Flavour profile
Strawberry and melon, with the melon carrying the sweet-shop character. Ultimate describe it as sweet strawberry and refreshing melon with a candy-like sweetness, applying the candy to the blend rather than to either fruit.
Retailers split on that point. The fullest description puts the candy squarely on the melon, calling it sugary and candy-like melon against juicy strawberries. Another drops the candy from the melon altogether and describes a ripe, smooth melon finish behind an intense strawberry. So the strawberry is agreed; what the melon is doing is not.
Read it as a confectionery pairing rather than two fruits off a stall. That is what the Candy Drops name is for, and both fruits here are common enough in Kenya that the sugared version is a real departure from the fresh one.
The one thing sources do not agree on
One UK seller's copy describes cool melon. Every other source, Ultimate included, calls the melon refreshing, sugary or smooth, and not one of them names menthol, koolada or ice anywhere on the page.
The most likely reading is that cool is doing ordinary work there, the way cool describes a honeydew rather than a cooling agent. But it stands alone, so this page will not tell you the liquid is iced and will not tell you it is definitively uncooled. If a cold finish is what you want, Ultimate's On Ice and Chilled lines are built for it, and this is in neither.
What you are actually buying
A full 120ml bottle, pre-nicotined at the strength you order. Nothing to add, nothing to wait for, and no nicotine shot in the box.
Ultimate sell this in Britain as 100ml of 0mg liquid in a 120ml bottle, with the last 20ml left for the buyer to fill. Same recipe, entirely different purchase. If you have read a UK listing, the work it describes has already been done here.
VG/PG and the device it suits
Seventy VG, thirty PG, sub-ohm, which is the ratio Ultimate publishes across the range.
Melon is a quiet note, and the first thing lost when a coil runs hotter than the liquid wants. If you find the strawberry has taken over entirely, drop the wattage before changing anything else. A VOOPOO Drag S2 or any mod with proper wattage control has that room; a fixed-output device does not.
Choosing 3mg, 6mg, 12mg or 18mg
Three and six for a sub-ohm coil. The coil decides this, not the flavour: a low-resistance coil turns a great deal of liquid into vapour per second, and the strength has to answer to that.
Twelve and eighteen belong on tighter, higher-resistance coils. For this profile at pod-kit strength, Strawberry Melon Ultimate Salts Candy Drops 30ml is the same flavour at 50mg on a 50/50 base, and that is the right product rather than this one pushed up the scale.
Practical notes
Candy liquids are hard on coils, and this one names candy in its own description. A coil that starts tasting of burnt sugar is telling you it is done, and on a sweet bottle that arrives sooner than it does on a plain fruit.
It is not aiming for fresh.
Where it sits in the Ultimate range
The only melon anywhere in the Ultimate Puff line, and the only strawberry in Candy Drops. Grape and Strawberry Ultimate Puff Candy Drops 120ml is the nearest neighbour in the sub-range and shares the strawberry.
Across the wider shelf, Strawberry Pom Ultimate Puff Chilled 120ml is the cooled strawberry and Watermelon Apple Ultimate Puff Chilled 120ml the cooled melon-adjacent option, so if the chill is what you are after, those two already exist and are built for it.
Buying and delivery
The only melon on the Ultimate Puff shelf, and a sugared one. Nairobi addresses see it the same day from Vapesoko Nairobi, nearby towns on an early dispatch, and the rest of Kenya in 1 to 2 business days.
Best for
- Sweet strawberry with a candied melon behind it
- The only melon in the Ultimate Puff line
- Sugar-shop sweet, not fresh fruit
- A 50mg salt version exists for pod kits
- One source calls the melon cool; the rest do not
Specifications
- Category: E-Liquids
- Flavour profile: Sweet strawberry with a candied melon
- Cooling: Not established. No source names a cooling agent, but one retailer describes the melon as cool. Ultimate's iced flavours are in the separate On Ice and Chilled lines
- Salt counterpart: Strawberry Melon Ultimate Salts Candy Drops 30ml at 50mg
- Bottle size: 120ml, a full bottle, not a part-filled one
- Nicotine strengths: 3mg, 6mg, 12mg and 18mg
- Nicotine type: Freebase
- VG/PG ratio: 70% VG / 30% PG
- Shortfill: No, supplied pre-mixed at the strength you order
- Nicotine shot required: No
- Steeping required: No, ready to vape
- Device suitability: Sub-ohm tanks, pod mods and vape mods at 3mg and 6mg
- Draw style: Direct-to-lung at 3mg and 6mg; restricted or mouth-to-lung at 12mg and 18mg
- Childproof cap: Yes
- Tamper-evident seal: Yes
- Manufacture: Made in Coventry, United Kingdom
- Format: Produced to order pre-nicotined. The published UK bottle is 100ml of 0mg liquid in a 120ml bottle
- Where the candy sits: Ultimate apply it to the blend; retailers disagree, one putting it on the melon and one leaving it off entirely
