e-Liquid Review: Graporade from Solomons Clouds
Good afternoon folks! Today, I’m taking a look at the first of many flavours from the Solomon’s Clouds eliquid range.
If you’ve not heard of them before, Solomon’s Clouds hail from WA, and it’s early beginnings were born from necessity on site in the Pilbara.
As always, within a close group and community, different people take on different roles, and resident “juice maker” was handed down to Solomon’s Clouds creator, when the previous position moved on to different pastures.
Supporting his fellow vapers through their journey to quit the cigarettes is one of Gary’s proudest acheivements, and so Solomon’s Clouds was born.
Solomon’s Clouds e-liquids are all manufactured by Clouded Visions in their ISO 7 purpose built laboratory, from top notch ingredients, so you can be sure you’re getting the best product possible.
Today, I’ll be reviewing “Graporade” from Solomons Clouds.
(This eliquid was supplied by the vendor for review.)
Flavour Description
[From the website]
Graporade has been the bane of our juice chefs existence, resulting in many sleepless nights over the past year. After much experimentation and many litres of juice so bad it’ll make your hair fall out, we present to you Graporade (version 70.3). A mix between grape lollies and everyones favourite post bender purple drink, this grape flavour won’t make your hair fall out (we promise)
The Review
The hunt for the perfect Grape continues. I still haven’t found it, many others I know still haven’t found it. It’s as elusive as each of our flavour preferences is different. The holy grail of grape, just like the “Ultimate Custard” or the perfect “Coffee flavour” is likely unobtainable, but I’ll keep trying!
This one is close, it’s a bit of a hybrid, not quite Grape Juice, and not quite Hubba Bubba, you’ll likely familiarise it with a Grape Gatorade, but it’s also not quite exactly that either.
What I can tell you however, that it absolutely is a grape, there are realistic tones throughout this sweet sugary grape, that ground it and make it so.
“Graporade, is a bubblegum, a juice, an energy drink, all the while retaining a realistic grape tone throughout, to create a juicy Grape hybrid.”
Individual Notes
Theres actually a lot going on in this one, it’s like Solomon’s have taken every type of grape they could get their hands on, and delicately work each in with the other to create a complex flavour that is both versatile and multi-faceted.
I notice a very candy grape in here as the main strong note, it’s sweet, sugary, and with that, juicy. One of those flavours that screams “remember me from your childhood?”, but that’s not all this flavour is…
A grape juice also comes through the candy, with a bit of an energy drink feel to it, not sickly sweet, but that general sharper almost sour undertone you’ll easily recognise.
There’s a bit of a realistic grape here also. Not overbearing, but occurs in a moment during the exhale. More a grape “flesh” sort of tone without the skin, and something you might just easily miss in all that is going on.
Wine Gums. Yep, you’ve had them, those Jube, or Jelly Candy sweets you pick up thinking that they’ll be absolutely sweet, but then you realise they have that gummy almost vegetable gum note to them. You chew for ages trying to break those wine gummies down only to be left with them stuck in your teeth for what seems like forever! Yes, you know the ones. That’s in here too.
Inhale & Exhale
On the inhale, I notice mostly a Grape candy, sweet and juicy with that succulent sugary feel to it. It’s that same sweetness you get from a Grape hard candy or a grape drink that feels like it’s dehydrating you just enough that you really need to pop another in your mouth, or neck the entire bottle because it goes down so easily.
As the inhale continues, the sweetness abates a little and sharpens up. A light tartness comes through as you reach the top of the inhale, as you also then taste a gumminess appearing.
As the inhale turns to the exhale, that wine gum taste rides over the sugary sweetness temporarily changing the texture, and triggering a realistic grape flesh note.
This gummy yet realistic grape flesh note carries on a little, until that candy sweetness and juiciness reappear to finish up the end of the exhale.
Final thoughts
I was actually quite surprised by this flavour. I was expecting to be vaping a fairly basic and singular flavour, instead I’ve been treated to a grape that runs the full gamut of textures and flavour ranges. From sweet candy to realistic grape, and even wine gums, this flavour keeps your taste-buds begging for more, and is blended superbly, not allowing one profile to overtake the whole flavour.
I’m also very impressed that as sweet as this flavour is, it hasn’t gunked my coils very quickly. I have no idea how they’ve done it but not having to change wicks out after 1/2 a day of vaping a juice this sweet is a godsend.
If you’re a grape lover, you’ll dig the different notes that come through in this one, even better if you like your candies and wine gums, because I think those are this flavour’s strong points. Conversely, if you’re not so keen on wine gums or gumminess in e-liquids, this might ruin it for you, but honestly, you should give it a crack anyway, you might just grow to like them!
Great work guys, I can’t wait to try the chilled version of this next!!!
Where to Buy:
You can purchase this flavour directly from the Solomon’s Clouds online store or from one of their stockists like Juice Cartel, Cloud Chaos, and Clouded Visions.
Colour:
Clear
Aroma:
Grape bubblegum
Coil and wick damage:
Minimal damage to wicks or coils
PG/VG Ratio:
80VG/20PG
Texture:
Sweet and juicy grape juice
Steeping:
No steeping necessary
Presentation:
The whole Solomon’s Clouds range has a very professional presentation. I received 60ml Chubby Gorilla bottles, with tamper proof seals and child proof caps. The bottles are dark tinted with black caps and needle tip dispensers.
On the label you have Solomon’ s Clouds and the flavour name prominently displayed front and centre, with matching colour band, and a bunch of other information. PG/VG ratio, bottle size, flavour profile, Lab information, website url, Ingredients and barcode. I noticed that there are no warnings at all on the label besides “This product contains zero nicotine”.
What is on the label, which I really love, is a scale that shows how much juice you have left in the bottle up to one of the inside edges where the label doesn’t quite meet together. A popular spot to hold your bottle up to the light to see how much is left is made that much more useful with a scale that goes through “Refill”, 1/4, “Half”, 3/4, and “Full” stages.
A very cool idea!
Test rigs:
Original Haku Cruiser running a single 0.17 framed staple coil on a mech mod.
Augvape Intake RTA with a 0.2ohm Stainless coil running @ approx 50-80 watts.
Bonza RDA with x2 Framed Stapled coils (0.2 ohm-ish)
Rating overview
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