Ok, I want a clean fair fight, no vaping below the belt..
With the unfortunate bad feeling between these tanks of who copied who....putting that aside, this will be like any other review.
These are MY personal opinions after using both tanks.
Looks
Both are good looking in their own rights, the Aromamizer is very nice, I like the look of the knurling and the airflow ring, it's nice to have a selection of colored glass, the black finish is as tough as nails, it won't be chipping off or marking. I took a screwdriver to the bottom and there was no signs of marks. It is slightly taller than the Boreas but only by a bit. The Boreas for me looks slightly better, I love the Matt black finish and the fact there is no branding on the tank, that lazer etched Aromamizer Supreme RDTA at the top, spoils the look a little. The Boreas just looks mean !
Winner - Boreas
Washability lol
This is important to me, there is nothing worse than a tank that is hard to clean, especially when it's a RTA, the Griffins deck springs to mine here. Both, being so similar are very easy to clean, both break down into a lot of parts but there is one big difference. The stop pins that are machined onto the Boreas actually come out on the Aromamizer, they caught me off guard and came bouncing out on my desk as I scrambled to stop them falling on the floor. They are tiny, you need tweezers to put them back in, they are very very easy to lose and although you do get spares, this to me is a real pain....to an extent but I will come back to that at the end.
Winner - Boreas
Orings, threads and machining
The Orings on the Boreas in my opinion need to be thicker, this becomes apparent when you have the Aromamizer, they are top notch and seem to be positioned better too due to the design, they dont fall out when your washing the tank either. The Boreas, the bottom O ring when you screw the cap off can be on top of the bottom of the deck, the O ring to the chimney comes off when cleaning at times. A prime example, put the Aromamizer deck into the bottom cap and it is very snug, you can hold the deck and the bottom cap will stay on, try that with the Boreas and it falls straight off. The Boreas airflow/juice control O rings are another example, I don't care what others say, juice leaks into it after time but I will get back to that later as well.
Threading on the Aromamizer also takes the win, it is some of the best machining I have seen, super smooth, that's not to say the Boreas is bad, not at all but you can tell the difference.
Winner - Aromamizer
Design and Usability
This is where I fall out with the Boreas, personally having the airflow and juice flow together was a mistake and a pretty big one at that. It is the sole reason why we have to go through this crazy routine, which at first, because it's new wasn't to bad but it does start to gripe on you. The filling method of turning the tank upside down, letting the juice drain, opening the top cap slightly to burp it, shutting the juice flow off, turning it back up, unscrew the cap, fill. Not to mention the next routine after you have filled it. So many including myself have gone to bottom filling it which basically scraps the juice flow control completely, that says it all really.
The Aromamizer is a breath of fresh air, I have to say, it's the best juice control I have seen, it works like any other but this actually does shut the juice off completely, not a single drop will get through when it's closed. The juice control has a slight resistance, it's never going to move by accident. Filling is simply fantastic, shut the control off, take 4 or 5 vapes, close the airflow, unscrew the cap and fill, screw the cap back on, open the juice flow and then airflow and vape. I have not had a single gurgle, not a single drop of juice leak, there is certainly no wiping it with a paper towel like the Boreas where the juice builds up, it really does make a hell of a difference to my everyday use of them.
It doesn't stop there either because been able to control the juice flow separate meant when my Claptons were popping a little, new Clapton's an all, or too tight wicking or whatever it is, shutting the juice flow down to 4 notches from 7 (max) stopped the popping after a while as less juice was being fed to the wicks, it works really really well. You simply can't do that on the Boreas, well you can if you want to restrict your airflow.
Winner - Aromamizer
Airflow and Flavor
Both tanks are super airy wide open, now I have read many times that the Boreas airflow and overall vape is smoother, I disagree, they are both super smooth and are a joy to vape, I'd say the Boreas is a little bit more airy but it's hardly noticeable.
Another thing I keep seeing is the Boreas has more flavor, again, for me, this is not true and although they have the same design, it's the air ring that makes a very slight difference. Because the Boreas has holes, 4 of them each side when open sucking air in, the Aromamizer has two holes fully open, in fact they don't look that big and at first I thought it would have restricted airflow but it's not an issue, I can count ever single wrap on my coil through the air hole and I maybe completely wrong but I think it helps with the flavor. I have been back and forth, vaped my .... off yesterday and all this morning and it's super super close, it's so close that I kinda don't want to commit to it, call me chicken but hey....when it's that close, does it really matter.
EDIT - The stock drip tip is to blame for the not so smooth airflow that has been mentioned on forums, with the stock tip it is awful. I used a dotmod from day one so have only just discovered this.!
Winner - Draw
Final thoughts
Two amazing tanks but the Aromamizer surprised me more than I thought, I already had the Boreas as the winner but it didn't quite go that way. If I had to chose then I would pick the Aromamizer Supreme and for me, it's all because of the juice control, it works way better, it is hassle free, it doesn't leak, I can shut it off and vape the access juice, pop it in my pocket without fear of it leaking, you cannot do that with the Boreas and that brings me back to those silly stop pins. Yes, they should of been machined in and if they were in the Boreas I would be going mental but it's not such a big of a deal in the Aromamizer, why ?
Because ever other day I'm stripping the Boreas down to clean the juice build up due to the juice control and the O rings, I have cleaned that tank more times than any other. With the Aromamizer, you should be able to go well, as long as you want because that problem simply doesn't exist, pop the deck out to rewick or put in a new coil and carry on vaping so having to deal with those pins wont be very often.
Two tanks at the very top of there game, both deserving but because of my OCD I find myself only using one of them now. It may not bother you but I would advise, if your in a position to do so to grab a Aromamizer and compare them yourself as my opinion is just that, one persons opinion.
(I should go look online and see if there's a list of what's included in the "mix" of fruits with that flavor... duh.)
Last weekend was all work and NO play. We can't have that now, can we???
