Elux Nic Salt flavours: a tour of the fruit, ice and lemonade ranges
Elux built its name on disposables, but it also sells a nic salt e-liquid range under the Elux Legend name, sold in the small 10ml bottles that MTL pod users will already recognise. What stands out about the range isn't the format, which is fairly standard, it's the sheer number of flavours in it. This is an overview of how that range breaks down by category, fruit, ice, sour-sweet and lemonade, and how a 50/50 nic salt formulation carries flavour differently to a high-VG shortfill. It's a category description rather than a tasting review: we haven't vaped every bottle in the range ourselves, so what follows is a read of what the flavour names and formulation suggest, not a verdict on how any single one tastes.
What's actually in a 10ml bottle
Before getting into flavour, it's worth knowing what you're buying. Elux Legend nic salts come in 10ml bottles at 5mg, 10mg or 20mg strength, the last of those being the UK's regulatory cap for e-liquid nicotine. The base is a standard 50/50 PG/VG nic salt formulation, which is typical of e-liquids built for MTL pod systems rather than sub-ohm tanks. Bottles are sold as UK TPD/TRPR-compliant stock through UK distribution, and typically price around £2.49 each, though that's a general guide rather than a fixed figure since retailer pricing varies. If you're new to nic salts, or stepping down from a higher strength, Elux vape liquid 5mg is a common lower-strength starting point among UK stockists, though nicotine needs genuinely vary from person to person, so that's a starting point to consider rather than a recommendation.
Why a 50/50 nic salt carries flavour differently to a shortfill
The PG/VG ratio isn't just about vapour and throat feel, it changes how flavour actually comes across. Propylene glycol is thinner and carries flavouring molecules more efficiently, so a 50/50 mix tends to taste crisper and closer to the bottle description than a high-VG liquid does. That matters here because most nicotine shortfills, the bigger bottles typically mixed down with a separate nic shot, lean much higher in VG, often 70/30 or more, to suit sub-ohm tanks and bigger clouds. We cover exactly how that format works in our shortfills explainer. A 50/50 nic salt like this one is a genuinely different product to reach for, not just a smaller bottle of the same thing: it's built for a pod device pulling a tighter mouth-to-lung draw, and the thinner base is part of why flavour reads as sharper and more immediate on the exhale. Nic salts are also generally described as giving a smoother throat hit than an equivalent strength of freebase nicotine, which is a widely stated formulation characteristic rather than a claim about safety, and it's part of why higher strengths like 20mg are more commonly sold in salt form than in shortfill bottles.
The fruit line
Fruit is, unsurprisingly, the biggest category in the range, as it tends to be across UK vaping generally. Elux's fruit flavours lean heavily on combinations rather than single notes, Apple Peach, Blueberry Raspberry and Blue Razz Cherry among them, pairing a familiar base fruit with something sharper or more distinctive alongside it. That layering is a common pattern in nic salt ranges specifically, since a crisper 50/50 base tends to let two fruit notes sit apart from each other more clearly than a rounder high-VG mix would, where flavours tend to blend into something softer and more homogeneous.
The ice side
Alongside the straight fruit options sits a cooled range: Banana Ice, Cherry Ice and Strawberry Ice follow the familiar pattern of a fruit base with a cooling agent layered on top, while Blackcurrant Menthol reads as the more overtly minty option of the group. Based on how "ice" flavours generally work, these are unlikely to be true menthol throughout, more a fruit flavour finished with a chilled exhale. It's a distinction that trips a lot of people up when they're shelf-browsing a range like this one for the first time.
Sour, sweet and lemonade
The range also stretches into sour-sweet territory and a small but distinct lemonade category, Berry Lemonade and Pink Lemonade being the clearest examples. These sit closer to the beverage side of flavour than straight fruit does, built to read as a drink rather than a piece of fruit, usually with a sharper, slightly tart top note that a 50/50 base is well suited to carrying cleanly. Sour and sweet blends round out the range further, giving it a genuinely wide spread across roughly 50 flavours at 10mg and 20mg strength, with a smaller selection of around 20 flavours specifically available at 5mg.
Mapping the range onto flavour families you already know
If you've read our guide to how e-liquid flavour works and the main UK flavour families, none of this will look unfamiliar. Apple Peach, Blueberry Raspberry and Blue Razz Cherry sit in the fruit family, far and away the largest and most varied category in UK vaping. Banana Ice, Cherry Ice and Strawberry Ice sit in the ice family, built on a fruit base rather than true menthol in most cases, while Blackcurrant Menthol leans closer to genuine menthol. Berry Lemonade and Pink Lemonade fall into the beverage family, which is typically built to be sharper and more citrus-forward, something a 50/50 base suits well. Seeing a specific range mapped onto that broader framework tends to make browsing any nic salt shelf easier, not just this one.
What's worth checking before you pick a bottle
A wide flavour list is only genuinely useful if you can choose sensibly from it. A few practical things are worth checking first. Strength: with three options up to the UK cap of 20mg/ml, it's worth matching the bottle to what you'd normally vape rather than assuming every flavour is stocked at every strength, since the 5mg selection is noticeably smaller than the 10mg and 20mg lineup. Format: this is a 50/50 nic salt built for MTL pod systems, not a high-VG liquid for sub-ohm tanks, so it won't behave the same way in a cloud-focused setup as a shortfill would. Price: at around £2.49 a 10ml bottle, trying two or three flavours is a fairly low outlay compared with sampling a full-size shortfill, which makes this a reasonably easy range to explore without much risk. And compliance: because these are sold as UK TPD/TRPR-compliant stock, the bottle should carry the usual nicotine warning, batch code and childproof cap that any legitimate UK e-liquid needs, which is worth a quick check against our guide to reading a UK e-liquid label if anything on a bottle looks off.
A wide range to browse rather than a verdict
None of this amounts to a recommendation that this range suits every vaper, or that a 50/50 nic salt is somehow better than a shortfill, they're built for different devices and different goals. What the flavour list does offer is genuine breadth within one product line: fruit combinations, a cooled ice contingent, a more overtly minty option, and a distinct lemonade corner, all on the same 50/50 base. If you already know you prefer a pod system over a sub-ohm tank, a range this wide is worth browsing with the flavour families above in mind, so you've got a rough idea what you're picking before the bottle is already open.