Tobacco, Coffee & Tea Vapes: The Non-Fruit Corner of the Range
Fifty-odd guides in, and we have written about berries, melons, ice and lollies over and over, because that is most of the range. One corner has never had a page: the flavours built on tobacco leaf, roasted coffee, brewed tea and shisha rather than on anything from a fruit bowl. Small, different, and what people ask for once the sweet end stops registering.
Scope note: the floral flavours are their own corner and get their own guide. This one is the dry, roasted and brewed end.
The four that define the corner
Four flavours across two devices — three on GROO MAX, one on GODFATHER 9. The rest of the table is non-fruit-named rather than non-fruit-tasting.
| Flavour | What it actually tastes of | Sweetness | Ice / cool | Who it suits |
| GROO MAX Smooth Tobacco | Dry and earthy, nutty and woody, barely sweet | Low | None signalled | Anyone wanting a break from sugar |
| GROO MAX Coffee | Roasted and milky — a flat white, not a long black | Medium | None signalled | After dinner; a small, loyal group |
| GROO MAX Double Apple | Apple on an aniseed base — shisha lounge, not orchard | Medium | None signalled | Anyone who already likes liquorice |
| GODFATHER 9 TEA - LONGJING | Green tea: soft, vegetal, gently nutty, quiet | Low | None to light | Palate resets; anyone finding sweets cloying |
| IGET Bar Pro Passion Fruit Peach Iced Tea | Fruit-forward with a tea backbone underneath | Medium-high | Light | The easy way into the tea end |
| GROO MAX Energy Drink | The familiar can — sharp, syrupy, citrus-adjacent | High | None signalled | Non-fruit by name, sweet by taste |
| IGET Bar Pro Orange Fanta Soda | Soft-drink orange, not orange fruit | High | Light | Soda drinkers, not citrus fans |
The ice column is us reading the flavour name, the only honest way to do it — see reading ice in flavour names.
Tobacco, purely as a taste
Read it the way you would read any other flavour name: a description of what the liquid tastes of. Flavour houses describe the tobacco profile in earthy, nutty and woody terms, sometimes with a light caramel or hazelnut edge, and the drier blends are defined by an absence of sweetness rather than by anything loud. Smooth Tobacco sits at the mild end of that. It is the least sweet thing we stock, and for the first few draws your palate registers "not sweet" before anything else — a bigger jump than the name suggests if you have lived on lolly flavours. Which is why it resets a tired palate so well.
Coffee, and why it is hard to pull off
Coffee has a poor reputation among liquid reviewers, and fairly. The recurring complaint in UK and US e-liquid write-ups is that it lands in one of three failure modes: too faint to notice, harshly bitter, or plainly synthetic. It is an intense flavour that bulldozes whatever it is blended with, which is why so few brands attempt one. GROO MAX Coffee dodges that by going milky rather than dark — roasted, rounded, mildly sweet, bitterness pulled well back. Our reorder pattern is unusual: few customers, but they rebuy the same flavour every time, which is not how fruit behaves.
Double Apple is not two apples
The most misunderstood name we sell. Double Apple comes from the Arabic shisha blend tuffahatayn, "two apples" — and the two are not red and green apple, they are apple and anise. Shisha guides consistently describe the profile as apple flavouring carried on a heavy aniseed or liquorice base, rooted in the Egyptian and Levantine hookah tradition. That is exactly what the GROO MAX version tastes like. Like liquorice and it is one of the more interesting things on the shelf; dislike it and no amount of apple will save it. This is the one most often bought by mistake.
Longjing tea, and the quiet end
Longjing (dragonwell) is a pan-fired Chinese green tea, and tea specialists describe its signature as a chestnut-like nuttiness over a soft vegetal base, finishing almost buttery with no bitterness. The GODFATHER 9 flavour aims at that rather than at sweet iced tea: low, green, gently nutty, far quieter than anything else in the pod range. Quiet is the point — it is what we suggest when someone says everything tastes the same, usually a palate problem rather than a product one (see why vape flavour fades). Too austere? Passion Fruit Peach Iced Tea is the way in.
Where the range genuinely runs out
The honest gaps: no custard, bakery, cream, vanilla, chocolate or biscuit flavours in any disposable range we carry, and no chai, matcha or Earl Grey — those profiles largely live in refillable liquids. The nearest we stock are creamy-bodied rather than dessert-proper: IGET Bar Pro Blackberry Yogurt Ice Berry and GROO MAX Blueberry Peach Smoothie for body, or GROO MAX Mentos Mint and Alibarbar Ingot Cool Mint if you want clean and non-fruit rather than warm and roasted. For how these sit against the sweeter families, see fruit vs candy vs ice and candy and dessert flavours.
One thing we will not pretend to know: manufacturers do not publish formulations, so any claim about which compounds go into a tobacco or coffee liquid would be invented. All we can honestly report is how they read on the palate — also why the same name tastes different across brands (more here).
How to buy this corner
Do not order ten of anything here. These are one-or-two-in-a-mixed-pack flavours: buy a single unit, live with it a few days, then decide whether it earns a regular slot — Double Apple especially. Everything we send is 100% original stock, shipped fast and discreetly Australia-wide, with free shipping on orders of 10 or more, so the sensible move is one or two of these in a mixed ten alongside your usual fruit. GROO MAX is USB-C rechargeable, GODFATHER 9 is a pod system — see the GROO MAX guide and GODFATHER 9 pod guide.
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