**Sweet Strawberry (FLAVRZ) 8% (7-19-23)** -- It seems like every flavor house (and then some) has their own take on Strawberries, this one included. Some people are SB mute, and can't even taste it, and about everyone has their OWN type they like or want, so trying to make one for the masses" is complicated. This one was very unique as I've never tasted one like it, BUT, hehe, there were some "buts". First thing was, it felt a little distracted, and the "red currant" flavor I had gotten previously has returned TO the party, and this one tasted more like a somewhat sweet strawberry mashed up with a red currant. Def. not a pure strawberry. At times, I even got a rather nice almost "bubble gum" undertone from it. The SB tasted about 50/50 natural/artificial, and it was somewhat sweet, but perhaps not quite enough to be a "sweet" strawberry. It tasted a few ticks below mid level sweet. NOW, just like in a previous fruit review, the red currant-ish notes DID really work here, and the bubble gum undertones did as well, and it actually tasted very good, BUT, it was billed as a Sweet SB. I am again, torn between fighting the urge to rank it up, because it tasted great, AND the realization, that it needed to be ranked/rated AS a Sweet SB. At 8% it was fairly full but felt it could use a little more. There were no off-notes, but for the aforementioned notes. Because it was a 50/50 natural/artificial mix, and it wasn't overly bright, or sharp, and didn't have much tart to speak of, it was smoother than expected. All in, a damned tasty flavor, BUT, really more of a Strawberry, Red Currant mashup, with Bubblegum undertones. Would work very well as a mixer, but not enough to pound home the Sweet Strawberry by itself. Because of that, marking it down a bit, and it felt fairly placed at **6.0/10**, about even with the previously tested Pom.