this may be old may be a repost but i didn't see it. most of the shisha you're getting in the states is made with flavorings, however using whole fruits is very easy and very tasty, i learned a bit while deployed, whatever tobacco u can get works, wash it, it does help, then dry it a little, ad you're honey or molasses which ever they both work. now take you're fruit equal or more than u have tobacco, oranges and such include the skin much of the base oils are in the skin of the fruit mix all this stuff together,i.e. a bunch of fruit tobacco and ur sweetener simmer this concoction then cook it then simmer some more than bake some more when it smells like the fruit and is thick like semi hardened concrete ur pretty good, now let it cool add glycerin until it is wet like your store brand shisha, or u can go real old school as i've seen in a few of these countries and soak a whole tobacco leaf in wine and smoke it still wet, this is also good, i cant really give measurements as i've never measured play and experiment you know the basics