Twelve Monkeys e liquid | Which recipe to choose

A site devoted to dessert flavours writing about Twelve Monkeys may come as a surprise. The Canadian house made its name with exotic fruit, and its few desserts are hard to find. Yet a caramel lover often ends up looking for a fruit recipe to rotate with, and the Twelve Monkeys e liquid catalogue is one of the clearest for that, as long as you understand how the brand splits it up.

Twelve Monkeys e liquid, what to know before choosing

Twelve Monkeys Vapor Co. is a Canadian maker established in 2014, which produces its liquids in Canada. Its catalogue rests mainly on fruit blends, tropical or orchard, in bases rich in vegetable glycerine. Choosing a Twelve Monkeys e liquid therefore means choosing a fruit family and a degree of coolness, far more than a level of indulgence.

UK shops list the range mainly as 100ml nicotine-free shortfills, with room for nicotine shots, alongside nicotine salts in 10ml bottles. The shortfills are thick liquids meant for airy kit rather than pods, and most of the recipes are fruit.

The maker’s four lines

The Twelve Monkeys website sorts its liquids into four lines, which do not target the same palate or the same kit. The vegetable glycerine figures are those the brand publishes for each recipe, and shop listings sometimes show a different ratio, so the bottle label has the final word.

Line	What the maker says	Vegetable glycerine
Classics	complex recipes for flavour chasers, with dense vapour	from 65% to 90% depending on the recipe
Origins	simple, clean flavours with just a touch of sweetness	65%
Ice Age	cooled versions of well-known recipes	from 65% to 75%
Salts	nicotine salts in 50/50, no added sweeteners, not for sub-ohm use	50%

The Origins line matters directly to dessert lovers. The maker explains that it kept sweetness low to improve coil life, and notes elsewhere that higher sweetness levels can shorten coil life, depending on the type of coil used. It is the same mechanism as with caramel, spelt out by a fruit brand.

The same reasoning drives our upkeep advice for the dessert recipes of Le Coq Qui Vape, where sugar on the wick is an issue with every tank.

Choosing your Twelve Monkeys recipe by profile

The main recipes group into a handful of profiles, based on the notes the maker publishes. The grid starts from what you already enjoy and points to the recipe to begin with.

You like	Recipe	Stated notes	Vegetable glycerine
dense exotic fruit	Tropika	lychee, papaya, passion fruit	90%
sunnier exotic fruit	Mangabeys	pineapple, mango, guava	75%
watermelon and strawberry	Kanzi	watermelon, strawberry, a hint of kiwi	80%
apple	Hakuna	Fuji and Granny Smith apples, cranberry finish	65%
grape	Matata	grape on the inhale, apple on the exhale	75%
citrus	Harambae	grapefruit, blood orange, lemon, lime, guava	70%
a cool finish	Kanzi Iced	the Kanzi recipe with a cool finish	75%

Tropika carries the most glycerine in the catalogue and belongs on an airy tank able to wick it. Harambae, with its five citrus notes, sits at the opposite end from a caramel, which makes it a good choice for resting the palate between two desserts.

Hakuna, which the maker presents as one of its tribe’s favourite recipes, and Kanzi, which it calls award-winning, are the most obvious starting points, one on apple, the other on watermelon and strawberry. Mangabeys and Tropika suit a palate already fond of exotic fruit, and the Iced versions suit anyone who likes a cool finish without a full menthol hit.

The dessert side of Twelve Monkeys, rare and hard to find

The official catalogue includes a few desserts, but they play a marginal part next to the fruit. They are worth knowing, if only to understand why this is not a dessert house.

Congo Cream pairs strawberries with two creamy vanillas and a cream note.
Bonogurt blends several berries with a creamy, tart yoghurt.
MacaRaz brings together a French macaron, almonds and a raspberry filling.
Patas Pipe, in the Origins line, sets creamy vanilla and chocolate on a full-bodied tobacco.

For a dessert lover, the takeaway is simple. Twelve Monkeys is a house to choose for its fruit, while desserts are better sought from makers who specialise in them. The brand still has real interest as a contrast, precisely because its recipes taste nothing like a caramel.

Formats in UK shops and the right kit

The formats on sale point straight to the kit you need. The shortfills are rich in vegetable glycerine and come without nicotine, as UK rules only allow nicotine liquid in bottles of up to 10ml.

A liquid at 65% vegetable glycerine or more is thick. It needs a coil that wicks quickly, on a tank with an airy or restricted lung draw, or the cotton dries out between puffs and fires with too little liquid.

A pod with a small coil struggles with it. The maker designed its Salts line in 50/50 for pods and mouth-to-lung tanks, in 10ml bottles within the UK ceiling of 20mg/ml, and it is the version to pick for that kind of device.

On upkeep, a fruit liquid generally clogs a coil more slowly than a caramel, without escaping the problem altogether. Tropika, the thickest, is the most demanding on the wick, and any recipe that loses its sparkle over several refills is telling you to change the coil.

FAQ

Five questions that come up about the brand, beyond choosing a recipe and a format.

What goes into Twelve Monkeys liquids?

The maker says it only uses the usual ingredients of an e-liquid, vegetable glycerine, propylene glycol, flavourings and nicotine where appropriate. It also publishes, recipe by recipe, the analytical reports required under European rules for ten of its liquids.

What is the difference between Kanzi and Kanzi Iced?

Kanzi Iced keeps the watermelon, strawberry and kiwi of Kanzi and adds a cool finish. The maker also lists a slightly lower vegetable glycerine share, 75% against 80% for the original.

Where do the recipe names come from?

Many are named after monkeys or other primates, such as Mangabeys, Galago, Saimiri, Patas or Papio, echoing the brand name. The maker’s descriptions even talk about a tribe, Tribe12M, gathering these fruits in its jungle.

Why are some recipes hard to find?

The maker itself flags several recipes as available only in select countries, including Galago, Puris and Congo Cream. The catalogue therefore varies from one market to another, and the Canadian website does not reflect what every shop stocks.

Can you mix Hakuna and Matata?

It is actually the maker’s suggestion, presented as one of its tribe’s secret recipes. Both recipes share apple, which keeps the blend coherent.

Twelve Monkeys e liquid, a fruit house to choose by profile

The Twelve Monkeys e liquid catalogue reads easily once its lines are clear. Classics gathers the complex blends, Origins the simpler and less sweet profiles, Ice Age the cooled versions. In the UK, the range mostly comes as high-VG shortfills for airy kit, with the Salts line for pods.

For a dessert lover, the Canadian house works as a counterpoint, a clean fruit recipe to slip between two caramels. That counterpoint role is where a Twelve Monkeys e liquid finds its place on a site devoted to dessert flavours.

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