Flavour profile
Watermelon and cherry with a candy sweetness over both. Ultimate describe the watermelon as juicy and the cherry as sweet and tangy, which quietly makes the cherry the sharper of the two, and say the two together create a candy-like sweetness.
Retailers read the balance differently. One insists the sweetness is balanced between both fruits without either overpowering the other. Another describes the fruits as layered, with the candy notes sitting on top rather than mixed through. Those are different claims about the structure of the same liquid, and the maker's own wording, tangy against juicy, points to contrast rather than balance.
This is the best-documented flavour of the new Candy Drops arrivals, which is worth something. It is also the one where independent-looking descriptions turn out to be the same distributor copy on two different shops, so the apparent weight of agreement is thinner than it looks.
What you are actually buying
A full 120ml bottle, pre-nicotined at the strength you order. No nicotine shot in the box, no headroom to fill, no steeping.
Ultimate sell these in Britain as 100ml of 0mg liquid in a 120ml bottle, with the last 20ml left for two nicotine shots the buyer adds. It is the same flavour sold in a different format, and a UK listing will describe work that has already been done for you here.
VG/PG and the device it suits
Seventy VG, thirty PG, sub-ohm. That ratio is published by Ultimate for the whole range and corroborated by most sellers.
Watermelon is a light, high note that thins out when it is overdriven, and cherry is one of the flavours that turns medicinal when a coil is pushed too hard. Both point the same way: run this lower than you think you need to. A mod with real wattage control such as a VOOPOO Drag S2 is worth more here than on a heavier dessert.
Choosing 3mg, 6mg, 12mg or 18mg
Three and six are the sub-ohm strengths, and the reason is the coil rather than the flavour. A low-resistance coil vaporises a lot of liquid quickly, and the nicotine has to answer to that.
Twelve and eighteen suit tighter, higher-resistance coils. If the aim is a real nicotine hit in a pod kit, Watermelon and Cherry Ultimate Salts Candy Drops 30ml carries the same flavour at 50mg on a 50/50 base.
Practical notes
A sweetened fruit liquid will shorten coil life, and this one is sweetened by design. When the fruit starts reading as caramel, the coil has gone, not the bottle.
The refreshing in Ultimate's copy describes watermelon rather than a cooling sensation.
Where it sits in the Ultimate range
The only watermelon in Candy Drops, and one of two cherries on this shelf; the other is Cherry Ultimate Puff Sherbet 120ml, which is fizzy, whereas this is sugary.
The nearest existing watermelon is Watermelon Apple Ultimate Puff Chilled 120ml, which is chilled and paired with apple rather than cherry, so the two are less alike than the shared fruit suggests. On the salt shelf, Watermelon and Apple Ultimate Salts Chilled 30ml covers the same ground at 50mg.
Buying and delivery
The only watermelon in the Candy Drops line and the sweeter of the two new cherries. Nairobi addresses get it the same day from Vapesoko Nairobi, nearby towns get it on early dispatch, and the rest of Kenya gets it in 1 to 2 business days.
Best for
- Juicy watermelon with a tangy cherry against it
- The only watermelon in the Candy Drops line
- Uncooled, unlike the Chilled watermelon
- A 50mg salt version exists for pod kits
- Cherry turns medicinal when overdriven, so run it low
Specifications
- Category: E-Liquids
- Flavour profile: Juicy watermelon with a sweet, tangy cherry and candy sugar over both
- Cooling: Uncooled
- Salt counterpart: Watermelon and Cherry 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
- Balance: Ultimate implies contrast, juicy against tangy; one retailer asserts the two fruits are balanced. Unsettled
