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Afternoon all! a quick cut-n-paste again of a review I've just posted to my blog. Please do click on through using the link below if you want to read this in a much nicer format with final rating, or just to peruse other reviews I've added recently too.
https://peegorevapes.wordpress.com/2020/01/15/vgod-cubano/
If not, just keep on reading!
It’s been over a year since I tried a new Tobacco e-liquid. As I recall the last few I really enjoyed were Havana Nights from the Boss range at Apollo E-cigs and the Indigéne range from Manabush.
Admittedly the Indigéne liquids were more challenging flavour-wise for me, but over time my palate came to appreciate the very bold and strong tobaccos and supporting flavours ( Fig, Rose etc ) in their mixes.
But I don’t always want to be challenging and testing my tastebuds. Most of the time I just want to relax and enjoy a juice whilst disengaging my brain. This is why I loved Havana Nights, and why VGOD Cubano is my new Havana.
CUBANO
Mixed at 20% ( suggested 20% )
Mixed at 75vg / 25pg, 3mg and 50 / 50 16mg nic salts
Steeped for 6 weeks
Priced at £9.99 for 30ml concentrate at time of review
THE most important point I’ll make in this review is – STEEP YOUR CUBANO!
When I cracked-open the concentrate, my first olfactory impression was “Custardy”
After mixing and leaving to steep, I tested Cubano at one week intervals. Over the first three weeks the tobacco flavourings were very loud, very sharp. The tobacco had a bold honey-floral taste that reminded me very much of the honey and rose in another one of their liquids, Baklava. Also, the vanilla had a little too much ‘bite’ to enjoy properly.
I subsequently left it to one side for a couple more weeks steeping.
After a month the honey florals had mellowed substantially and the cigar tobacco leaf had finally started to come through. Very promising at this point, fairly vapeable.
Now, Cubano is at six weeks steep, and to my taste it is finally there!
The whole mix has lost all of it’s rougher and spikey edges, and the amount of flavour re-balancing in the last fourteen days is quite outstanding.
Cubano’s star of the show is quite rightly the Cigar Tobacco Leaf. Plenty of so-called tobacco liquids taste more biscuity than anything else. Here though we have something that, although not overly strong, carries a natural and slightly earthy, slightly woody taste akin to a freshly rolled and roasted tobacco leaf.
This is enhanced further by layering in hints of the honey and florals I first detected weeks ago. It is this complex mix of notes that justifies this as a nuanced Cigar vape and not a simplistic tobacco.
Cubano’s lovely ‘realistic’ Cigar flavouring is balanced particularly well against the other main flavour in here; creamy Vanilla Custard. The vanilla originally had a bit of a sharp tang to it in the beginning, but again this has calmed down to something much more mellow and sympathetic to the woodiness of the cigar. As for the custard itself? Well, let’s just say it’s so luxuriously creamy it pushes Cubano into the realms of being a dessert style juice without ever distracting too much from why your here. The Cigar.
Cubano, in the end, is a tobacco custard. It’s smooth and well blended. It’s complex without seeming to be complex. It’s not too tobacco-y or too custard-y. Oh, and it’s not too sweet either.
It’s the sign of mixing at it’s best.
https://peegorevapes.wordpress.com/2020/01/15/vgod-cubano/
If not, just keep on reading!
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It’s been over a year since I tried a new Tobacco e-liquid. As I recall the last few I really enjoyed were Havana Nights from the Boss range at Apollo E-cigs and the Indigéne range from Manabush.
Admittedly the Indigéne liquids were more challenging flavour-wise for me, but over time my palate came to appreciate the very bold and strong tobaccos and supporting flavours ( Fig, Rose etc ) in their mixes.
But I don’t always want to be challenging and testing my tastebuds. Most of the time I just want to relax and enjoy a juice whilst disengaging my brain. This is why I loved Havana Nights, and why VGOD Cubano is my new Havana.
CUBANO
Mixed at 20% ( suggested 20% )
Mixed at 75vg / 25pg, 3mg and 50 / 50 16mg nic salts
Steeped for 6 weeks
Priced at £9.99 for 30ml concentrate at time of review
THE most important point I’ll make in this review is – STEEP YOUR CUBANO!
When I cracked-open the concentrate, my first olfactory impression was “Custardy”
After mixing and leaving to steep, I tested Cubano at one week intervals. Over the first three weeks the tobacco flavourings were very loud, very sharp. The tobacco had a bold honey-floral taste that reminded me very much of the honey and rose in another one of their liquids, Baklava. Also, the vanilla had a little too much ‘bite’ to enjoy properly.
I subsequently left it to one side for a couple more weeks steeping.
After a month the honey florals had mellowed substantially and the cigar tobacco leaf had finally started to come through. Very promising at this point, fairly vapeable.
Now, Cubano is at six weeks steep, and to my taste it is finally there!
The whole mix has lost all of it’s rougher and spikey edges, and the amount of flavour re-balancing in the last fourteen days is quite outstanding.
Cubano’s star of the show is quite rightly the Cigar Tobacco Leaf. Plenty of so-called tobacco liquids taste more biscuity than anything else. Here though we have something that, although not overly strong, carries a natural and slightly earthy, slightly woody taste akin to a freshly rolled and roasted tobacco leaf.
This is enhanced further by layering in hints of the honey and florals I first detected weeks ago. It is this complex mix of notes that justifies this as a nuanced Cigar vape and not a simplistic tobacco.
Cubano’s lovely ‘realistic’ Cigar flavouring is balanced particularly well against the other main flavour in here; creamy Vanilla Custard. The vanilla originally had a bit of a sharp tang to it in the beginning, but again this has calmed down to something much more mellow and sympathetic to the woodiness of the cigar. As for the custard itself? Well, let’s just say it’s so luxuriously creamy it pushes Cubano into the realms of being a dessert style juice without ever distracting too much from why your here. The Cigar.
Cubano, in the end, is a tobacco custard. It’s smooth and well blended. It’s complex without seeming to be complex. It’s not too tobacco-y or too custard-y. Oh, and it’s not too sweet either.
It’s the sign of mixing at it’s best.
