Elf Bar 600 Prefilled Pods – P&B Cloudd

Soft fruit, soft landing

Pandb Cloudd opens gently rather than with a bang. The peach shows up first, ripe and rounded rather than sharp, closer to the flesh of the fruit than the skin, and it arrives with a slightly creamy edge that keeps it from tasting watery. Blueberry follows almost straight away, deeper and a touch tart, and it's really that tartness doing the work of stopping the whole thing tipping over into pure sugar. Together the two fruits blend into something that reads less like biting into either fruit on its own and more like a peach and blueberry dessert, soft fruit folded through something sweet rather than eaten raw.

The "cloud" part of the name earns its keep on the exhale. There's a light, fluffy sweetness that sits over the top of the fruit, more candy floss than sugar syrup, airy rather than heavy, and it's what gives this flavour its slightly indulgent, treat like character. It never turns sticky or cloying though, the blueberry's tartness keeps pulling it back before it gets there. Take a few draws in a row and you get a nice rhythm, peach up front, blueberry through the middle, that cloud like sweetness trailing behind on every exhale.

When to reach for it

This is a comfort flavour more than a wake up one. It suits downtime, evenings in, a slower afternoon, anywhere a hot drink and something sweet would normally be welcome. Because it leans soft and dessert like rather than sharp or icy, it's not the flavour that snaps you awake first thing, it's the one you reach for once the day has already slowed down.

People who like their fruit vapes on the sweeter, gentler side, rather than the sour or menthol heavy end, tend to get on best with Pandb Cloudd. If your usual order at a coffee shop leans toward something with cream or syrup in it rather than a black coffee, this flavour will likely sit well with you. It also works nicely as a change of pace flavour for anyone whose everyday vape is something plainer, a single fruit or a straight menthol, since the layered sweetness here feels like more of an occasion.

How it compares to other soft fruit pods

Next to a plain blueberry pod, Pandb Cloudd is softer and less tart, the peach and the cloud like sweetness round off blueberry's sharper edges considerably. Next to a straight peach flavour, it's got more depth and a bit more sweetness sitting behind it, thanks to both the blueberry and that candy floss note doing extra work. If you've tried strawberry and cream style vapes and liked the dessert angle but wanted something a little fruitier and less rich, this sits in a similar space without going quite as heavy.

Sweet, layered flavours like this one can start to feel a bit much if it's the only thing you're vaping all day, so it's worth keeping something else on hand for balance:

• A crisp apple or pear for daytime, when you want fruit without the extra sweetness
• A menthol or mint pod for after meals, to properly reset your palate
• A citrus flavour mid afternoon, if the sweetness of Pandb Cloudd starts feeling heavy by the second or third pod of the day

Notes for getting the best out of it

Because the flavour has real layers to it, peach, blueberry and that cloud like sweetness, slower draws let each part show up properly rather than blending into a single generic sweet fruit hit. A fresh pod also tends to show the fruit notes more clearly than one that's been in a pocket for a while, since heat and time soften the top notes first and the sweetness is generally what's left behind.

If you're switching between pods regularly, letting a Pandb Cloudd pod be your first vape after a menthol or citrus flavour tends to show off the fruit and sweetness best, since your palate isn't already carrying another strong flavour into it.

A flavour that suits sharing the moment with

There's something inherently sociable about a flavour built around softness and sweetness rather than sharpness, and Pandb Cloudd tends to come into its own in company rather than solo. It's the kind of pod that gets passed around or asked about, since the candy floss note is distinctive enough to notice from a couple of feet away and pleasant enough that most people react well to it. If you're someone who vapes mostly around other people, at gatherings, in the car with friends, on a night in with company, this flavour tends to land better in those settings than a sharper, more assertive one would.

On your own, it works just as well as a small end of day marker, the vape equivalent of putting the kettle on once everything else is done. There's no urgency to it, nothing that demands your full attention the way a very tart or icy flavour can, which makes it easy to enjoy slowly without really trying.

Pandb Cloudd, quickly answered

Is Pandb Cloudd more peach or more blueberry?

Peach leads on the first draw and blueberry follows close behind through the middle of the vape, with the two staying fairly balanced across a session rather than one flavour dominating throughout.

Is this a sweet flavour?

Yes, it's one of the sweeter, more dessert leaning options, thanks to the soft candy floss style note layered over the fruit. The blueberry's tartness stops it becoming sickly, but it's not a flavour built for anyone after something sharp or sour.

Does the flavour hold up across the whole pod?

Like most fruit and sweetness combinations, the top fruit notes are the first to soften over time, so later draws can taste slightly more sweet than fruity compared with the very first few pulls from a fresh pod.