week's bouquet of scent stories.

On this episode, Ryan and Amanda relive their tangie-scented trauma and talk about those big bright citrus profiles found in our favourite plant and the compounds that contribute to it. Despite the prevalence of Limonene-rich cultivars, we uncover why they don't always dominate citrus profiles as expected.

Drawing from Leafly's compilation of limonene-dominant strains and Abstrax's insightful analysis, we dissect the draw of citrus profiles and how terpene tests are doing a disservice to the profile. From the celebrated past to the present day analysis, we trace the lineage back to the days before Cali O and Skunk.

We unravel the complexities of scent preferences, exploring why some prefer a subtle breeze scented with orange blossoms and others go out of their way to drive by the garlic processing plant.

Let's explore the essence of exoticism in cultivars and how certain traits can elevate something ordinary into a luxury product. 

Reach beyond the bottle of orange cleaner and grab a jar of something that smells like a candy-scented candle. Light up, and listen in, you can practically smell the Tropicanna-Sulphurs from here.