eLiquid Review 287: FAQ – Funky Monkey from Apollo Ecigs

eLiquid Review 287: FAQ – Funky Monkey from Apollo Ecigs

I’ve got something sweet and fruity for you guys today. It’s not what you would expect from the flavour description, but awesome never-the-less!

Today I’ll be reviewing “Funky Monkey” from the FAQ range of eliquids!

This juice was supplied by the vendor.

From the website:

Funky Monkey is sweet strawberry mixed with ripe and creamy banana, with a touch of kiwi.

The Review:

There’s something amiss with the description of this juice. It’s not that this flavour’s description is wrong, but the interpretation of it will lead you to think of a creamier, perhaps more banana orientated juice.

I originally thought, it would be primary banana, with strawberry and kiwi highlights, but it is actually the other way around!

“Funky Monkey” is a sweet, and bright fruity mix of sharp strawberry and kiwi, with a light rounded undertone of banana cream.

Individual Notes

The strawberry and kiwi work really well together with their shared tartiness.

The strawberry provides more of the floral, earthy fruit. It’s a mix of both candy and realistic strawberry, that provides the majority of the sweetness for this flavour.

The kiwi, not overly noticeable, adds a little bit of a seedy yet clean tartness, providing even more of a sharpness to counter the banana undertones.

The banana is a background note, thickening the mix up, with it’s creaminess and rounding this juice out into a lovely smooth vape.

Inhale & Exhale

The strawberry and kiwi are the most dominant on the inhale, introducing you with a bunch of natural fruity sweetness.
They are tart, and help provide the tall, sharper aspects to this juice.

At the turn of the inhale and onto the exhale, the strawberry and kiwi intensify in not only sweetness but tartness also, almost getting to a sour point, before the smooth velvety banana cream kicks in rounding things out with it’s ripeness and low notes.

The end of the exhale is thick and full bodied with sweet strawberry high points supported by the smooth and silky banana cream finishing up the vape.

Final thoughts

Not an overly complicated mix, but it works really well. There is something about the mixing of the three fruits, that sort of creates its very own distinct flavour.

Very fruit salad-esque, this one is brilliant for summer with it’s bright fruits and ability to keep you interested even during those sweltering hot summer days.

Nice work guys, a good solid fruit mix!

Where to Buy:

You can pick this flavour up directly from Apollo’s website (http://www.apolloecigs.com) or from one of their many stockists.

Colour:

Honey tint

Aroma:

Strawberry / Banana

Coil and wick damage:

Minimal coil or wick damage

PG/VG Ratio:

Max VG Ready to vape

Texture:

Full bodied, sweet and fruity

Steeping:

Great straight away, but will get even better with a steep.

Presentation:

This was supplied in a smokey grey glass 30ml dropper bottle, with glass dropper.
The labels are really professional and have this cool reflective, almost foil print on them. Of course with name and logo front and centre, with all of the information on them you’ll ever need. In fact, there are a tonne of warnings and even the flavour description printed on the labels, which I find quite handy!

Test rigs:

Hadaly RDA with single SS coil @ 0.3 ohms on a bottom feed mod.
HAKU RDA with single SS316L coil @ 0.29ohms on a regulated mod running 50-80 watts.

 

Rating overview

  • Flavour Accuracy
    8/10
  • Vape Quality
    8/10
  • Personal Rating
    8/10
  • Flavour Intensity
    8/10
Total score
High Quality 8
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Shane Presser has been vaping since 2013, and has extensive experience with advanced equipment, coil builds and DIY mixing. He is the man behind VapersGarage, and also more recently Aussie Vape Stores, a resource to help vapers find their nearest Vape Shops, and eLiquid Vendors.

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