Cherry Ice Vape

What sits on the cherry ice shelf

The boundary is narrow and worth stating plainly: cherry has to lead, and there has to be a cooling agent in the mix. Eight IVG products meet both conditions. Remove either half and the product belongs somewhere else, which is why this shelf is smaller than the Cherry Vape range it sits inside and much smaller than the Ice Vape shelf it also belongs to.

Two of the eight are bottled liquid. The IVG Shortfill 70/30 Frozen Cherries E-Liquid is a 120ml bottle holding 100ml of nicotine-free liquid at a 70/30 VG/PG ratio, and the IVG Original 50/50 Frozen Cherries E-Liquid is a 10ml bottle listed in 3mg, 6mg and 12mg. Three are prefilled pods that assume the matching hardware is already yours: the IVG SAVR Cherry Ice Refill Pod, the IVG PRO 10K Cherry Ice Prefilled Pod and the IVG SMART MAX Frozen Cherry Refill Pod. The last three include a device: the IVG Reload Mini Cherry Ice Vape Kit, the IVG PRO 10K Cherry Ice Vape Kit and the IVG SMART MAX Frozen Cherry Vape Kit.

Three flavour names for one idea is untidy, and IVG has not tidied it. Cherry Ice is the pod and device naming, used on the SAVR pod, the Reload Mini and both PRO items. Frozen Cherries, plural, is the bottled e-liquid naming. Frozen Cherry, singular, belongs to the SMART MAX pair. None of that is a coolant measurement. Anyone treating "Frozen" as the colder of the two words will be wrong in one direction or the other, depending on which pair they compare.

What is deliberately absent matters as much as what is present. Cherry without a cooling note is not here. That sits on the wider cherry range, alongside the fizzy cherry treatments, which reach for a sharp carbonated tingle instead of cold to stop the fruit turning syrupy. Those two approaches are worth understanding as siblings rather than rivals: fizz works on the tip of the tongue as a prickle and fades quickly, while cold spreads across the whole mouth and hangs around after the exhale. Blends where cherry shares top billing with another fruit are not on this shelf either. Nor are the mint-led and menthol-led liquids in which the cold arrives first and the fruit trails behind it, which live further along the broader ice shelf.

One product here carries no nicotine as supplied. The 100ml shortfill is sold at 0mg with headroom in the bottle for nicotine shots. It earns its place on flavour, because the recipe is a cherry with a cool note, and hiding it from someone shopping by taste would be unhelpful.

The last thing to hold in mind is that a flavour shelf is not a device shelf. These eight do not all compete with one another. Three are refills that only matter if the right device is already in your hand, and the two bottles only matter if you own a refillable tank or an open pod. On any given visit, perhaps three of the eight are live options for you. Most of what follows is about working out which three.

What the cold actually does to a cherry

The base, before anything is added to it

Cherry is one of the harder fruits to build a vape flavour around, for reasons that are chemical rather than culinary. The compound most people read as "cherry" also reads as almond. Benzaldehyde is the backbone of nearly every cherry flavouring, and it is the same note you meet in marzipan, in amaretto and in the kernel inside the stone. At low concentration it simply reads as fruit. Pushed harder, the almond steps forward, and past a certain point the whole thing tips into the register people describe as syrupy or medicinal. Every cherry recipe on this shelf is walking that line, and the coolant is one of the things that decides which side it lands on.

The fruit has a second awkward property. It is not very acidic. Lemon and raspberry arrive with brightness already built in, which gives a flavourist a free lift at the front of the mouthful. Cherry is rounder, darker and lower in acid, closer in structure to a plum than to a berry. Left on its own in a sweetened liquid, it tends to go flat halfway through the draw and finish heavy on the tongue.

Flavour houses answer that in one of two directions. The morello route pulls the tart top forward and accepts a thinner, sharper fruit. The black cherry route leans into the dark, glacé end and accepts the weight. IVG's cherry across these eight sits closer to the second, with a tart edge riding on the front of it. Their own text for the shortfill calls it a rich cherry with balanced sweet and tart notes; the 50/50 listing describes a deep, juicy cherry on the inhale with a crisp note on the exhale. Both descriptions match how the flavour reads in use.

Why coolant changes cherry more than it changes strawberry

Cooling agents do two jobs at once. They trigger the cold receptor on the tongue, palate and throat, and they suppress perceived sweetness. The second effect is the one people underestimate, and it is where the interesting part happens. Take the sugar impression down and whatever was sitting underneath it becomes audible.

On a strawberry, what sits underneath is a light green note and a faint creaminess, so cooling it produces something close to a sorbet: recognisably the same fruit, just brighter and thinner. On a cherry, what sits underneath is the almond. A modest amount of coolant lifts the tart top, thins out the syrup and makes that kernel note legible. Some people come to cherry ice precisely for that, and it is exactly what puts other people off. Load the coolant heavily and the opposite happens: the front of the palate goes numb enough that the almond never registers at all, and the flavour simplifies down to sweet, then cold.

That is the real reason cherry ice splits opinion in a way strawberry ice does not. Two liquids built on the same cherry concentrate with different coolant loadings are not two strengths of one flavour. They are two different flavours, and someone who disliked one may well get on with the other. It is worth trying a second cherry ice before writing the whole idea off, and worth reading the rest of the iced range with the same caution, because the effect is not uniform across fruits.

Menthol cooling and menthol-free cooling

Menthol is not only a cold trigger. It is an aroma compound with a smell of its own: peppermint, a little camphor, a dry herbal edge. Put it on cherry and the two combine into something with a very particular cultural association, and there is no polite way around naming it. It reads as a cherry lozenge. Plenty of people find that comforting and buy it on purpose. Others cannot unhear it once they have noticed it.

The other family of coolants, the ones the trade calls koolada or WS-23, hit the same receptor with almost no aroma attached. The cold arrives slightly later in the draw, sits further back in the mouth and on the throat, and lingers longer after the exhale, but it contributes no flavour of its own. A cherry cooled that way still tastes of cherry the whole way through, with the cold running underneath as a separate layer rather than sitting on top as a second flavour.

Going by IVG's own product text rather than any analysis of mine, the PRO pair is the only one that names menthol. Both the PRO 10K kit and the matching PRO pod describe a crisp, icy menthol finish behind the fruit. The other six describe cold without naming it: an icy undertone on the shortfill, a crisp icy note on the exhale for the 50/50, a frosty finish on the SAVR pod, an icy twist on the SMART MAX pods, a subtle icy finish on the Reload Mini. That is a difference in how the products are written up, not a published formulation, so treat it as a hint about intent rather than a specification. It is, however, the only evidence the shelf offers, and it happens to line up with how the two families taste.

Why the same recipe feels colder in a pod than in a tank

Three things move the perceived cold, and none of them is the recipe.

Airflow volume. A tight mouth-to-lung pod delivers a small quantity of dense vapour to a small area of the mouth. The coolant in that mouthful is concentrated, and it lands hard on the soft palate. A sub-ohm direct-to-lung tank delivers several times the volume with a great deal of air mixed through it, which spreads the same cooling thinly across a much bigger surface. The sensation is broader and gentler even when the liquid is identical.

The VG/PG ratio. A 70/30 blend is thicker and produces a warmer, denser vapour that carries sweetness generously and rounds off sharp edges. A 50/50 is thinner, wets a coil faster, and carries top notes and coolant more directly, so the ice reads with more definition and a drier finish.

Coil behaviour. A 0.8 ohm mesh pod runs warm enough to put real vapour behind the flavour while keeping the draw restricted, which is the combination that makes cooling most obvious: enough vapour to carry the coolant, concentrated enough to deliver it. Push the same liquid through a much lower resistance with wide airflow and you get more vapour but less concentration.

Stack those together and the practical conclusion follows. The coldest cherry on this shelf is most likely to be a 2ml pod on a tight draw, and the mildest is most likely to be the 100ml shortfill through a sub-ohm tank, despite the shortfill being one of the two products with "Frozen" on the label.

Four honest groups

Liquid in a bottle: cheapest by volume, most work

The two bottles are the only products here that let you choose nicotine and hardware separately, and they are far cheaper per millilitre than anything with a coil attached. The 100ml Frozen Cherries shortfill is £1.99 for a 120ml bottle containing 100ml of liquid at 0mg, which works out at roughly 2p per millilitre before anything is added. The 70/30 ratio puts it squarely in sub-ohm, direct-to-lung territory: thick vapour, a wide draw, and a flavour that spreads out rather than concentrating. The 20ml of headroom is there for nicotine shots, and IVG's own figure is one to two shots, taking the finished bottle up to 3mg.

Its opposite number is the Original 50/50 Frozen Cherries, a 10ml bottle at £0.99 listed in 3mg, 6mg and 12mg. A balanced 50/50 ratio is thinner, wicks quickly and carries the top of the flavour more directly, so it suits mouth-to-lung tanks and open pod systems rather than large sub-ohm hardware. Per millilitre it is about 10p, five times the shortfill, and that gap is what it costs to have the nicotine already in the bottle and nothing to mix.

An honest caveat on the shortfill: people who buy it expecting the cold they know from a 2ml pod usually find it tamer. That is the airflow, not a weaker recipe. If a hard cold is the whole point, the bottle is the wrong format for it and either of the prefilled pod options will land with more force. If you want a cherry you can vape through an afternoon without your palate going numb, the bottle is doing you a favour rather than short-changing you.

Both bottles also appear on the IVG E-Liquids shelf, which is the place to look if you want these two formats in something other than cherry.

Under £2, and the shelf's odd couple

Two products here cost less than a takeaway coffee, and beyond the price they have almost nothing in common.

The SAVR Cherry Ice Refill Pod is £0.99 for a 2ml prefilled pod plus a 4ml refill container, so 6ml of 20mg nicotine salt in total, running through a mesh coil. IVG rates one pod at up to 3,000 puffs, a laboratory estimate rather than something to plan a week around. At 6ml for 99p it works out around 16.5p per millilitre, the cheapest nicotine-containing liquid on the shelf by a comfortable margin. The catch is absolute. It only works in a SAVR device. Own one and this is the obvious purchase; own something else and it is a paperweight.

The Reload Mini Cherry Ice Vape Kit is £1.49 and is a whole device: a compact rechargeable pod system with Type-C charging, a 2ml prefilled pod of 20mg nicotine salt in the box, and a restricted mouth-to-lung draw. It is the only complete kit on this shelf under £10 and by a distance the smallest. IVG rates a single pod at up to 600 puffs, with the 2-pack and 4-pack IVG 2400 4-in-1 Reload pods rated at up to 1,200 and 2,400 respectively, all of them laboratory figures. That modest capacity is the trade-off for the price and the pocket size. Anyone used to a 12ml pod will be swapping this one far more often.

Both sit on the Disposable Vape Alternatives shelf, where the organising idea is a device you keep and a pod you replace.

The £7.95 refill pods: 12ml each, and a device requirement

Two products on this shelf cost the same, hold the same and carry the same manufacturer rating, and the honest thing to say is that for most buyers they are not really alternatives at all.

The PRO 10K Cherry Ice Prefilled Pod and the SMART MAX Frozen Cherry Refill Pod are both £7.95. Both pair a 2ml prefilled pod with a 10ml auto-fill container, both are rated by the manufacturer at up to 10,000 puffs from the full 12ml, and both use the same click-together filling method: push the pod into the container, let it fill itself, seal it, slide it into the device.

Where they separate is small but real. The PRO pod is listed in two nicotine strengths, 10mg and 20mg. The SMART MAX pod is 20mg only. The SMART MAX listing publishes its coil resistance, a 0.8 ohm mesh, while the PRO listing describes an advanced mesh coil without giving a number. And the flavour copy differs in the way set out above, with the PRO naming menthol and the SMART MAX naming an icy twist on sweet cherry. At roughly 66p per millilitre these are the dearest liquid on the shelf, which is what a pod, a coil and a sealed filling system cost on top of the liquid itself.

If one of the two devices is already yours, the decision has been made for you, and the only live question is 10mg or 20mg on the PRO. Both pods appear on the IVG Prefilled Pods shelf and under 20mg Vape Kits & Refill Pods.

The £10.95 kits: same money, different character

The PRO 10K Cherry Ice Vape Kit and the SMART MAX Frozen Cherry Vape Kit are both £10.95. Both include the device plus the same 2ml pod and 10ml refill container their standalone refills contain, both run a 1000mAh battery with Type-C charging, both are 20mg, and both are rated by the manufacturer at up to 10,000 puffs per pod. Subtract the £7.95 refill price from the £10.95 kit price and the hardware costs £3.00 on a first purchase. That is the clearest number on this page.

The SMART MAX is the more featured of the two. It carries a display showing battery percentage, charging progress and the current mode, and it switches between an Eco setting and a Boost setting, trading vapour output against battery life. It weighs 90g and runs the 0.8 ohm mesh coil. Eco stretches a charge; Boost pushes more vapour, and in practice that makes the cold register harder, because there is simply more vapour carrying the coolant into the same mouthful.

The PRO is the plainer object. No display, no modes, a sealed auto-fill pod and a pocket-sized body. Some people want the readout, some find it clutter, and that preference is a better basis for the decision than flavour is, because on taste there is very little between them. Worth noting for later: the PRO range offers the 10mg pod alongside the 20mg, while the SMART MAX line does not. The wider device families sit on the IVG PRO Range and IVG SMART MAX Range shelves, and both kits also appear under Big Puff Vapes and IVG Vapes.

The decisions this shelf actually forces

Cross off what you cannot use

Before comparing flavour, work out which items your hardware supports. Own a SAVR and the £0.99 SAVR pod is the only pod here that fits, and the cheapest nicotine-containing liquid on the shelf besides. Own a PRO or a SMART MAX and the same logic applies in one direction each. A refillable mouth-to-lung tank points at the 10ml Original 50/50, a sub-ohm tank at the shortfill. Only the three kits are open to everybody, because the device arrives with them.

PRO or SMART MAX, if you are buying hardware

This is the closest call on the shelf, and the specifications do very little to separate the two. Same £10.95, same 12ml, same 20mg, same 1000mAh, same manufacturer rating. The SMART MAX gives you the display and the Eco/Boost switch, and it publishes a 0.8 ohm mesh resistance. The PRO kit gives you a simpler device and access to a 10mg pod as well as a 20mg one when you restock. On flavour, the PRO names menthol and the SMART MAX does not, which, if the copy reflects the recipe, means the PRO should carry a slightly more herbal cold and the SMART MAX a rounder one. That is the whole difference, and it is thinner than the price tag suggests it should be.

Kit now, or refill now

£3.00 separates a kit from its refill in both families. If you have never owned the device, that £3.00 is unavoidable and cheap. If you already own it, paying it again buys a spare device and a backup for when one is charging, which some people want and most do not. There is no flavour argument either way, because the liquid in the kit and the liquid in the refill are the same.

Pod or bottle, in money

The per-millilitre spread on this shelf is wider than the headline prices suggest, because the headline prices are measuring different things.

Product	Price	Liquid	Nicotine	Per ml
Shortfill 70/30 Frozen Cherries	£1.99	100ml	0mg as supplied	about 2p
Original 50/50 Frozen Cherries	£0.99	10ml	3mg, 6mg, 12mg	about 10p
SAVR Cherry Ice Refill Pod	£0.99	6ml	20mg	about 17p
PRO 10K Cherry Ice Pod	£7.95	12ml	10mg, 20mg	about 66p
SMART MAX Frozen Cherry Pod	£7.95	12ml	20mg	about 66p
Reload Mini Cherry Ice Kit	£1.49	2ml plus device	20mg	device included
PRO 10K Cherry Ice Kit	£10.95	12ml plus device	20mg	about 91p
SMART MAX Frozen Cherry Kit	£10.95	12ml plus device	20mg	about 91p

Read that table before deciding anything on it is expensive. A prefilled pod is not just liquid. It is liquid, a pod body, a mesh coil and a sealed refill mechanism, replaced every time. A bottle is liquid and nothing else, which is why the two columns sit so far apart and why the comparison is only fair within a format.

How much cold do you want

Nobody publishes coolant loadings, so ranking the eight precisely would be invention. The direction of travel is clear enough, though. Format pushes perceived cold harder than recipe does, so the 2ml pods on a restricted draw will read colder than the shortfill through a sub-ohm tank, with the 50/50 somewhere between. Within the pods, the copy suggests the PRO is the most explicitly mentholated and the Reload Mini the most restrained, since its listing is the only one calling the icy finish subtle.

The nicotine on this shelf, stated plainly

Four figures appear across the eight. The shortfill is 0mg as supplied, with room for shots up to 3mg. The Original 50/50 is listed in 3mg, 6mg and 12mg. The PRO refill pod is listed in 10mg and 20mg. Everything else, meaning the SAVR pod, the Reload Mini, the PRO kit and both SMART MAX items, is 20mg. Those are the facts on the labels. Which of them suits you is not a question a shelf page can answer, and nicotine is an addictive substance in every one of those concentrations.

Formats, coils and what fits what

Four closed pod systems are represented on this single flavour shelf, and that is the most common source of a wrong purchase here. SAVR pods fit SAVR devices. PRO pods fit PRO devices. SMART MAX pods fit SMART MAX devices. The Reload Mini takes IVG 2400 4-in-1 Reload pods. None of those four crosses over, and the fact that two of them are the same price and the same capacity does not make them interchangeable.

The filling mechanism is shared in principle across the SAVR, PRO and SMART MAX pods even though the parts are not. Each pack contains a 2ml pod and a separate refill container, and the two click together: push the pod into the container, it draws liquid in without you pouring anything, seal it, then slide the filled pod into the device. The container size is what separates them. SAVR supplies 4ml alongside the pod for 6ml in total, while PRO and SMART MAX each supply 10ml for 12ml in total. That single number explains most of the price gap between the SAVR pod and the two larger refills.

Every prefilled pod on this shelf holds 2ml, which is why the extra liquid travels beside it in a container rather than inside a bigger tank. The refill routine, not the pod size, therefore decides how often you handle the device: a 12ml pack front-loads the liquid into one purchase and asks you to top the pod up several times as you work through it.

Coil resistance is published for one product and implied for the rest. The SMART MAX pair runs a 0.8 ohm mesh, which is a mid-resistance coil: a 1.2 ohm pod pulls tighter and produces less vapour, while a 0.4 ohm sub-ohm coil pulls far more openly and produces a great deal more. At 0.8 ohm the draw stays restricted while the vapour volume rises, which is the combination that makes a cooled fruit read clearly. The PRO pod and the SAVR pod both describe mesh coils without stating a figure. Mesh, as opposed to a wound wire, heats across a wider surface area, which generally gives a more even flavour through the life of a pod.

The bottles work to different rules entirely. The 50/50 bottle is aimed at refillable mouth-to-lung tanks and open pod systems, where a thinner liquid wicks properly through a narrow feed. The 70/30 shortfill is aimed at sub-ohm direct-to-lung tanks, where a thicker liquid keeps up with a hungry low-resistance coil and produces the vapour that format exists for. Putting a 70/30 into a narrow mouth-to-lung pod is the classic way to get a dry hit, because the liquid cannot travel through the wicking ports fast enough. Neither bottle is intended to be poured into the sealed prefilled pods on this shelf, which come with their own matched containers.

Charging is Type-C across the three kits, and the two 10K devices both carry 1000mAh cells. The Reload Mini is the small one in every sense: smaller battery, smaller pod, smaller body. For the full picture of which IVG devices take which pods, the refill pods shelf is the place to cross-reference before ordering.

What the £0.99 to £10.95 spread is actually measuring

The gap between the cheapest and dearest item on this shelf is nearly elevenfold, and none of it is a quality gradient. It is hardware and volume, in that order.

At the bottom, £0.99 buys two completely different things. It buys 10ml of Original 50/50 Frozen Cherries in a bottle with nicotine already in it, and it buys a SAVR Cherry Ice pod with 6ml of 20mg liquid, a pod body and a coil. The second is less liquid for the same money because a consumable coil comes with it, and it remains the cheapest way to run nicotine through a SAVR.

The middle of the shelf is the £1.49 Reload Mini kit and the £1.99 shortfill, two items separated by fifty pence that could hardly be less alike. One is an entire rechargeable device with 2ml of liquid. The other is 100ml of liquid with no device, no nicotine and no coil.

At the top, £7.95 and £10.95 are the pod-system prices, and the £3.00 between them is the device. Twelve millilitres is the constant at that end of the shelf, and it is six times what the Reload Mini ships with. Paying £7.95 for 12ml looks steep next to a £1.99 bottle until you account for the coil and pod being replaced with every purchase, and for the fact that the liquid arrives at 20mg with no mixing.

Pack sizes here are all singles. No multipacks appear among these eight, so the only volume decision available is which format to buy.

Where to go from here

If the cooling turns out to be the problem rather than the fruit, the uncooled and carbonated cherries on the Cherry Vape shelf are the next stop. That shelf holds everything here plus the cherry treatments that reach for acidity or sweetness instead of cold, and it is the correct place to go if the almond note is coming through too strongly, since a rounder, sweeter cherry tends to bury it.

If the cooling is the part you like, the Ice Vape shelf runs the same idea across the other fruits, and the differences are worth understanding before you assume every ice flavour behaves like this one. Stay at 20mg and the 20mg Vape Kits & Refill Pods shelf filters the whole catalogue to that strength in one move.

For hardware, the IVG PRO Range and IVG SMART MAX Range shelves show every flavour each device takes, which matters more than this page does once you have committed to a system. The Big Puff Vapes shelf collects the higher-capacity pod systems, the Disposable Vape Alternatives shelf collects the keep-the-device formats, and IVG E-Liquids covers the bottles. If none of that narrows it down, the full IVG catalogue runs to 454 products.

The short version

Eight products, four pod systems, two bottle formats and one flavour idea that behaves differently depending on how you deliver it. The cherry underneath is a dark, low-acid fruit with an almond edge that coolant either sharpens or buries, which is why two cherry ice liquids can land in genuinely different places rather than being colder and less cold versions of one thing.

Practically: own a device, buy the matching pod and ignore the rest. Buying hardware, the PRO 10K kit and the SMART MAX kit are the same price with the same capacity, and the display and Boost/Eco switch on the SMART MAX against the 10mg pod option on the PRO is the real fork. Spending as little as possible, the Reload Mini at £1.49 is the only complete device under £10 here. Mixing your own, the 100ml shortfill undercuts everything else per millilitre and reads as the mildest cold of the eight.

Strictly for adults aged 18 and over. Nicotine is an addictive substance.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between Cherry Ice and Frozen Cherries on this shelf?

It is a naming convention, not a hierarchy. Cherry Ice is the label IVG uses on pod and device products, meaning the SAVR pod, the Reload Mini and both PRO items. Frozen Cherries, plural, is the bottled e-liquid name, and Frozen Cherry, singular, belongs to the SMART MAX pair. Nothing in either name measures coolant. Two products sharing a name in different formats can taste noticeably different, and two with different names can land in much the same place.

Is the cooling menthol, or a menthol-free coolant?

IVG names menthol on one pair only. The PRO 10K kit and the matching PRO pod both describe a crisp, icy menthol finish. The other six describe cold in non-specific terms: an icy undertone, a frosty finish, an icy twist, a cooling exhale. That indicates intent rather than formulation. In tasting terms, a menthol-led cool adds a dry, faintly herbal note of its own on top of the fruit, while a menthol-free coolant leaves the cherry alone and places the cold underneath it, arriving slightly later and lasting longer.

Which of the eight is the least icy?

Most likely the 100ml shortfill, and the reason is format rather than recipe. Through a sub-ohm direct-to-lung tank the vapour arrives in a large, air-diluted volume that spreads the cooling across the whole mouth instead of concentrating it. The same liquid through a tight 2ml pod would read considerably colder. The 70/30 ratio also produces a warmer, thicker vapour that rounds off sharp edges. If you want the cherry to stay in front of the cold, that bottle is the one to look at.

Can I use a PRO pod in a SMART MAX device?

No. They are separate pod systems that happen to share a price, a capacity and a manufacturer puff rating. PRO pods are made for PRO devices and SMART MAX pods for SMART MAX devices, and the same closed relationship applies to SAVR pods and to the Reload pods. Four incompatible ecosystems appear on this one flavour shelf, which is the biggest single cause of a wrong order. Check the device name printed on your hardware before the flavour name on the pod.

What pods does the Reload Mini take?

IVG lists the Reload Mini as taking IVG 2400 4-in-1 Reload pods, sold in 2-packs and 4-packs, and it ships with one 2ml prefilled pod of 20mg nicotine salt already fitted. The manufacturer rates a single pod at up to 600 puffs, a 2-pack at up to 1,200 and a 4-pack at up to 2,400, all laboratory estimates rather than predictions about real use. Nothing from the PRO, SMART MAX or SAVR ranges fits it.

Why is the 100ml shortfill nicotine-free?

That is how a shortfill is built. The 120ml bottle arrives holding 100ml of flavoured liquid at 0mg, leaving 20ml of headroom so the buyer adds nicotine shots and sets the final strength. IVG's own figure is one to two shots, giving a finished bottle of up to 3mg. If mixing is not something you want to do, the 10ml Original 50/50 is the same flavour family with nicotine already in the bottle.

What nicotine strengths appear on this shelf?

Four figures. The shortfill is 0mg as supplied, with headroom for shots up to 3mg. The Original 50/50 is listed in 3mg, 6mg and 12mg. The PRO refill pod is listed in 10mg and 20mg. Everything else here, meaning the SAVR pod, the Reload Mini kit, the PRO kit and both SMART MAX items, is 20mg. Nicotine is an addictive substance at every one of those concentrations, and which figure suits an individual is not something a product listing can determine.

What is the cheapest way to vape this flavour?

By volume, the shortfill at roughly 2p per millilitre, though you have to add nicotine shots and own a sub-ohm tank. With nicotine already included, the Original 50/50 at about 10p per millilitre. Among prefilled pods, the SAVR at 6ml for £0.99 works out near 17p per millilitre, roughly a quarter of the 12ml PRO and SMART MAX pods at around 66p. The qualifier in every case is hardware: the cheap options are only cheap if the matching device is already yours.

Does the ice fade as a pod empties?

Perceived cooling usually holds up better than the fruit does. As a coil ages, the heavier, sweeter aroma compounds tend to be the first casualties, while the cooling sensation is a receptor effect rather than a delicate top note and keeps registering. On a cherry ice pod near the end of its life the result is that it reads colder and thinner than it did when new, because the cherry has retreated rather than because more coolant has appeared. The 12ml pods reach that point later purely because they hold more liquid.

Can I fill a PRO or SMART MAX pod from the 50/50 bottle?

No. Those pods are supplied prefilled and come with a matched refill container that clicks directly into the pod, and they are not designed to be filled from a separate bottle of e-liquid. The bottled liquids on this shelf are intended for refillable tanks and open pod systems instead: the 50/50 for mouth-to-lung hardware, and the 70/30 shortfill for sub-ohm direct-to-lung tanks. Using the shortfill in a narrow mouth-to-lung pod is a reliable way to produce a dry hit, because the thicker liquid cannot wick quickly enough.

Is the flavour in the PRO kit the same as in the PRO refill pod?

Yes. The kit ships with the same 2ml pod and 10ml refill container that the standalone refill contains, so the first 12ml out of a new PRO kit is the identical liquid you would buy on its own afterwards. The same holds for the SMART MAX pair. The kit price is the refill price plus £3.00 for the device, so there is no flavour reason to prefer one purchase over the other, only a hardware one.

How does cherry ice compare with strawberry ice or blue raspberry ice?

Cherry is the darkest of the three bases and the least acidic, so the cold reads as a contrast to the fruit rather than an extension of it. Strawberry is lighter with a faint creaminess, and cooling it produces something close to a sorbet. Blue raspberry arrives already sharp and sweet-sour, so cold pushes it sharper still. Cherry cooled hard reads more like a chilled dark syrup with the cold sitting underneath. Those differences are large enough that liking one iced fruit predicts very little about the others.

What does a 0.8 ohm mesh coil mean in practice?

It is a mid-resistance coil. A 1.2 ohm pod pulls tighter and runs with less vapour behind it, while a 0.4 ohm sub-ohm coil pulls far more openly and produces a great deal more. At 0.8 ohm the SMART MAX sits between those: a restricted mouth-to-lung draw with a decent volume of vapour, which is the combination that makes a cooled fruit register most clearly. Mesh refers to the construction, a perforated sheet rather than wound wire, which heats across a wider area.

How long does a 12ml pod last?

That depends entirely on how you vape, and no honest answer contains a number. IVG rates both the PRO and the SMART MAX pods at up to 10,000 puffs from the full 12ml, and the SAVR pod at up to 3,000 from its 6ml, but those are laboratory estimates produced under fixed test conditions rather than a promise about anyone's week. The more useful figure is the volume itself. Twelve millilitres is double the SAVR's 6ml and six times the 2ml a Reload Mini pod holds.