Characteristics of the juice tested
- Sponsor having lent material for the review: The Vaporium
- Price of the tested packaging: 24.00 €
- Quantity: 60 ml
- Price per ml: 0.40 €
- Price per liter: 400 €
- Juice category according to the price per ml previously calculated: Entry level, up to 0.60 € / ml
- Nicotine dosage: 0 mg / ml
- Proportion of vegetable glycerin: 60%
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
There are roughly three types of liquids in the vape.
Those who make bad liquids and from time to time a less bad one. Let's be realistic, there are fewer and fewer of them. The benefit of more than ten years of research in terms of both healthiness and taste. Today, and it is fortunate, a bad juice is rare, rarer than a good one.
The peloton of manufacturers who produce good liquids and, from time to time, excellent ones. They are the most numerous on the French market and are firing on all cylinders to offer consumers real quality. Sometimes they step on each other a little, drawing inspiration from each other from generic or commercially promising recipes, but that's no big deal, there's something for everyone.
Finally, there are the leaders. Those who, whatever they do, manage to surprise, sometimes disturb, upset the established order. Modern alchemists who don't hesitate to take risks or high-level flavourists who emulate a simple flavor to perfection. With them, there is something excellent, something exceptional and, sometimes, because they are human, something “simple” very good. We are among the chefs, the real ones!
At this level, I see two. Pulp because their entire range is a variation of flavors that are always surprisingly realistic and Le Vaporium which, following in the footsteps of pioneers who have unfortunately become too confidential such as Esenses/Atelier Nuages or Claude Henaux, continues tirelessly to invent, combine, assemble , to fetch the smallest spark of unexplored taste.
Some are destined to join them, such as Moonshiners or Berk Research, but it takes time to develop a complete catalog.
Coming back to the Vaporium, today we are testing L'Esprit de l'Escalier, a gourmet tobacco. Available in 30 ml for €12.00 or in 60 ml for €24.00, this liquid is assembled on a 100% vegetable base, very fashionable and theoretically healthier, in 40/60 PG/VG.
For the 60 ml version, it will be necessary to extend the overdosed aroma in order to obtain 80 ml in the end. Of course, you can do more, the aromatic power allows, but the manufacturer advises this result. So, two boosters, 1 booster and 10 ml of neutral base, 20 ml of neutral base... it's according to your desires and needs.
The Spirit of the Staircase is what we regret not having said during a casual discussion when it is over. It's this fantastic repartee that comes to us much too late, when we're already on the starting stairs… I'm lucky, in writing I'm less likely to forget anything. 🙄
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
No liquidator can exist if he does not subscribe to the legal and security obligations. The Vaporium knows this and applies the desiderata of the Holy Inquisition to the letter.
L'Esprit de l'Escalier is designed by Le Vaporium and made by Toutatis, a devilish combo from Aquitaine and a working duo.
The brand informs us of the presence of furaneol, a compound of natural origin very used in the vape and elsewhere in order to warn the very few people who could be allergic to it.
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
Sober, informative and nevertheless very graphic, the packaging seduces with its visual halfway between the alchemical potion with the list of aromas like a Prévert inventory and a dark and worked background evoking nature.
It's original, not putassier and nevertheless attractive.
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 the smell: Sweet, Blond Tobacco, Oriental Tobacco
- Definition of taste: Sweet, Vanilla, Nut, Fruit, 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 still a rare liquid that is offered to us here. A juice with drawers that only reveals itself little by little, as the puffs pass.
Knowing that it is a gourmet tobacco, it comes quickly. Going around the many nuances is much longer and it will require a palate broken with discipline even if everyone will be able to like this nectar.
Above all, there is a blend of tobaccos, so complex to grasp and so simple to love. More blonde than brown, it reveals a very worked Virgina, a subtle but present Oriental and a palette of underlying notes which, little by little, make their way and impose themselves in the mouth.
A touch of caramel here, a hint of spice there, a reminiscence of vanilla that comes and goes, a hint of nuts, perhaps walnuts, an attack with pear compote in the background. Complexity reigns but the observation is very simple. It is a magic liquid, very addictive, complete in taste and whose recipe is more about quantum physics than simple assembly.
An equation that hits the mark, alternately tobacco and perfectly gourmet, without excess sugar. Just a few touches of subtlety to express the essence of Nicot grass.
Tasting recommendations
- Recommended power for optimal taste: 26 W
- Type of vapor obtained at this power: Thick
- Hit type obtained at this power: Medium
- Atomizer used for the review: Aspire Nautilus 3²²
- Value of the resistance of the atomizer in question: 0.30 Ω
- Materials used with the atomizer: Cotton, Mesh
Comments and recommendations for an optimal tasting
To consume as you wish but often. Moreover, once tested, it will be difficult for you to do without it. On a simple and precise clearomiser, it's already very good but on a top-coil with a little temperature and air, it's exceptional.
To vape all the holy day and even during non-holy days, at any time. In duet with a coffee, a tea, a chocolate, a white or amber alcohol, it's as you wish. Or in lonely, selfish pleasure because you are worth it.
Recommended Moments
- Recommended times of the day: Morning, Morning - coffee breakfast, Morning - chocolate breakfast, Morning - tea breakfast, Aperitif, End of lunch / dinner with coffee, End of lunch / dinner with a digestif, All after noon 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: 4.59 / 5 
My mood ticket on this juice
What a slap!
The Spirit of the Staircase is one of those juices that restores faith in humanity. An immediate gustatory obviousness which however only reveals itself completely during a long tasting.
A rare liquid, sumptuous and long in the mouth, tobacco above all but so subtle that it becomes totally addictive. The ideal prototype for the election of the juice of the year in the category.
For now, it's a Top Juice and I invite you to test it so you don't miss out on one of the major attractions of 2022.
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