I bought some Gravestone , devils breath and my all day vape JACK THE RIPPER.... Friggin delicious!!! My new all day vape!!!
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When I first bought mine it was awful I let it steep for more than a month and it became simply brilliant.
For once my taste buds have to disagree with yours @Silver. As I remembered DF it had quite a pronounced dark chocolate taste. V1 more so than V2. Loaded it (V2) in the Reo Mini with RM2 at 0.77 ohms about half an hour ago to check again. I definitely taste it as a smooth dark milk chocolate and not a white creamy chocolate. And quite up front, not just in the background. In equal measure with the mint. Going back in this thread I see at least one other post mentioning it as a dark chocolate, the others just saying chocolate. Will be interesting to hear how others experience it.Hi all
This is my first review of a VooDoo Juice. For those that don't know, VooDoo is a local juice brand created by @Zeki Hilmi in Cape Town. He puts a lot of passion into it.
Some background. A juice I am very familiar with is VM's Choc Mint. It has pretty much been permanently loaded in one of my Reos for more than a year. I like it a lot but the chocolate in it has an artificial taste. So I add VM Coffee concentrate and have been vaping that concoction for many months. I was very interested to try out a new local Choc Mint juice. So I bought a 30ml bottle of Dark Forrest a few months ago. I got the 12mg version and I paid R140 at VapeClub. The juice says 60/40 on the bottle. I assume it means 60% VG, since it doesn't feel like 60% PG to me. Perhaps Zeki can confirm. I have been vaping it for the past two weeks.
VooDoo Vapour - DARK FORREST (12mg)
Bottom line - a lovely minty juice with a tad of white chocolate. Silky with a premium feel and very smooth. I just felt I wanted a bit more chocolate. Good quality juice but for my palette, not my preferred Choc Mint vape. Enjoyed vaping it but probably will not re-order.
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The juice has a darkish orangey colour and it smells lovely. Has a great minty chocolate smell.
On the vape I initially get a fresh minty taste. Then a very mild chocolate in the background. The flavours are quite subtle, not in your face. The mint is not strong but it does increase quite nicely on longer drags. It's a plain mint and not overpowering. Just the right amount for a soothing kind of vape. The chocolate is very mild and is a white chocolate to my palette. Not dark and rich, rather subtle. It tastes nice.
It's not very sweet and has a medium wetness. I find it's more of a coolish flavour. It is mostly natural tasting but I did find on my first vape and occasionally thereafter that there was a slight synthetic/artifical tone coming through. It was more prominent on Rayon than cotton so it could be the way my taste buds interprets this on Rayon. Almost a slight sterileness to it. But it went away after a while and was hardly noticeable on cotton wicks.
I found the throat hit quite low. It was a 12mg version and I usually like to review on 18mg. Also, the 60% VG I suspect softened it. The positive is that it's a nice soothing vape. I enjoyed this in the mornings when I typically need a milder vape. Vapour production was good.
I liked the texture of the vape a lot. It's smooth and silky. Feels premium. To me it's more of a mellow vape, not a bold one. Therefore it has good all day vapability, combined with the mild flavours and lowish throat hit.
The juice vaped very well in my equipment. I used two Reos. (RM2 and Nuppin) No problems. I preferred organic cotton to Rayon for this juice. I found the Rayon accentuated that synthetic taste and also boosted the mint a bit, dimming out the chocolate. The organic cotton gave me a more balanced flavour and I preferred that.
I tried it on the Nuppin lung-hit style and on the RM2 mouth-to-lung style. I liked them both and it was difficult to choose a clear winner. On the Nuppin I got a bit more mint and a more minty aftertaste. The chocolate was less. But I enjoyed the smoothness of the juice in lung hit mode. Nice and soothing.
The aftertaste of this juice is very good. I get a tasty chocolate flavour lingering for a while and it's very pleasant. Almost more so than on the vape itself.
Not many negatives from me for this juice. Perhaps I would have liked a bit more chocolate to come through. And the occasional artificial tone did detract slightly. Oh, I nearly forgot, a negative for me is that the bottle requires a pipette or syringe to fill with.
Overall I would say this is a good juice for subtle mindless vaping if you like something mildly minty with a dash of chocolate in the background.
As for comparing against Vapour Mountain's Choc Mint, here are the differences:
VM Choc Mint has a slight artificial taste of its chocolate, which I combat by adding VM's Coffee concentrate. Although Dark Forrest is nice I still prefer my "VM Choc Mint Coffee" concoction. They are a bit different though.
- Dark Forrest is more minty and less chocolaty. It's not as rich or as strongly flavoured as VM Choc Mint.
- Dark Forrest has a white chocolate taste whereas VM's Choc Mint is more of a milk chocolate (normal chocolate taste)
As for comparing to another international juice - 5 Pawns Bowdens Mate. Well these two local Choc Mints are very different and I feel not really comparable. Bowdens is masterful in its complexity and has several other flavours in it. Totally different taste.
Packaging:
- Decent packaging - dark glass bottle with a simple to remove screw cap.
- Labelling is good and the PG/VG ratio is on there. I just don't know whether its PG/VG or VG/PG
- Downside is there is no nozzle so you have to use a pipette or a syringe to extract the juice and fill your device. Just don't knock the bottle over when you take off the cap.
- The cap is not of the "child deterrent" variety
Equipment used:
- REO Grand/RM2 - single 0.9 ohm coil - Rayon and organic cotton wicks - (15 to 19 Watts, depending on battery level)
- REO Grand/Nuppin1 - dual 0.55 ohm coil - Rayon wicks - (26 to 32 Watts, depending on battery level)
For once my taste buds have to disagree with yours @Silver. As I remembered DF it had quite a pronounced dark chocolate taste. V1 more so than V2. Loaded it (V2) in the Reo Mini with RM2 at 0.77 ohms about half an hour ago to check again. I definitely taste it as a smooth dark milk chocolate and not a white creamy chocolate. And quite up front, not just in the background. In equal measure with the mint. Going back in this thread I see at least one other post mentioning it as a dark chocolate, the others just saying chocolate. Will be interesting to hear how others experience it.
Yip, the mixmaster changed the chocolate base at some stage to a smoother chocolate. Think @Yusuf Cape Vaper refers to it somewhere in this thread. Of course, V1 no longer made.Thanks for the feedback @Andre
Its probably just my calibration of milk vs white chocolate with vaping VM's Choc Mint so much. I think its because the flavours in VM Choc Mint are stronger so maybe I perceive the chocolate in VooDoo Dark Forrest to be more muted.
What is the V1 and V2 you refer to? Are there different versions of the juice?
Yip, the mixmaster changed the chocolate base at some stage to a smoother chocolate. Think @Yusuf Cape Vaper refers to it somewhere in this thread. Of course, V1 no longer made.
@Silver it is possible it is the V1. I changed the chocolates as the darker chocolates are not wicking and coil friendly. Also I thought the V2 had a smoother taste and more authentic.
Thanks @Yusuf Cape Vaper for the review. @Silver can you move this thread to the appropriate place.
So I popped into @Zeki Hilmi's place last week, and he made me wait about 30mins before he even got home. He was busy working at his new mixing lab. Big up's to the vendors who are now investing large sums of money into professional clean room facilities.
Anyway, the reason I went was to buy a bottle of Miss Daisy's. She is described as a warm Pecan Nut Cream-pie, with wads of cream and what I can describe as a honey or maple syrup topping. Once again, Zeki lived up to the hype of his liquids as this juice really, really, blew me away! I haven't tested it at low power, because I Vaped the bottle up before I even got to really putting it through its paces. The juice is smooth, creamy, saucy, and has the perfect amount of sweetness to it. I Vaped it at around 95w, and I just couldn't put the bottle down. Well done again @Zeki Hilmi on this marvelous creation! See you at the vape meet on Saturday!
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