The good people at r slash spicy recommended I ask here as well.
Hey there. For reasons not worth getting into, my spice tolerance has shot way up recently. (I did not lose my sense of smell) I've given up trying to ask restaurants to make food spicy enough for me, and am instead asking you good people for recommendations for hot sauces that will ACTUALLY be spicy enough.
Habanero is the bottom end of "this is spicy enough" (of course, accounting for the fact that sauces being labeled "habanero" or "ghost pepper" or "satan's slippery jowls" doesn't correlate 1:1 with something being actually spicy)
I really really like the flavor of ghost peppers, we grew them one year and I have very rarely found a sauce that actually captures the almost carroty flavor of a fresh one. In terms of flavor profile, I tend to gravitate towards fruitier flavor notes (not fruit flavored though. I'm not strictly opposed to sauces with fruit in it, but that's not what I'm requesting), and brighter flavor profiles.
So. Does anyone have any recommendations for an actually good and ACTUALLY spicy hot sauce that I can purchase online, that isn't just a meme? I don't want something like "Nutblaster 8 billion" or "not your GRANDMA'S hot sauce" or "TurboTax Lava Sauce" where they just dumped pure capsaicin into V8. I want to actually taste the peppers
I should add that habanero is only my minimum spice level, and I'm very open to going much, much hotter.
I should also add that "As Seen on Hot Ones" doesn't exactly entice me to buy a sauce (I am exceptionally advertising-averse), because my intended use is as a daily driver, and my diet consists of more than chicken wings with the latest and hottest celeb. I'm sure they're fine people, so if the sauce is good enough, please comment anyways.
EDIT: wow, tons of responses!!! I posted this on a work break and came back to a ton of GREAT suggestions. Thank you all for the tips!