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Almond Caramel Blend by Pack à l'Ô
Almond Caramel Blend by Pack à l'Ô

Almond Caramel Blend by Pack à l'Ô

Characteristics of the juice tested

  • Sponsor having lent material for the review: LCA Distribution
  • Price of the tested packaging: 21.50 €
  • Quantity: 50 ml
  • Price per ml: 0.43 €
  • Price per liter: 430 €
  • Juice category according to the price per ml previously calculated: Entry level, up to € 0.60 per ml
  • Nicotine dosage: 0 mg / ml
  • Proportion of Vegetable Glycerin: 60%

Packing

  • Presence of a box: Yes
  • Are the materials in the box recyclable ?: Yes
  • Presence of a tamper-evident seal: Yes
  • Bottle material: Flexible plastic, usable for filling, if the bottle is fitted with a mouthpiece
  • Cap equipment: Nothing
  • Tip Feature: Fine
  • Name of the juice wholesale on the label: Yes
  • Wholesale PG-VG proportions display on label: Yes
  • Wholesale nicotine dosage display on the label: Yes

Steamer note for packaging: 4.44 / 5 4.4 5 out of stars

Comments on the packaging

Coming from Malaysia, the range of four Black Series juices from Pack à l'Ô is dedicated to tobacco flavors, blended with other gourmet tastes. Malaysian production in general is rather oriented fruity, fresh fruity and markedly proportioned in aromas, since often diluted in a base with a high proportion of VG.

Almond Caramel Blend is a premium (complex assembly) 40 / 60 (PG / VG), presented in vials of 50ml to 0% nicotine. I do not have any substantial information to suggest to you about the manufacturer of this juice. It is imported by LCA distribution and should be offered around 21,50 €, retail price.

Note that this brand already offers a large panel of e-liquids mostly fruity and it is also interesting for future ex-smokers to find, as this series does, a weaning alternative that meets a specific need among people anxious to get there gradually.

Let's see if the smooth weaning option will apply to the vape of the first test of the Black Series.

Legal, security, sanitary, and religious compliance

  • Presence of child safety on the cap: Yes
  • Presence of clear pictograms on the label: Yes
  • Presence of relief marking for the visually impaired 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 5 5 out of stars

Comments on the security, legal, health and religious aspects

The vial comes in a cardboard box and packed in a zipped plastic bag, it is in tinted PET that can hold up to 60ml, it is not anti-UV. The pouring tip is fixed, it measures 2mm + at its end for a useful opening of 1mm. The closure has a sealed ring of first opening and a child protection.

The volume of juice, the proportions of its base and the rate of nicotine are recorded and clearly legible. You will find the importer's contact information, a lot number and an expiry date (?) As required by law. The pictograms are not the colors or the legal dimensions in France but it is a preparation for 0% of nicotine, which does not expose this labeling to particular recriminations from our officies of official controls. There is also a brief description of the content as well as recommendations for use in several languages. All of this information is also present on the box in their entirety.
This packaging has been verified and certified in accordance with the placing on the market in the EU, so we will consider it as perfectly adapted to the use for which it is intended.

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 5 5 out of stars

Comments on the packaging

The design of the four juices of the Black series is identical for each of the references, only the information and other logos vary in color. As far as you can tell, it is better to refer to the inscriptions and information on the box rather than those listed (the same) on the label, especially if like me, you do not have a telescope.


On a gray / matt black background, on a clear day and the vial correctly oriented, you will see all the instructions already mentioned, in matt metallic gray color, with all other shades, those of the flags of the countries whose language is used for purposes brief descriptions.


For sobriety, it's a no-fault, no decoration, just the logo; the PDT censors have bowed (for better reading certainly), as they have found a marketing design in tune with their concern to protect the youth from the dangers of compulsive buying of vape products, thus avoiding some sort of graphical hypnosis without possible escape, thanks to them for existing.

The plastic label, if it is resistant to any juice dripping and has good opacity to penetrate solar rays, is however not sufficiently surfaced to fully protect your juice. A 12mm wide strip left free makes it possible to control the level of juice remaining but also leaves the risk of damaging the contents to UV radiation; you will therefore take care to protect your vial from direct sunlight.    

Sensory appreciations

  • Color and product name agree ?: Yes
  • Do the smell and the name of the product agree ?: Yes
  • Definition of odor: Sweet, Blond Tobacco
  • Definition of flavor: Sweet, Tobacco, Light
  • The taste and the name of the product, do they agree ?: Yes
  • Did I like this juice ?: Yes
  • This liquid reminds me of: A Virginia mixture coated with caramel

Vapelier's note on the sensory experience: 5/5 5 5 out of stars

Comments on the taste of the juice

 The base in 40 / 60 (PG / VG) is USP grade (US Pharmacopoeia), the equivalent in Europe of EP (European Pharmacopoeia), it is therefore of plant origin. The flavors are food grade and are either natural or artificial. It is specified (as required by legislation, the nature of a long-time additive in vapology) that this juice contains Sweetener, a sweetener bringing a sweet taste to the preparation. As there are several different ingredients to make sweetener (all synthetic: Aspartame, Sucralose, Saccharin ... Except Stevia), I would not venture to give you the exact content and for its safety at the doses used, I would trust the results chemical and biological analyzes that this juice has undergone to be on the list authorized for sale.

"Almond caramel mix" so can we translate the title of this liquid, the mixture in question being an assortment of Virginia Blend American blond tobacco. A coherent program that should provide us with pleasant feelings to the vape, go for the live experience.

Tasting recommendations

  • Recommended power for optimal taste: 50 W
  • Type of vapor obtained at this power: Dense
  • Hit type obtained at this power: Light
  • Atomizer used for the review: Wasp Nano
  • Value of the resistance of the atomizer in question: 0.3Ω
  • Materials used with the atomizer: Stainless steel, cellulose fiber (Holy Fiber)

Comments and recommendations for an optimal tasting

When opened, a clear smell of “caramelized” blond tobacco escapes, not really powerful but let's say: unmistakable. The fine is not in itself a very fragrant compound, it did not appear to me in an olfactory way. To the taste, the juice is ostensibly sweet, frankly caramelized, the tobacco takes the second part of the feeling, like the almond, rather at the end of the mouth.

A first test is performed on the True (Ehpro), an ato mono coil that allows an indirect vape (MTL) that I mounted 0,8Ω with a capillary recently obtained from Holy Fiber, our partner welcome (because our activity is rather cotton consumer ...) who produces cellulose fiber.

Starting at 15W, the vape is a bit “messy”, only a general impression emerges where the caramel happily supplants the other flavors.

I go to 18W, it's much better, the vape heats a little more and the tobacco is gaining amplitude to assemble at equal power with the caramel. At the end of the mouth it is the tobacco and the almond that last the longest, the caramel being more felt like a sweet binder than like a sensible flavor.

20W, the vape is finally hot, the flavors are exacerbated without being altered, we are of course a greedy tobacco, quite sweet but generous over time, the expiration by the nose gives full meaning to the word tasting with this kind of material . The production of steam is normal for this proportion of VG, but this is not the aim of the atomizer, the assembly and the powers involved.
With the Wasp Nano, another mono coil but dripping this time, always with this same capillary (very neutral taste and quite correct as to its capillary power in the flow of juice), editing goes to 0,3Ω and 35W to start .

The vents are open but I do not pull too hard. At this power, the intake of air may substantially dilute the invariable aromatic portion. The vape is barely warm, the caramel dominates, an amplitude due to the material is more generous than with the True but the power as the intensity remain modest.

At 40W it's a bit the same thing, the vape heats up more but the feeling is the same.

45W it starts to be clarified, tobacco enhances its presence, the bitter side that we can sometimes dread with this kind of juice is totally absent, probably thanks to the caramel and almond (the sweetener should not be there absent either).

50W (3,9V) is the foot! The hot vape is perfectly suited to this juice, the flavors gain in precision, the blond tobacco finally takes its place, without excess, finely "controlled" by its friends. The duration in the mouth becomes significant, I reach the end of the possibilities of the battery in mech.

I want to push it further to tell you if it accepts an "unreasonable" heater, I switch to a box and 60W (4,3V). This juice perfectly supports excessive heating (in relation to the “normal” resistance / power recommendations). It does not undergo any negative taste alteration, on the contrary, it expresses the aromas with precision and durability, I am quite positively amazed.

At these powers, the volume of steam (as consumption) becomes substantial. At 3mg / ml, the hit remains light and the dilution to 20% (10ml for 50ml) did not really weaken the aromatic power, as long as you steamed above the average power (in W) recommended for your editing, I would not say as much with 20ml booster.

This very slightly amber juice, does not have any significant inconvenience as to the deposits it can leave on your coils, but expect a fouling relatively earlier than with a transparent 50 / 50.

Recommended Moments

  • Recommended times of the day: Morning, End of lunch / dinner with a coffee, All afternoon during everyone's activities, Early evening to relax with a drink, End of the evening with or without herbal tea, The night for insomniacs
  • Can this juice be recommended as an All Day Vape: Yes

Overall average (excluding packaging) of the Vapelier for this juice: 4.81 / 5 4.8 5 out of stars

My mood ticket on this juice

For this first test of the Black Series range from Pack à l'Ô, here I am reconciled with a notion that I have long found contradictory: that of gourmet tobacco. Former smoker, I enjoyed "pure" tobacco for a long time when I was still only vaping this type of juice, we have to believe that we are evolving and that the designers of juices are finding ever more tasty recipes, without spoiling this particular taste of tobacco and by mastering some of its less pleasant aspects.

This is really what Pack à l'Ô achieved with this Almond Caramel Blend, a chef's grub, for a result that should satisfy a lot of us. The top Juice that I inflict without moderation on this juice is deserved in my opinion for ethical reasons, fundamental to the very existence of the vape, those that we should not lose sight of, which have allowed and will allow thousands of people to quit smoking, without stressing or even laughing. So I can't wait to let you know the second issue of the siblings, I'm getting down to it.

See you soon and have a great vape.

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About the Author

58 years old, carpenter, 35 years old of tobacco stopped dead on my first day of vaping, December 26, 2013, on an e-Vod. I vape most of the time in mecha / dripper and make my juices ... thanks to the preparations of the pros.