10Features 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
If you have a few minutes, I urge you to visit the V'APE website and check out their “V'APE History” section. Far from the usual agreed texts and rather killjoy, the cryptic message of the sign will better inform us about the origin of “its” mascot: the Ape.
The already rich catalog of several ranges and various taste variations was recently completed with a new collection with nicotine salts. Today, we are going to focus more particularly on the Red Fruits recipe.
Recall, in a nutshell, the interests of nicotine salt.
Nicotine, beyond the “dose” it brings to the body will produce a hit effect in the throat. This sensation, assimilated by our brain since we one day decided to swallow the smoke of our cigarettes, will cause a tightening of the larynx. Only, when vaping, a high dosage of nicotine “scratches” the bottom of the oral cavity and the discomfort is obvious for many first-time vapers.
Nicotine salt is an ecosystem response, a solution that has continued to develop over the course of 2018. Based on the use of an acid coupled with nicotine, it makes it possible to provide the power but to soften the hit and the passage in throat. Thus, this is the way to obtain high nicotine levels, able to satisfy new vapers with significant addictive substance needs, ultimately allowing effective weaning.
Our Red Fruits V'ape Salt is mounted on a classic 50/50 PG / VG base, in a 10 ml vial of transparent recycled plastic for a price of € 6,50 at the brand's retailers or on the website of the sign.
The values of nicotine salts are 10, 15 or 20mg / ml, the maximum allowed by the TPD (European regulation legislating vaping products).
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
It is flawless, our protocol is fully informed on all points.
The brand also informs us that its aromas are guaranteed without diacetyl, acetoin and acetyl propionyl. There is also no addition of water, alcohol or colorants in the V'ape formulations.
Since vaping is a recent and constantly growing industry, questions - legitimate - arise with each development and nicotine salt is no exception.
Criticized by some, V'ape's answer lies in more than a year of R&D and the development of a formulation of e-liquids with nicotine salts using lactic acid instead of the benzoic acid used. usually and which is debated as to its safety. So vapers enjoy the smoothness of nicotine salts vape without the potential dangers of benzoic acid.
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
Sober, the realization is correct notwithstanding a substantial amount of information to be affixed. Therefore, there is not much room for creativity and V'ape is doing well.
The bottle is flexible enough to be used without special effort and it should be noted the dropper (filling tip) very thin to adapt to all atomization devices, including pods.
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: Fruity
- Definition of taste: Fruit
- The taste and the name of the product, are they in agreement? Yes
- Did I like this juice? Yes
- This liquid reminds me of:
Vapelier's note on the sensory experience: 5/5
Comments on the taste of the juice
The flavor is simple, classic and basic. Remember that the juice nicotine salts are intended, first, to beginners in the vape.
The “Red Fruits” is an accessible, sweet and slightly sweet potion. Deciphering the different flavors is a real challenge because the aromas, well balanced, fit together perfectly so that none really dominates.
The aromatic power is modest - as usual - on the juices of this category but sufficient because it is a reference where we feel that indeed, it is dosed in addictive substance.
The hit is related to the goal, namely present but not insistent.
Logically, the passage in throat is softer and goes with the fruity recipe of this declination.
The volume of steam expelled is in line with the PG / VG ratio displayed even if this is not the potion that we will be asking from the cloud.
Tasting recommendations
- Recommended power for optimal taste: 15W
- Type of steam obtained at this power: Normal (T2 type)
- Hit type obtained at this power: Medium
- Atomizer used for the review: Dripper Hobbit, PockeX & Melo 4
- Value of the resistance of the atomizer in question: 1.3, 0.6, 0.5Ω
- Materials used with the atomizer: Kanthal, Cotton
Comments and recommendations for an optimal tasting
The interest of nicotine salt is to be able to vape at a lower power and to satisfy the needs of the consumer.
I still “pushed” a bit to check the behavior of the potion at higher potency and I had to validate the fact that it ultimately does not change much.
Recommended Moments
- Recommended times of the day: Morning, Aperitif, 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: 4.59 / 5 
My mood ticket on this juice
In recent years, the equipment has continued to evolve and increase the available power of batteries with ever more aerial atomizers and ever greater volumes of vapors expelled.
If this vapor corresponds to the vapers who have followed the evolution since its inception, it is clear that it does not necessarily satisfy newcomers in the vaping universe.
In recent months, we have witnessed a comeback of a more “reasonable” material, making it possible to ensure a vape that the many anglicisms in vaping call: the MTL vape.
These initials define the term “Mouth to Lungˮ, which means“ from mouth to lung ”and designates the fact of keeping the vapor in the mouth before drawing it into the lungs.
Synonymous with indirect inhaling vape or tight vape, it simply corresponds to a method similar to our ex-smoking habits.
Nicotine salts e-liquids are the ecosystem's answer to be in perfect harmony with these atomization devices.
However, this new addictive substance is debated and its harmlessness has not been demonstrated.
V'ape has been particularly invested in the field and after more than a year in R&D, offers us potions with nicotine salts that do not contain benzoic acid but lactic acid for more safety on our health.
The brand, already present on the market with more conventional ranges, offers us a collection of four flavors with nicotine salts.
The “Red Fruits”, a pretext for this evaluation, is the first opus that I evaluate and it starts with a Top Juice.
Why this distinction? Quite simply because the recipe is correct and comparable to many others on the market, but above all to salute the initiative of a company which did not content itself with ensuring its sales with elements that already exist. The investment is far from negligible and V'ape is committed to a process to make “our” vape as “safe” as possible.
On the strength of this observation, the action could only obtain a distinction, admittedly modest, but well deserved.
See you soon for new hazy adventures,
Marquolive.
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