Apple by The Flavor Apprentice (TFA)
Supplier: BLCK Flavours
Review Date: May 30, 2025
🔬 Testing Setup
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RDA: Hellvape Hellbeast
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Coils: Dual Old Goat aliens @ 0.1 ohm
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Wattage: 60W
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Wick: Fresh OneCloud cotton
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Steep Time: 5 days
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Base Ratio: 70VG/30PG
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Nicotine: 3 mg/ml
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Testing Percentage: 3%
🐐 Aroma (Raw Sniff)
Classic apple — clean, sweet, and unpretentious. Smells like the inside of a juice box or a farmer’s market sample table. No perfume, no fuss.
Flavor Profile (In Vape)
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Inhale: Crisp, sweet apple — no sharp edges, no candy shell.
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Exhale: Smooth and juicy, with just a hint of natural skin.
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Aftertaste: Mild and refreshing, like a polite apple that says thank you.
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Sweetness: Mid-range. Sweet enough to feel ripe, not so sweet it trips over itself.
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Off-notes: None worth bleating about.
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Mouthfeel: Light and clean. No syrup, no goo.
Label Accuracy:
It’s called Apple, and guess what — it tastes like an apple. Not green, not tart, not baked. Just a fresh, simple, no-drama apple. Doesn’t promise Fuji or Gala or Granny, and that’s fine. Sometimes you just need a good, solid fruit that doesn’t try to steal the show.
Accuracy Rating: 9/10
Standalone Usability:
Holds its own as a solo fruit. No bells, no whistles, but it doesn’t need ‘em. Works well for clean fruit vapes or quick-and-dirty juice stand mixes.
Standalone Rating: 7.5/10
Mixing Versatility:
A mixer’s apple. Slot it into fruits, bakeries, desserts, or cocktails and it won’t put up a fight. It’s not going to add magic or sparkle, but it will add clarity and structure — which is more useful than it sounds when your pie needs a backbone or your cider needs a core.
Versatility Rating: 8/10
🐐 Overall Goat Score:
8/10
Not flashy, not fancy, but utterly dependable. Like that one goat in the herd who never gets stuck in the fence or kicks over the feed bucket. A good worker — keep it around for when your fancier apples start acting up.
Where to Buy
Available from BLCK Flavours, the orchard of choice for South African mixologists and flavor fiends alike.