specs: the 30ml bottle of Jammin I purchased from Vapor4Life (30mls is the only size they offer, so I went in 50/50 on the order with our colleague On Target and have now mailed him half of the bottle) is a golden-colored liquid at 24mg nic strength in an unspecified base blend (80/20 pg/vg, maybe?). I let the juice steep for five days. Testing was done by loading the juice into a 2.9 ohm Boge SR filler carto powered by a Kicked Bolt set to 9 watts.
This purchase and review were inspired by
passerbyeus, who posted that V4L Jammin and Totally Wicked’s USA-made RY4 were among his favorite RY4s, in part because they were sweet.
Here’s the vendor description for
Jammin from
V4L’s product page:
“Treat and tame your sweet tooth with this perfectly balanced juggling act of mild, sweet tobacco and other sweet undertones. Visions of sugar plums may dance in your head, but vaping sensations of vanilla and caramel will twirl your tastebuds in delicious, dessert-like ecstasy.”
Given all that, my expectation was that I’d encounter a very sweet, dessert-type RY4. Well, a funny thing happened on the way to the sugar plum factory. Oddly enough, I don’t experience Jammin as all that sweet. Oh, it has discernible sweetness, but I expected more, almost over-the-top sweetness. To my tastebuds/nose/brain at least, Jammin is nowhere near as sweet as I assumed it would be. It probably qualifies as a Dessert RY4, but not by much.
On top of that surprise, I find Jammin to be more Classic than Custom in flavor profile. Jammin uses a mild, middle-of-the-road tobacco flavor, the kind that characterizes Classic RY4s. By that I don’t mean that the tobacco is lacking, only that it doesn’t stand out in the mix nor draw attention to itself, and the flavor profile of the tobacco stays in the center of the bell curve. The tobacco says
“I’m normal,” rather than
“I’m different.”
The bright, almost effervescent quality that I often associate with Classic RY4s is more emphatic in Jammin than in most Classics. The high-end of the scale is pronounced here. Trumpets rather than bassoons. I comparison-vaped about 15 other RY4s today before finding one---HitLiquid RY4---that was almost as bright as Jammin.
Most Classics are defined predominantly by their balancing of flavors, and Jammin is definitely a very well-balanced juice. No single flavor element grabs the microphone at the podium. Jammin is like the early years of The Supremes rather than the later years of Diana Ross and The Supremes---it's The Four Tops rather than Martha and the Vandellas. All the individual flavors sing together in what might as well be barbershop harmony. The caramel is ever-so-slightly more forward than the vanilla, but not by enough to be considered caramel-rich.
Overall, I find Jammin to be quite tasty. Sweet, balanced, and bright. No off-notes or weird flavors. No nuts. Just a very pleasing and basic RY4. No wonder passerbyeus likes it. I do too.
Vapor4Life Jammin Nobacco grade:
B+
Link to purchase:
V4L Jammin
