Characteristics of the juice tested
- Sponsor having lent material for the review: Flavor Art
- Price of the tested packaging: 5.50 Euros
- Quantity: 10 Ml
- Price per ml: 0.55 Euros
- Price per liter: 550 Euros
- Juice category according to the price per ml previously calculated: Entry level, up to 0.60 euro per ml
- Nicotine dosage: 4.5 Mg / Ml
- Proportion of Vegetable Glycerin: 40%
Packing
- Presence of a box: No
- Are the materials making up the box recyclable ?:
- 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
- Wholesale PG-VG proportions display on label: Yes
- Wholesale nicotine dosage display on the label: Yes
Steamer note for packaging: 3.77 / 5 
Comments on the packaging
The Tuscan Reserve is an offshoot of the classic Flavor Art range, around fifteen references dedicated to the world of tobacco.
This e-liquid is without sugar, protein, GMO, diacetyl, preservative, sweetener, coloring, gluten or alcohol. A pledge of healthiness affirmed loud and clear by the brand whose concern to offer safe liquids to its customers is well known and its involvement in the financing of various studies.
Composed of a ratio of 50% PG, 40% VG, the remaining 10% is divided between the aromas, distilled water and nicotine. Tuscan Reserve is available in four different nicotine levels: 0, 4.5, 9 and 18mg / ml.
The packaging, as it is today since it will evolve in the weeks to come, is quite practical. We have a PET bottle that is undoubtedly insufficiently flexible to be really comfortable with difficult filling and a rather original stopper / dropper assembly since the stopper does not separate from the bottle. The tip is quite thin even if the presence of the cap may interfere with feeding some atomizers.
With a price of 5.50 €, we are at the entry level. The tariff corresponds to the target heart of the manufacturer: the first-vapers and, by extension, the intermediaries not wishing to change the type of vape.
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: No
- Presence of distilled water: Yes.
- 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): 4.63 / 5 
Comments on the security, legal, health and religious aspects
Everything is in conformity here even if it is undoubtedly missing one or two pictograms (pregnant women, prohibition to minors) to be compatible with the PDT in its smallest details within a few weeks.
Child safety is different from that usually used. It consists of pressing on both sides of the cap to allow it to be unlocked. The system, although little used elsewhere, works and does what it is intended to do.
The name of the laboratory and a telephone number complete the range to ensure seamless transparency. Some information is at the limit of visibility but this is the current fate of 10ml bottles overloaded with information. Of course, the famous instructions are missing, which will be mandatory in the near future, but I suspect that the manufacturer already has the corresponding future batches in their boxes.
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 
Comments on the packaging
The packaging is traditional. If we except the stopper / dropper unit, which will no doubt disappear in the next batches, nothing exceptional distinguishes this bottle from the entire production at this level of the range.
The manufacturer's logo covers the label, overlying an illustration relating to the product name, which name appears roughly within the image. Nothing very artistic here but just a simple bottle that is neither exceptional nor unworthy and announces the color of an entry-level liquid.
About color, that of the cap varies depending on the level of nicotine. Green for 0, light blue for 4.5, dark blue for 9, and red for 18.
Sensory appreciations
- Color and product name agree ?: Yes
- Do the smell and the name of the product agree ?: Yes
- Definition of odor: Resin, Tobacco Cigar
- Definition of taste: Tobacco
- The taste and the name of the product, do they agree ?: No
- Did I like this juice ?: No
- This liquid reminds me: Nothing special
Vapelier's note on the sensory experience: 2.5/5 
Comments on the taste of the juice
The Tuscan cigar is an Italian specialty considered to be a very “manly” cigar and ultimately far removed from Cuban puros, which are finer and more aromatic. We would therefore have thought that the Italian manufacturer, acting in familiar territory, gave us an exact reading of this cigarillo.
Unfortunately, if the Tuscan Reserve is correct in absolute terms, it lacks character to assert itself at the height of its model. The tobacco is deep, well marked but has a lack of strength that brings it closer to a Cuban than an Italian.
In addition, the manufacturer has added a slight vanilla twist which further softens the recipe, certainly making it more consensual but moving it a little further from its reference. Too soft, too devoid of brutality, the Tuscan Reserve will vaporize better in the cozy lounges of the Rotary Club than on a horse in the desert like Clint Eastwood in “The good, the bad and the ugly” which helped so much. to the popularization of this cigarillo.
The vapor is very dense for the ratio and the sustained hit. But in conclusion, if the juice is not bad in itself, it is more like a sweet cigarillo than a cigar from Tuscany and this is where a certain inconsistency has its source and takes away the interest in the liquid.
Tasting recommendations
- Recommended power for optimal taste: 36 W
- Type of vapor obtained at this power: Dense
- Hit type obtained at this power: Strong
- Atomizer used for the review: Narda, Origen V2Mk2
- Value of the resistance of the atomizer in question: 0.7
- Materials used with the atomizer: Stainless steel, Cotton
Comments and recommendations for an optimal tasting
Even if it does not balk at increasing power or temperature, the Tuscan Reserve retains its roundness and relative softness. He will be more comfortable in a tight clearomizer rather than in a dripper or a reconstructable device that will highlight his shortcomings.
Remains a steam still amazing compared to the percentage of vegetable glycerin and seems to be the hallmark of this range tobacco.
Recommended Moments
- Recommended Moments of the Day: End of lunch / dinner with a coffee, End of lunch / dinner with a digestive, Early evening to relax with a drink
- Can this juice be recommended as an All Day Vape: No
Overall average (excluding packaging) of the Vapelier for this juice: 3.63 / 5 
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My mood ticket on this juice
Although quite conceivable for beginners who will find in this juice an effective derivative from the brown cigarettes or cigarillos they previously smoked, the Tuscan Reserve misses its point a little.
Where we could expect a strong and brutal e-liquid, we come across a pleasant rather aromatic cigar which, if it does not become bad for all that, does not sufficiently illustrate the primal savagery of its element of reference.
So, good and ugly, of course, but the bad must have been stuck in the elevator ...
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