Characteristics of the juice tested
- Sponsor having lent material for the review: V'APE
- Price of the tested packaging: 6.50 €
- Quantity: 10ml
- Price per ml: 0.65 €
- Price per liter: 650 €
- Juice category according to price per ml previously calculated: Mid-range, from 0.61 to 0.75 € ml
- Nicotine dosage: 10mg / ml (Nicotine salts)
- Proportion of Vegetable Glycerin: 50%
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
- 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
Vapelier's note for packaging: 3.77 / 5 
Comments on the packaging
Mainly confined to ever more powerful equipment and aerial atomizers that consume large amounts of juice, the vape has moved away from the needs of first-time vapers who have nothing to do with annoying those around them, simply wanting to stop smoking .
While we are seeing a comeback in tight vaping MTL atomizers, the intrinsic increase in nicotine quantity is not “The” one size fits all solution.
The transition from the “cigarette” to the vapote causes in its beginnings - through the fault of the deposit left and the irritation of the throat - a discomfort that only a more modest rate can overcome.
The ecosystem's response lies in the development of e-liquids with nicotine salts having the particularity of being softer in the throat and being assimilated more quickly by the body.
Like many of its competitors, V'ape in addition to more conventional ranges and after more than a year of R&D, offers us recipes with nicotine salts.
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Mounted on an 60 / 40 basis of PG / VG, Mint Salt is available in different levels of the addictive substance.
Unlike the majority of other manufacturers offering 10 and 20mg / ml (maximum allowed by the TPD), V'ape also diffuses 15mg / ml, a completely relevant intermediate.
Obviously, packaged in 10 ml, in transparent recycled plastic bottles, the vials are fitted with a very fine filling tip allowing the supply of all atomizers but also refillable pods.
The price generally found at resellers and on the brand's website is € 6,50.
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 
Comments on the security, legal, health and religious aspects
Like many references produced on French soil, there is no diacetyl, acetoin or acetyl propionyl in the flavors. V'ape also tells us that it does not add distilled water or alcohol in the preparation of potions.
The various regulatory requirements are perfectly affixed to inform the conso-vapoteurs.
The brand's research has finally made it possible to use lactic acid instead of the usually used benzoic acid, which crystallizes current criticisms and questions.
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 line with the price category: Could do better for the price
Vapelier's note regarding packaging with regard to juice category: 4.17 / 5 
Comments on the packaging
The ape, chimpanzee mascot of V'ape, proudly stands on a labeling combining sobriety and rigor.
If the large amount of information and other mandatory pictograms combined with the size of the format limits creative expression, I nevertheless admit to being on the reserve. To explain it rationally is not easy, certainly because of this famous subjectivity of taste ...
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: Mint, Peppermint
- Definition of taste: Menthol, peppermint
- The taste and the name of the product, are they in agreement? Yes
- Did I like this juice? I won't splurge on it
- This liquid reminds me of:
Vapelier's note on the sensory experience: 4.38/5 
Comments on the taste of the juice
Certainly from the cross of spearmint and peppermint, the potion brings the expected sensations.
With a medium intensity, like its aromatic power, the recipe is an ideal compromise to satisfy lovers of the herbaceous plant. Those most inclined to freshness will have a sensation deficit because at the usual power values for nicotine salts, it will not be icy.
Nevertheless, the positioning of the range indicates a rather “generalist” juice and in these conditions the Mint Salt V'ape perfectly fulfills its role.
If the hit of menthol is usually sustained, even without addictive substance, we find these characteristics here. The rate is, I remind you at 15mg / ml, while the sensation in the throat is at a level between the usual 3 or 6mg / ml.
Tasting recommendations
- Recommended power for optimal taste: 15W
- Type of steam obtained at this power: Normal (type T2)
- Hit type obtained at this power: Medium
- Atomizer used for the review: Hobbit Rda, PockeX & Melo 4
- Value of the resistance of the atomizer in question: 1.3, 0.6 & 0.7Ω
- Materials used with the atomizer: Kanthal, Cotton
Comments and recommendations for an optimal tasting
A vape in a double coil dripper at 40W confirms to me that this is not a mint at a discount and that the nicotine salts are indeed assimilated much faster.
The time to let go down the “dose” and the use of a more appropriate material validates the use of pods or starters-kits, in the absence of atomizers capable of vaping at a value around the ohm and powers remaining under the 15W.
Recommended Moments
- Recommended times of the day: Morning, All afternoon during everyone's activities, Early evening to relax with a drink, Late evening with or without herbal tea, Night for insomniacs
- Can this juice be recommended as an All Day Vape: Yes
Overall average (excluding packaging) of the Vapelier for this juice: 4.38 / 5 
My mood ticket on this juice
The recent craze for tight-draft materials with much more modest powers reminds us that this vape is the best way to stop smoked tobacco.
Personally, I have always struggled with this technique forcing us to vape like shisha smokers and consume liquid as much as an old American from the sixties. I love to vape on a dripper and some juices are better appreciated in direct vape but having the choice is still more opportune than being forced to.
The MTL vape has remained available all these years but the “best-atos” in this category are generally exchanged for rather elitist prices.
The vape of 2018 does not go back. No, it is rather a comeback, with the lessons and experience of the past. The devices offered in recent months are at moderate prices, in any case accessible to all those who wish to join the sphere of this health revolution that is vaping.
In terms of e-liquids, manufacturers have followed the same path. Nicotine salt brings to this day a solution that could not be more relevant and is able to convert many smokers, even the most addicted to nicotine.
“Young” brand of the circle of potions creators, V'ape has, in addition to its more conventional ranges, a collection of nicotine salts.
Menthe Salt, a pretext for this evaluation, is a recipe that perfectly fulfills the role assigned to it, with a significant addictive substance, while preserving a smooth throat.
The brand displays great transparency in the preparation and production of its e-liquids and its prices are in line with the available market offer.
Here are many arguments which can only encourage to take the step towards more salubrity.
See you soon for new hazy adventures,
Marquolive.
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