Flavour profile
A red velvet cookie, which in baking means a mild cocoa sponge with a cream cheese or buttercream layer, and here means a cookie doing the same job. Ultimate's own prose says only a luxurious and rich blend of red velvet cookies, which is a description that describes very little.
The sellers are more used to it, and they broadly agree on the shape: a cookie base, something creamy, and chocolate behind it. They disagree on every particular. The cream is buttercream in one account, a smooth layer of icing in another, creamy red velvet flavouring in a third and just deliciously creamy in a fourth. The chocolate is milk chocolate in two, velvety chocolate in one, plain chocolate in another. The base is cookie dough in one and buttery baked cookies in another.
Read it as the cookie version of a red velvet cake. Mild cocoa rather than dark chocolate, and the cream is the point rather than a garnish.
The maker's own page contradicts itself
This is the sharpest disagreement in the new arrivals, and it is worth knowing before you buy. Ultimate's structured flavour tags for this product list blackcurrant and strawberry alongside cake, chocolate, cookie and cream. Their own prose on the same page mentions no fruit at all, and not one of the four retailer descriptions mentions any fruit either.
So the maker's tags and the maker's sentence do not match, and every independent account sides with the sentence. The honest position is that a berry note may be in there, that nobody describes tasting one, and that you should not buy this expecting fruit.
What you are actually buying
A full 120ml bottle, pre-nicotined at the strength you order. Nothing to add and nothing to wait for.
In Britain, Ultimate sell this as 100ml of 0mg liquid in a 120ml bottle, leaving 20ml for two nicotine shots. One seller spells out the arithmetic: two 10ml shots at 18mg turn it into 120ml at 3mg. Here, that has already been done.
VG/PG and the device it suits
Seventy VG, thirty PG, sub-ohm, stated by Ultimate and by four sellers. One shop's spec block is internally contradictory on this and can be disregarded.
Like the other bakery flavours, this improves with a device that can deliver real power, because cocoa and baked notes read flat when they are underdriven. A VAPORESSO Armour Max Mod Kit 220W Dual Battery or any capable mod suits it better than a small pod device.
Choosing 3mg, 6mg, 12mg or 18mg
Three and six on a sub-ohm coil, decided by the coil rather than the flavour.
Cocoa carries its own slight bitterness, which hides a nicotine edge and makes higher strengths feel smoother than they are. That is a reason to be careful rather than a reason to go up. No Red Velvet salt is stocked here; Chocolate Orange Ultimate Salts Cookies 30ml is the Cookies salt on this shelf at 50mg.
Practical notes
Chocolate is the most persistent flavour in this range, in a coil and on a palate. Give it its own tank rather than alternating with fruit, which will taste of cocoa afterwards and not pleasantly.
No menthol, koolada or cooling agent is listed, and several sellers state outright that there is none.
Where it sits in the Ultimate range
The second flavour in the Cookies sub-range here, joining Chocolate Orange Ultimate Puff Cookies 120ml. Chocolate Orange is the heavier and more assertive of the two; this is the milder cocoa with cream in front of it.
Across the desserts, Whipped Vanilla Ultimate Puff Custard 120ml is the plain cream, Apple Strudel Ultimate Puff Custard 120ml the baked fruit, and the Shakes flavours the lightest. This sits nearer the cream end than the Chocolate Orange does.
Buying and delivery
The milder of the two cookie flavours, and the one to try if Chocolate Orange was too much. 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
- Mild cocoa cookie under a cream or icing layer
- The gentler of the two cookie flavours
- Keep it in its own tank; chocolate lingers
- Uncooled, and stated as such by several sellers
- The maker tags fruit that nobody reports tasting
Specifications
- Category: E-Liquids
- Flavour profile: Mild cocoa cookie with a cream or icing layer
- Flavour tags, as published by Ultimate: Blackcurrant, cake, chocolate, cookie, cream, strawberry. The fruit tags are contradicted by Ultimate's own prose and by every retailer
- Cooling: No, uncooled
- Salt counterpart: None stocked. Chocolate Orange Ultimate Salts Cookies 30ml is the Cookies salt on this shelf
- 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
- Unsettled detail: The creamy element is described as buttercream, icing or unspecified cream by four different sellers, and the chocolate as milk, velvety or plain
