Classic Salt by Taffe-elec

Characteristics of the juice tested

• Sponsor having lent material for the review: Puff-elec
• Price of the tested packaging: 3.90 €
• Quantity: 10 ml
• Price per ml: 0.39 Euros
• Price per liter: 390 Euros
• Juice category according to the price per ml previously calculated: Entry level, up to 0.60 € / ml
• Nicotine dosage: 3 mg / ml
• Proportion of vegetable glycerin: 30%

Packing

• Presence of a box: No
• Presence of a tamper-evident seal: Yes
• Bottle material: Flexible plastic, usable for filling, if the bottle is fitted with a mouthpiece
• Cork equipment: Nothing
• Tip Feature: Fine
• Name of the juice wholesale on the label: Yes
• Display of PG / VG proportions in bulk on the label: Yes
• Wholesale nicotine dosage display on the label: Yes

Vapelier's note for packaging: 3.77 / 5

Comments on the packaging

Nicotine salts, we can now quantify, have marked a real turning point in the understanding of vaping intended for beginners. Softer in the throat, faster assimilation, they allow easier smoking cessation by delivering useful levels of nicotine with marked vaping comfort.

It is therefore essential, especially in this period, that each manufacturer's catalog can offer it in such a way as to reach the 13 million smokers who remain to be converted. Taffe-elec understood this well and included this variable in its liquid equation.

3 references currently appear in the range. 3 tobaccos taken from the brand's best-selling recipes. Today we are going to decipher the Classic.

This comes to us in a 10 ml bottle, which is mandatory for a pre-nicotine e-liquid. It is priced at €3.90, thus continuing a low price policy emanating from Taffe-elec's desire for vaping to be available to everyone. As an indication, the amount generally observed for a competing liquid in the same category ranges between €5.90 and €6.90!

The manufacturer has chosen not to use a white label, that is to say to rebadge pre-existing recipes in their name. All liquids are therefore specifically developed in collaboration with partner laboratories. The most of the whole range? Avoid sucralose, a synthetic sweetener for which doubts remain regarding its harmfulness. This demonstrates a real desire to do well, the only thing that is discount at Taffe-elec is the price.

Our Classic is available in 10 and 20 mg/ml nicotine. It is based on a 70/30 PG/VG base, ideal for facing MTL pods and is therefore aimed at first-time beginners but also at experienced users who want an instant “nicotine punch” at certain times of their day.

We have already reviewed the Classic in our pages. Also, the part devoted to taste will not be different. But it seemed important to us to focus on a liquid whose purpose is not quite the same.

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: Yes
• 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

As usual, there is nothing to complain about! Everything here exudes legality, security and transparency. Blessed bread for consumers and a total scourge for detractors of vaping!

The brand informs of the presence of alcohol in the composition. Nothing surprising about that and above all nothing abnormal.

Appreciation of the packaging

• Do the graphic design of the label and the name of the product 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

It’s a nice adaptation of the packaging common to the entire range to which we are entitled here. If the pastel color of the background disappears, it gives way to a beautiful solid black on which tobacco leaves stand out.

It's still just as elegant, just as sober, the two often being linked, and the information, on and under the label, is still just as clear. Hat !

Sensory appreciations

• Is the color and the name of the product in agreement? Yes
• Do the smell and the name of the product agree? Yes
• Definition of odor: Blond Tobacco
• Definition of taste: Tobacco
• Are the taste and the name of the product in agreement? Yes
• Did I like this juice? Yes

Vapelier's note on the sensory experience: 5/5

Comments on the taste of the juice

It is not in taste that the Classic will sin, which does not surprise me because the more I delve into the mysteries of the range, the more I discover nuggets worthy of interest.

Here we have a blond tobacco that seems to come from a very ripe and very sunny Virginia. The taste is powerful and sweet at the same time. The power is manifested by a fairly marked hit for nicotine salts, here dosed at 10 mg/ml, the sweetness by very pleasant and realistic earthy and hay notes.

It is not very sweet and yet not harsh. This second paradox ostensibly comes from the quality of the main aroma. Thus, we can guess the manufacturer's desire to make a very consensual blond tobacco that is suitable for all-day use.

And it works ! It even works better because the recipe, devilishly balanced, can be vaped as desired without ever being boring.

There are a large number of tobaccos known in vaping in this style of execution but the Classic stands out by adding a good dose of character to its relative neutrality. And that's good, life is already complicated enough these days without vaping tasteless stuff!

Tasting recommendations

• Recommended power for optimal taste: 16 W
• Type of steam obtained at this power: Normal
• Type of hit obtained at this power: Strong
• Atomizer used for the review: Aspire Flexus Stick 
• Value of the resistance of the atomizer in question: 0.8 Ω
• Materials used with the atomizer: Cotton, Mesh

Comments and recommendations for an optimal tasting

Given the fluidity of the liquid, it is important to combine it with suitable equipment. An MTL pod will do the job perfectly to carry the nuances, intense and sweet at the same time, of this tobacco.

This one is an all–day by nature, never boring. He appears comfortable in all situations.

Recommended Moments

• Recommended times of the day: Morning, Morning - coffee breakfast, Morning - chocolate breakfast, Morning - tea breakfast, Aperitif, End of lunch / dinner with coffee, All afternoon during everyone's activities, Early evening to relax with a drink, Late 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: 4.59 / 5

My mood ticket on this juice

For once, it's a strike!

The transition from the Classic, which had already made a strong impression on us in its released nicotine version, to a version with nicotine salts, is completely successful.

We lose neither the taste, nor the interest, nor the adaptability nor even the hit! On the contrary, we win a Top Vapelier because balance being a rare thing, it should be distinguished!

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