A tea drinker’s vape
If you’ve actually had Longjing — the pan-fired green tea from the hills around West Lake — you’ll know it’s nothing like the sweet bottled green tea drinks. It’s drier, a little nutty, with that faint smell of warm chestnut you only get from properly roasted leaves.
Snowplus has taken that direction and added a jasmine note on top. The result is closer to a Chinese tea-house cup than to a flavoured candy. There’s almost no sweetness here, which is the point.
How does the flavour read？
The first pull is jasmine — light, floral, not perfumed. Underneath sits the dry, slightly toasty body of green tea. The exhale is clean and a touch botanical, with no lingering sugar coating on the lips. If you’re used to fruit-and-ice vapes, the first few draws may read as thin until you adjust to the absence of sweetness.
Flavour reference card
- Sweetness: low
- Cooling: none
- Closest culinary parallel: hot Longjing brewed slightly under-leafed
- Time of day this works best: mid-morning, post-coffee
Hardware notes
Standard Snowplus Dash 4000 chassis — 107 mm long, 20 mm wide, 32.4 g, draw-activated. 7.5 ml of pre-loaded e-liquid feeding a ceramic coil from a 530 mAh battery. The ceramic atomiser matters for a tea profile like this: cotton-coil hardware tends to muddy the dry-tea character with a slightly burnt edge.
Two quick questions
Will this work for someone who doesn’t drink tea?
It might land as plain on first pull if you’ve never had unsweetened green tea. Give it a session.
How strong is the jasmine?
Audible but not loud. It’s there as a top note, not the headline.
Is it close to the Tea Guan Yin King in the range?
Different tea style entirely. Tieguanyin is an oolong — rounder, slightly creamier. Longjing is greener and drier. Worth alternating if you like tea profiles.
