Editor's note: The e-liquid tested here is a prototype. The final packaging will include, compared to the version in our possession, improvements which we are already taking into account for the calculation of the score in this review.
Characteristics of the juice tested
- Sponsor having lent material for the review: Claude Henaux Paris
- Price of the tested packaging: 24 Euros
- Quantity: 28 Ml
- Price per ml: 0.86 Euros
- Price per liter: 860 Euros
- Juice category according to the price per ml previously calculated: High-end, from 0.76 to 0.90 euro ml
- Nicotine dosage: 12 Mg / Ml
- Proportion of Vegetable Glycerin: 60%
Packing
- Presence of a box: Yes
- Are the materials making up the box recyclable ?: Yes
- Presence of a tamper-evident seal: Yes
- Bottle material: Glass, the packaging can only be used for filling if the stopper is fitted with a pipette
- Cork equipment: Glass pipette
- Tip characteristic: No tip, will require the use of a filling syringe if the cap is not fitted
- Name of the juice wholesale on the label: No
- Wholesale PG-VG proportions display on label: Yes
- Wholesale nicotine dosage display on the label: Yes
Steamer note for packaging: 4.4 / 5 
Comments on the packaging
Claude Henaux is a figure of the French vaping by its seniority and its particularity. Indeed, this passionate about beautiful objects has chosen to work for a luxury vape of which he fully assumes and the resulting craftsmanship and the price segment where he is placed.
So when it came to creating a line of liquids bearing his name, it was obvious that the creator could not help but choose the best ingredients, aromatic or presentation, to live up to his reputation.
Thus the packaging that the brand offers us is of high quality. Very special and precious bottles, precise display of all the useful information and an embossed cardboard box, of beautiful appearance, which immediately places the object in the field of seduction.
A convincing first round of the track which augurs well for a sequel which will be no less so.
Legal, security, sanitary, and religious compliance
- Presence of child safety on the cap: Yes
- Presence of clear pictograms on the label: Yes
- Presence of raised marking for visually impaired persons on the label: Yes
- 100% of the juice compounds are indicated on the label: Yes
- Presence of alcohol: No
- Presence of distilled water: No
- Presence of essential oils: No
- Compliance HIDE: Do not know
- HALAL compliance: Do not know
- Indication of the name of the laboratory producing the juice: Yes
- Presence of the contacts necessary to reach a consumer service on the label: Yes
- Presence on the label of a batch number: Yes
Vapelier's note regarding the respect of various conformities (except religious): 5 / 5 
Comments on the security, legal, health and religious aspects
The pinnacle of luxury is always putting safety first. Claude Henaux knows it and gives us here a product very neat on this chapter. Tamper evident seal, child safety, pictograms required, detailed composition of the liquid, raised triangle for the visually impaired, nothing has been forgotten so that the consumer can simply visualize the safety of the product. We appreciate the batch number, the DLUO and the unit numbering of the bottle, like a very great wine.
What is not said, on the other hand and that I am giving you here, is that the assembly of the liquid did not need any coloring, sweetener, additive or preservative. On the contrary, Claude Henaux bet on the quality of the aromas used to arrive at a healthy and balanced juice. No water, no alcohol, here we are at the epicenter of e-liquid alchemy. We don't cheat, we compose. We don't put on makeup, we highlight.
Your juice will arrive after a month of ripening. So you can vaper after a few hours.
Appreciation of the packaging
- Does the graphic design of the label and the product name agree ?: Yes
- Global correspondence of the packaging with the product name: Yes
- The packaging effort made is in accordance with the price category: Yes
Vapelier's note regarding packaging with regard to juice category: 5 / 5
Comments on the packaging
An e-liquid of this price can not afford to be only good. It must also be beautiful. If only to validate the manufacturer's “craftsmanship” positioning. And art, there is. The bottle is, by itself, of great beauty. Straight lines, guaranteeing a timeless aesthetic, very thick white glass, everything here combines to deliver a refined object, “à la Française”.
The bottle arrives in an embossed cardboard box, beautiful in its simplicity, which naturally adds to the charm of the whole. However, this box does not ignore safety since it allows, through a dedicated opening, the visualization of the rear label of the bottle. It also allows, by this same means, to remove said bottle from its location without seeing to damage the box.
Packaging of unparalleled beauty. We are almost in the register of perfumery. The French Touch.
Sensory appreciations
- Color and product name agree ?: Yes
- Do the smell and the name of the product agree ?: Yes
- Definition of odor: Fruity, Vanilla, Blond Tobacco
- Definition of flavor: Sweet, Pastry, Vanilla, Tobacco, Light
- The taste and the name of the product, do they agree ?: Yes
- Did I like this juice ?: Yes
- This liquid reminds me: Nothing and that is all its interest!
Vapelier's note on the sensory experience: 5/5
Comments on the taste of the juice
The smell already emerges the major element that capsizes: desire. And I have the impression that it is this leitmotif which prevailed in the conception of this liquid.
We have in the mouth a very light tobacco, blond and flowery, a light tobacco of the Burley type if I'm not mistaken. But this tobacco is only present to serve as a foundation for gourmet notes of vanilla pods or almonds which blend perfectly. The impression is creamy in the top note to finish rather dry in the base note. And there remains at the end of the mouth distracted scents of dried fruit or even coconut.
We therefore have a gourmet, complex and different tobacco. Its particularity is its fruity, almost floral aspect, which gives the recipe an exquisite lightness. However, # 1 is sweet despite the absence of a sweetener molecule. We then see all the patient assembly work that this result required. We can almost visualize the hours spent waiting for the umpteenth version to be ready for consumption to taste and start over again until reaching, not formal perfection but that which the creator had in mind.
But the result is better than good. He is perfect. The # 1 is an e-liquid of great originality that could resemble a slightly fanciful custard dandy or an elegant gourmet tobacco. Because here there can be no question of vulgarity or even of ease. We vape in balance on a taste thread that leads us to a horizon of delights.
Tasting recommendations
- Recommended power for optimal taste: 28 W
- Type of steam obtained at this power: Thick
- Hit type obtained at this power: Medium
- Atomizer used for the review: Origen V2, Cyclone AFC
- Value of the resistance of the atomizer in question: 0.8
- Materials used with the atomizer: Kanthal, Cotton
Comments and recommendations for an optimal tasting
A juice like this, you have to pamper it. Its viscosity can make it delicate on certain clearomizers and it would be a shame to give it a too airy rendering because, although the aromatic power is good, you risk losing a little precision. And since there are a lot of subtleties, we shouldn't miss it. I therefore recommend a flavor-typed dripper or RTA (rebuildable with reservoir). He agrees to ramp up with the appropriate device and a lukewarm / hot temperature will suit him perfectly.
Recommended Moments
- Recommended times of the day: Morning, Morning - coffee breakfast, Morning - chocolate breakfast, Morning - tea breakfast, End of lunch / dinner with a coffee, End of lunch / dinner with a digestif, End of the evening with or without herbal tea, The night for insomniacs
- Can this juice be recommended as an All Day Vape: No
Overall average (excluding packaging) of the Vapelier for this juice: 4.8 / 5 
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My mood ticket on this juice
I have the incredible luck at the moment to test e-liquids of excellent resistance. The # 1 is one of them, as evidenced by the almost exceptional rating of this review.
A note that is not usurped as this e-liquid has qualities: its salubrity, its bottle, its inimitable and so original taste. The success is total and therefore insolent. In addition, he can vape at will, he never creates feelings of nausea. This is undoubtedly due to its precise recipe, to the aromas that we guess are very elaborate and to its festival of flavors which is a new discovery at each vape session.
The tariff might set some back and I can understand that. But yet, it does not seem to me at all out of step with the quality of the product. I have already vaped much more for much worse results. And then, these Premium liquids are a bit like grands crus. You don't open a bottle of it every day. They are treasured to share with friends or even for a selfish solitary pleasure with a good book and a good coffee.
A total success that propels the #1 into the closed circle of juices that matter.
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