Flavour profile
There is barely any acidity to watermelon and not much body either, which explains why nearly every watermelon on this shelf comes chilled. The ice sits in the finish (a touch, a breeze), and the fruit reads watery-sweet, never candied.
It is the fresh treatment of the fruit, and the Sour slate carries the candied one in Watermelon Bubblegum ELFBAR Trio Sour Disposable Vape 40000 Puffs. The two Sour-slate blends that also use watermelon keep it fresh, so the split is between this and the bubblegum specifically.
The three dials on the lightest fruit here
A light fruit shows an adjustment faster than a heavy one, and this is the flavour on the Sweet Slate where the dials are most audible. At the bottom you have fruit with a faint edge; at the top the cold is the event, and the melon is behind it.
That range on one device is the whole argument for buying a Trio over a fixed-ice bar, and this is the flavour that demonstrates it most plainly.
One fruit, two treatments, one on each slate
The Sour slate carries Watermelon Bubblegum ELFBAR Trio Sour Disposable Vape 40000 Puffs, where the watermelon is candied and paired with gum. This is the fresh version. Same fruit, same range, two genuinely different products, and it is one of the clearer distinctions inside the twenty.
Outside the Trio, that exact label recurs on Watermelon Ice ELFBAR Ice King Disposable Vape 30000 Puffs and Watermelon Ice ELFBAR Ice King Pro Disposable Vape 40000 Puffs.
What ELFBAR publishes about the Trio
No battery figure, and this is the field to be most careful with. The figure that circulates most, 850mAh, is the battery in ELFBAR’s older Ice King 30000; 1000 and 1800 also circulate. With no manufacturer figure to correct them against, nothing here quotes one at all.
Practical notes
Watermelon is one of the most widely grown fruits in Kenya, and among the most profitable to irrigate, so this is a flavour a buyer here can hold directly against the real thing at almost any time of year. The vape reads cleaner and colder than the fruit, and rounder too, which is what the format does to any fresh crop.
Living with 40,000 puffs
Twenty millilitres is the figure most often quoted here, with eighteen an occasional outlier. ELFBAR publish neither figure, and none for the Ice King Pro, which suggests a field the brand leaves out across this puff count, making it policy and not an oversight.
Where it sits in the range
The lightest flavour on the Sweet slate, against Grape Ice ELFBAR Trio Sweet Disposable Vape 40000 Puffs at the bold end. For melon with company, the Sour slate pairs it with berry and two other fruits. See all twenty in the ELFBAR Trio 40000 range.
Buying considerations
One for a hot afternoon, and the safest of the twenty to pass to someone picking at random. Same day inside Nairobi and the towns bordering it from Vapesoko Nairobi, and 1 to 2 business days by courier for everywhere else in Kenya.
Best for
- Watery and clean, never candied
- The ice is a finish, not the lead
- The flavour that shows the dials fastest
- A commercial Kenyan crop year-round
- The fresh answer to the candied bubblegum
Specifications
- Category: Disposable Vapes
- Flavour family: Single fruit
- Cooling in the liquid: Yes, named in the flavour
- Base character: Watery-sweet, with the chill treated as a finish
- Same name elsewhere on the shelf: Yes, the Ice King 30000 and the Ice King Pro 40000
- Suggested dial settings (our recommendation): Icy mid to high; a light fruit carries cold well
- Puff rating: Up to 40,000 (manufacturer rating)
- Nicotine strength: 50mg/ml (5%) nicotine salt, as declared on the carton
- NIC control: Three levels, adjusted on the device. It changes nicotine intensity; the liquid itself is filled at 50mg/ml. ELFBAR publish no figure for what each level delivers
- Who it is for: Adult smokers and vapers, 18+. Not suitable for non-smokers.
- Rechargeable: Yes, over USB Type-C
- Battery capacity: 1000mAh (carton)
- Dimensions: 106.3 × 28.2 × 51.2 mm (carton)
- Turbo mode: Yes, marked on the device. ELFBAR publish no rating for it
- Ingredients: Vegetable glycerin, propylene glycol, natural and artificial flavours, nicotine
- Once opened: ELFBAR advise using the device within 15 days
- Adjustable dials: Three, at three levels each: nicotine, icy and sweet. This is the Sweet edition, which has no sour control
- Refillable: No, sealed device
- Figures ELFBAR do not publish: E-liquid capacity, coil type and resistance, charging time, charging input rating, weight, wattage, airflow adjustment, what the Turbo mode is rated at, and any description of any of the twenty flavours. Retailers widely list 20ml of liquid, but no ELFBAR source states a number.
- Display: A smart screen with a puff counter, per ELFBAR’s European storefront; absent from their global site
- Brand: ELFBAR
- Range: Trio 40000
- Sold as: A sealed international-market disposable. The format is not permitted for retail in the UK or the EU
