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Apple Cinnamon (Dark Story range) by Alfaliquid
Apple Cinnamon (Dark Story range) by Alfaliquid

Apple Cinnamon (Dark Story range) by Alfaliquid

Characteristics of the juice tested

  • Sponsor having lent material for the review: Alfaliquid
  • Price of the tested packaging: 12.90 Euros
  • Quantity: 20 Ml
  • Price per ml: 0.65 Euros
  • Price per liter: 650 Euros
  • Juice category according to price per ml previously calculated: Mid-range, from 0.61 to 0.75 euro ml
  • Nicotine dosage: 6 Mg / Ml
  • Proportion of Vegetable Glycerin: 50%

Packing

  • Presence of a box: No
  • Are the materials making up the box recyclable ?:
  • 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: Thick
  • Name of the juice wholesale on the label: Yes
  • Display of PG-VG proportions in bulk on the label: No
  • Wholesale nicotine dosage display on the label: Yes

Steamer note for packaging: 3.39 / 5 3.4 5 out of stars

Comments on the packaging

Alfaliquid, one of the oldest French brands, is entering premium liquids with the “Dark Story” range. Presented in a tinted glass bottle with a capacity of 20ml, equipped with a glass pipette.
Alfaliquid has chosen to respect the codes of this level of the range. The different recipes offered in this range are not all new. These are recipes from the classic range improved and adapted to the ratio PG / VG 50/50. Today meeting with Apple Cinnamon. This recipe, present in the catalog of other manufacturers, means that there will necessarily be points of comparison. Does Alfaliquid give us a clone recipe or an original blend?

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: Yes. Be careful if you are sensitive to this substance
  • Presence of distilled water: No
  • Presence of essential oils: No
  • Compliance HIDE: No, and I'll tell you why lower
  • 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): 4.63 / 5 4.6 5 out of stars

Comments on the security, legal, health and religious aspects

Alfaliquid as dean on the French market has extensive experience in the areas grouped under the banner of compliance. So no surprise everything is on top. Only the presence of alcohol slightly lowers the note. However, it should be noted that alcohol and vegetable glycerin are both stamped organic. The presence of alcohol means that this liquid may not be suitable for people of Muslim faith due to the restrictions that this religion imposes, and of course those that the presence of this substance bothers.

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

So at first I admit that the still life label seemed a bit old-fashioned to me. Indeed, a very red apple in the “Snow White” style, a small oxidized metal seal containing cinnamon sticks, all on a rustic wooden table in a country-style setting, it's boatload as possible. But after tasting, I changed my mind and I recognize that this illustration is totally in agreement with the flavors offered by Alfaliquid. So in the end it's perfect and the 5/5 is deserved, not for originality but for flavor / visual consistency.

Sensory appreciations

  • Color and product name agree ?: No
  • Do the smell and the name of the product agree ?: Yes
  • Definition of smell: Fruity, Sweet, Oriental (Spicy)
  • Definition of flavor: Sweet, Spicy (oriental), Fruit
  • The taste and the name of the product, do they agree ?: Yes
  • Did I like this juice ?: Yes
  • This liquid reminds me: The flavor of the apple in a good raw cider.

Vapelier's note on the sensory experience: 3.75/5 3.8 5 out of stars

Comments on the taste of the juice

Apple and cinnamon. Nothing very original since the recipe was not only seen in competing ranges, but in addition the apple cinnamon combination is almost ultra conventional. So why taste this juice you tell me?
In fact, even if this recipe is super classic, Alfaliquid had the intelligence to turn to a raw fruit. Indeed the apple aroma is fruit oriented, for me the taste is that of apple in a good cider. We have the sweet fruity side of the fruit and the slightly bitter side of the skin. The sweet but very present cinnamon gives relief to the fruit and brings hit to the juice. You now understand why the terroir side of the label sticks perfectly to the juice.

Tasting recommendations

  • Recommended power for optimal taste: 18 W
  • Type of vapor obtained at this power: Dense
  • Hit type obtained at this power: Medium
  • Atomizer used for the review: Subtank
  • Value of the resistance of the atomizer in question: 0.6
  • Materials used with the atomizer: Kantal, Cotton

Comments and recommendations for an optimal tasting

Do not turn this apple into a compote, stay at a reasonable value around 20 watts. This juice will adapt to a majority of atomizers (clearo, reconstructable ...) in view of its PG / VG ratio

Recommended Moments

  • Recommended times of the day: Morning, Morning - tea breakfast, End of lunch / dinner with a digestif, All afternoon during everyone's activities, 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: 3.92 / 5 3.9 5 out of stars

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My mood ticket on this juice

Like everyone else I have my preconceptions, and I must admit that I had some about Alfaliquid. For me this brand remained the brand with which I had started. A great brand flooding the market with its mono-flavors and that I quickly put aside.
So when I got this Apple Cinnamon liquid I said to myself ok, they are changing the presentation, the PG / VG ratio to make it premium. But if it is marketing and as sometimes with some big brands, the recipe will not be successful.
In addition, at one time I loved the cinnamon apple from Green Vapes and so I had in mind a kind of clone not really original.
But not at all, Alfaliquid serves us a totally different recipe. Lighter, more authentic and more subtle, the apple here is reminiscent of the taste of raw fruit in sweet cider with the little bitterness given to the skin. The cinnamon heats up and spices the mixture. So at the beginning as I had in mind the GV juice I said to myself it's strange and not very tasty. But in fact it's just more authentic and less aromatic. What makes this juice much less disgusting than its competitor.
The PG / VG ratio makes it suitable for a majority of vapers regardless of their equipment.
It's an all day possible for apple lovers.
In short, a very nice surprise, a simple recipe, which does not shine by its originality (apple cinnamon is already seen), but which is distinguished by the choice of more natural and more authentic flavors.

Thank you Alfaliquid

Good luck, Vince

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Present since the beginning of the adventure I do in the juice and stuff always keeping in mind that we all started a day. I always put myself in the skin of the consumer by carefully avoiding not falling into the geek attitude.