Cherry Ice Hayati Pro Ultra Plus 25000 Prefilled Pod Kit

Cherry Ice in the Pro Ultra Plus kit is £11.99 for a device and a 22ml prefilled pod of 20mg nicotine salt, boxed together and usable the moment the wrapper is off. What sits in the pod is a single cooled cherry. Not a blend, not one half of a pairing, and not a cherry that has been soured to give it an edge. One red fruit with a chill on it, running the full length of the pod and then stopping.

Most listings on the Hayati Pro Ultra Plus shelf are either layered blends or two liquids held apart inside one pod. This is neither, and the plainness is the proposition rather than an omission. Nothing has to be selected, and there is no arrangement of three fruits to unpick on every draw. Whether that reads as a relief or a risk depends on how you get on with cherry over weeks rather than days.

The part of this worth reading properly is what the cold is doing to the fruit, because cherry is the one profile where cooling is not a neutral addition. Every cherry flavour ever mixed carries an almond character underneath it as a matter of chemistry rather than intention, and how much of that you actually meet depends on how much sweetness is sitting over the top of it. Cooling suppresses perceived sweetness. Strip sweetness off a cherry and the almond can surface; leave enough of it in place and the almond stays buried. Cherry Ice makes a definite choice there, and it is not the choice a lot of cooled cherries make.

Then there is the volume question. Twenty-two millilitres of one flavour through one sealed coil is a long stretch, and it is a different kind of stretch for cherry than for a fragile fruit. That gets its own section, because the answer runs against the intuition most people bring to it.

One compound, two faces: what a cherry flavour is made of

The almond is not an additive

Benzaldehyde is the material that makes a cherry flavour identifiable as cherry. It is also what people recognise in marzipan and in the smell of a cracked stone fruit pit, which is why almond keeps appearing in a liquid that contains no almond whatsoever. Flesh and kernel sit a few millimetres apart in the fruit and share their aromatic chemistry, so a flavourist cannot divide them the way a grower can. A cherry recipe is a dosing decision before it is anything else: how much kernel to let through, and what to lay over the top of it.

Dose it low and the fruit thins out, reading like a red boiled sweet rather than anything that grew, all brightness and no floor under it. Dose it high and the profile deepens and takes on a wine-like weight, then keeps going until the almond stops being the floor and becomes the ceiling. Past that point the liquid tastes of flavouring rather than fruit, and the medicinal reading people complain about in cherry vapes is almost always an over-dosed kernel rather than a cheap one.

Hayati publish nothing about the composition of their concentrates, so none of the above is a statement about what is in this pod. It is how the category works, offered because it explains what you are tasting better than more adjectives would.

Why cold changes that decision rather than just the temperature

Cooling agents do not lower the temperature of anything. They act on the receptors that report cold, so the sensation arrives without any heat leaving the vapour. The consequence that matters for cherry is a well documented quirk of perception: a mouth that is registering cold registers less sweetness from the same amount of sugar. Chilled drinks taste drier than warm ones for exactly this reason, and a cooled liquid behaves the same way.

Put those two facts together and the problem with cooled cherry is obvious. Sweetness is what keeps the kernel note underneath the fruit. Thin the mask out and what emerges from behind it is the almond, which is why a lot of cherry ices read harder and more chemical than their uncooled versions despite nothing having changed in the fruit. The cold did not add anything. It removed what was covering something else up.

So the useful question about any chilled cherry is not how cold it is. It is whether the recipe has been built to survive the cold pulling its sweetness down.

Which way this one goes

This one buries the kernel rather than exposing it, and there are three reasons for that which you can taste separately once you know to look for them.

The first is placement. The chill here is a finish rather than a front note. It is barely present on the inhale and arrives properly on the exhale, which means the sweetness gets to register first, at full strength, before anything has started suppressing it. A pod built the other way round, with cooling running through the whole draw, would have the fruit fighting the suppression from the first instant. This one gets a clear run at you.

The second is the fruit itself. The cherry is pitched ripe rather than tart, and there is no acid snap anywhere in it. That matters because acid and cold pull in the same direction: both make a profile read drier and thinner, and stacking them is how you end up with a cherry that tastes like a throat pastille. With no acid in the mix, the fruit arrives fleshy and full, and there is more sweet material available to do the covering.

The third is the length of the finish. A kernel note is slow, heavy and late. It shows up in the tail of an exhale, in the part that hangs around after the fruit itself has gone. A cold finish is short by nature, resetting the palate within twenty seconds or so, and cutting the tail short takes away the stretch of the draw where almond would otherwise have its moment. You are simply not given long enough to notice it.

The upshot is that you have to go looking for the almond here. It is present, as it is in everything cherry-flavoured, but it sits under the fruit as depth rather than over it as a flavour. Anyone who finds marzipan unpleasant and has written cherry liquids off for that reason will find this a more forgiving version than most. One condition attaches to that, and it concerns the end of the pod rather than the start.

The draw, front to back

The inhale opens wide and soft. Nothing spikes, nothing catches, and the fruit is recognisable inside the first half second because there is nothing else in the pod for your palate to sort through. It reads red and wet, and the wetness is an impression made by sugars in solution rather than by acidity, which is the distinction between a juicy cherry and a sharp one.

Through the middle of the draw the body fills in underneath. This is where the ripeness sits, and it is the densest part of the profile, closer to dark glacé fruit than to a fresh sharp cherry off the stalk. Throat character stays mild here. The 20mg salt is doing what salt does at that strength, and because no acid is layered on top there is no second source of bite arriving with it.

The cold lands on the exhale, and it lands as a clear event rather than a gradual one. The sweetness steps back, the fruit narrows slightly, and the finish comes out crisp and dry instead of syrupy. That last transition is the whole design of the pod: without it the ripeness would sit heavy on the tongue and start coating after a dozen draws. With it, the draw closes itself off and leaves you ready for the next one.

Twenty seconds later your mouth is neutral again, with a faint residual coolness and very little fruit left behind. Over a long session that runs opposite to a warm pod: an uncooled sweet liquid accumulates on the palate until everything tastes the same, while this one keeps clearing itself. The trade is that a pod which resets itself is easy to reach for more often than you intended.

Sweetness, which is really two measurements

Two numbers are worth separating here, because they do not match on a cooled liquid and conflating them is how people end up surprised by a worn coil.

The first is what you taste. On a scale where a bare citrus is a two and a candyfloss profile is a nine, this reads about a five and a half in use. Sweet, not remotely cloying, and lighter than the ripeness of the fruit would suggest.

The second is what the coil sees. Perceived sweetness having been knocked down by the cooling does nothing at all to the amount of sweetener present, and the mesh is heating exactly the same quantity of it. Judged that way the liquid is somewhere around a seven, sitting a fair distance above the citrus and lemonade profiles on the shelf and a fair distance below the confectionery ones. The gap between the two numbers is the single most useful thing to understand about living with an iced sweet pod, and it comes back in the coil section below.

For the avoidance of doubt about where it lands relative to its neighbours: sweeter than a lean lemonade like Blackcurrant Lemonade, and clearly less sweet than a gummy pairing such as Grape GB / Blue Razz GB, where both halves are built on the same sugared confectionery idea and there is nothing cold anywhere to take the edge off.

What this pod is not

• Not sour. There is no pucker and no deliberate tartness. If a sharp red fruit is what you want, a cranberry-led blend does that job and one is available opposite this very liquid in Straw’ Cranberry Cherry / Cherry Ice.
• Not a mint or menthol pod. The cooling has no flavour of its own. There is no herbal quality, no spearmint sweetness and no eucalyptus lift, just a temperature sensation over fruit. For cooling as the main event rather than a finish, Fresh Mint / Blue Razz Mint is the kit built around that idea.
• Not a cola or a soft drink. No spice rack, no citrus oils, no fizz impression. The chilled soft-drink treatment on this hardware is Cola Ice, which has no fruit character in it at all, and a cherry-and-cola crossover exists on other hardware as Cherry Cola Pro Max Plus pods.
• Not a berry stack. Cherry does not sit on top of a mixed-berry bed here. That construction is Cherry Berry, where the cherry leads and an unnamed soft red blend fills in beneath it.
• Not a dessert. No pastry, no cream, no vanilla rounding. It is fruit and cold and nothing else.
• Not a pairing. Single flavour throughout, so there is no switching to be done at any point.

Who tends to get on with it

Two groups, for opposite reasons. The first already wants cherry and has been put off by versions that turned syrupy or medicinal, which is the standard complaint about the fruit. The cold here corrects both, and it works. The second wants an iced pod without the fruit being reduced to a vehicle for the chill, which plenty of ice listings do. The balance here runs the other way.

The buyer this suits least is the one who needs contrast to stay engaged. Nothing in this pod changes except gradually and in one direction, and there is no second liquid to turn to. If your recent purchases have been deliberate sweet-against-sharp pairings like Blue Razz GB / Lemon & Lime, a single profile across the whole volume is likely to feel underpowered by the second week. Better to know that now than at the halfway mark.

Twenty-two millilitres of one cold cherry: the volume question

The Pro Ultra Plus kit shelf sets out what this platform is and how a 25,000 rating should be read as workload on a single coil, so none of that is repeated here. What follows is the narrower question that only a single-flavour listing raises, and the answer for cherry specifically is not the same as the answer for a fruit with a lighter build.

Cherry is made of durable material

Flavour compounds are not equally fragile, and where a profile keeps its identity determines how it behaves in a large pod. A citrus liquid lives at the top of the volatility range, in light aromatic material that a warm coil drives off first. That is why a lemon pod at 18ml so often reads as merely sweet: the part that made it lemon has gone and the sugar underneath has not. Light melon and pear have the same problem for the same reason.

Cherry sits lower down. Benzaldehyde is a comparatively heavy, robust molecule, and the supporting materials that give cherry its flesh and depth are heavier too. There is very little sitting at the fragile top of this profile in the first place, which means there is very little for a large pod to take away. A cherry pod at 18ml is still recognisably cherry rather than recognisably sweet. On the fade axis, this is one of the better candidates for 22ml in the entire range, and considerably better than a delicate fruit would be.

What drifts is the balance, not the volume

Here is the catch, and it is the reason a cooled cherry cannot be waved through the format question on volatility alone. What a cherry pod loses is not loudness. It is balance.

Recall the arrangement: fruit and kernel come from the same chemistry, and what decides which you notice is the sweetness over the top. As a coil accumulates residue and runs warmer, the lighter fruit-facing material mutes first while the heavy kernel register does not, and the profile darkens generally as any tired mesh darkens everything. The ratio between fruit and almond therefore shifts, slowly and in one direction, towards almond.

A fading citrus goes quiet, and quiet is easy to ignore. A drifting cherry goes marzipan, which is a change of flavour rather than a change of level, and harder to overlook even though it arrives later.

The coolant outlasts the fruit, which cuts both ways

Cooling agents are chemically stable and they are not aromatic in the way flavour compounds are, so they hold up through a pod's whole life almost unchanged. Late in this pod you will still be getting a crisp cold finish when the fruit behind it has started to narrow.

That is mostly good, and it is why cooled profiles suit big formats: the pod stays refreshing after it has stopped being interesting. But it is also the second half of the kernel problem. The chill suppresses your perception of sweetness at 20ml exactly as efficiently as it did at 2ml, while the sweetness available to be suppressed has fallen, because a residue-laden coil delivers less of everything. Less mask, the same suppression, and a warmer coil pushing the heavy register forward. All three point one way.

So the almond you did not meet at the start of the pod is what meets you at the end of it. That is useful rather than alarming, because it is a clear signal. On most pods the cue that a coil has finished is a general thinning, easy to miss and easy to talk yourself out of. Here it is specific: when marzipan sits on top of the fruit instead of underneath it, the pod is done, and nothing will bring the balance back.

So is this a better or worse candidate than a delicate fruit?

Better, on balance, and for a reason worth stating plainly rather than hedging. A delicate fruit in a 22ml pod spends its last third as a weaker version of itself, a slow disappointment with no clear end point, and people habitually push those pods for days past the point of enjoyment because nothing ever definitively goes wrong. Cherry holds its identity much longer, and when it goes, it goes decisively. You get more good pod and a worse final stretch instead of a long, even decline, which on a coil that cannot be swapped or rested is the better of the two deals.

The remaining risk is not chemical, it is attention. One flavour for weeks is a lot of one flavour, and cherry is a distinctive profile rather than a background one. If that is the part you doubt, the same liquid is available at roughly half the exposure inside two pairings, covered below, and that is the more cautious way to find out.

The kit itself, in short

What arrives

Hardware and liquid as one purchase: the device plus a sealed prefilled Cherry Ice pod, ready to draw on with nothing to fill, prime, measure or wait for. Worth being precise about, because the shelf carries both halves of the range and they look similar in a grid. Most of what sits alongside this listing is pods on their own at £7.99, which will not produce anything without a device to fit them to. This one at £11.99 is the version that includes the device.

One coil, and no way to service it

The pod carries one mesh coil, permanently fitted, handling all 22ml. It cannot be removed, replaced, rinsed or rested, and when the pod is spent the coil retires with it. That runs across the whole format, and the Hayati Pods shelf sets the larger prefilled formats against the smaller ones if you want to compare volumes before committing.

Because the listing holds one flavour, there is no selection to make anywhere on the device. Some pods in this family carry two liquids and provide a way to choose between them; this is not one of those, and nothing on it needs adjusting before or during use. If you have arrived here from a dual listing, the absence is deliberate rather than a fault.

Draw character, and where the published facts stop

The draw is restricted mouth-to-lung. The airway is narrow, and the liquid and strength are built around a slow, measured pull. Dragging on it will not extract more cherry; it produces a hotter, thinner draw and takes liquid off the wick faster than it can be replaced, and on a cooled profile the first casualty of that is the crispness of the finish.

Hayati publish a short list of numbers for this kit and it is best to stay inside it. Capacity, strength, price and the puff rating are documented. The charging connector is not, so this page will not name one, and neither battery capacity nor charge time is published either. Figures quoted for those elsewhere are somebody's inference, and inferences have a habit of being copied between listings until they look like facts. If one of them decides the purchase, ask before ordering.

The published numbers, and the one nobody publishes

Product	Cherry Ice Hayati Pro Ultra Plus 25000 Prefilled Pod Kit
Brand	Hayati
SKU	HPU-25K-KIT-CHERRY-ICE
Price	£11.99
Format	Complete kit: device and prefilled pod together
Flavour	Cherry Ice, one flavour throughout
Capacity	22ml
Nicotine	20mg nicotine salt
Puff rating	Rated by the manufacturer at up to 25,000 puffs, a laboratory figure
Cooling level	Not quantified by the manufacturer
Preparation	None, the pod is supplied filled and sealed
Replacement pods	Listed separately at £7.99
Shelves	Pro Ultra Plus kits, Cherry Vapes, Ice Vapes, Hayati Pods, Prefilled Pods & Refills, New Products

Most of those rows are inventory. Three of them change the product in your hand, and one of them is a blank that deserves more attention than the numbers do.

The blank first. Cooling has no published figure anywhere in this range, and it is the specification buyers most often want. No scale, no percentage, no menthol content. The word "Ice" in the product name is the entire manufacturer statement on the subject, and it is a category marker rather than a measurement. This page describes the cooling as a finish rather than a through-draw sensation because that is how the profile is built, but nobody can hand you a number for it, and a listing that offers one is making it up. That matters more here than on a warm pod, since the intensity of the chill is what governs how much kernel you meet.

Of the published numbers, capacity is the one that reshapes the purchase. Twenty-two millilitres is not a few days, it is a piece of hardware you will own for weeks, and every judgement on this page about drift, balance and palate fatigue follows from that rather than from the flavour in isolation.

Strength is fixed at the UK ceiling with no option attached, so a different figure means a different product rather than a variant of this one. Salt rather than freebase is standard at that concentration because of how it behaves through a narrow airway. Nicotine is an addictive substance, and which strength suits a person is their own decision rather than something a product page should steer.

The puff rating comes off a machine drawing at a fixed length and interval until the pod is dry, which makes it a fair basis for setting two products side by side and a poor basis for predicting a fortnight of your own use.

Finally the arithmetic, which is short. The identical pod without hardware is £7.99, so the difference between the two listings is £4 and that £4 is the device. Buy it once.

Choosing this over its neighbours

The same pod without the device

Cherry Ice Hayati Pro Ultra Plus 25K Pods is this exact liquid, the same 22ml at the same strength, minus the hardware, at £7.99. If a Pro Ultra Plus device is already in your pocket then that listing is what you want and this one is £4 wasted. The kit listing exists for a first purchase or a hardware replacement, and there is no other difference between them worth knowing about.

Cherry Ice as half of something else

This liquid turns up inside two pairings, which is the useful hedge if 22ml of one cherry is more commitment than you want. Cherry Ice / Peach Mango sets it opposite a warm tropical blend, close to the ideal contrast: one cold and red, one warm and soft, almost nothing shared. The pod-only version is Cherry Ice / Peach Mango pods.

Straw’ Cranberry Cherry / Cherry Ice is the other one, and it is a narrower comparison because both sides are red and both involve cherry. What you gain there is a tart, layered blend with cranberry dryness to set against the chilled single note, so the contrast is in structure rather than in fruit family. It is the better pick if you specifically want two red options and the worse pick if you want genuine variety.

Either way the trade is the same: roughly half the volume of cherry in exchange for an escape route already in your pocket. On a pod this size there is no shame in taking the cautious option.

The other cherries, and what each does differently

Cherry appears across this catalogue in more forms than the shared word suggests, and none of the others is a substitute for a chilled single note.

Blue Razz Cherry uses cherry as depth underneath blue raspberry rather than as the lead. The tang sits on top and the cherry fills the profile out from below, which is close to the reverse of what happens here. It also exists as a pairing in Blue Razz Cherry / Blue Razz GB for anyone who wants the same tang treated two ways.

Cherry Berry keeps cherry at the front but puts a soft, unnamed red blend underneath it, so it is layered and warm where this is single and cold. Blueberry Raspberry / Blueberry Raspberry Cherry is an intensity step instead, adding a dark cherry layer to a two-berry base on one side only, and its pods-only sibling is the same pairing at £7.99. On other hardware, Cherry Peach Lemon frames cherry with citrus and stone fruit, three legible layers where this pod gives one.

The full set of cherry treatments across every Hayati format sits on the cherry vapes shelf, which is the fastest way to see how many directions one fruit has been taken in.

The other cold listings at this price

Every kit on this shelf is £11.99, so value plays no part in choosing between them and fit is the only question left.

Strawberry Ice / Strawberry Raspberry Ice is the closest direct rival: cooled red fruit again, split across one berry and two, with the intensity step built in. Strawberry is softer than cherry and carries no kernel character at all, which makes it the easier profile and the less interesting one. Its second half is sold alone as Strawberry Raspberry Ice.

Cola Ice takes cooling somewhere else entirely, over a fizzy soft-drink base with no fruit involved, and is available without hardware as Cola Ice pods. H’Berg / P’Man sits at the heavy end of the cold spectrum, with a menthol run that carries long past the exhale and a faint aniseed thread, and it makes the cooling here look restrained. Everything chilled across the ranges is gathered under ice vapes.

The pairing to avoid is worth naming too. Buying this alongside another cold pod is the most common two-pod mistake, because cooling is the loudest variable in any profile and two chilled pods blur together within a week however different their fruit lists look. Pair a cold red with something warm and structurally opposed instead.

Cherry on smaller hardware

If 22ml is too large a first commitment, the same fruit appears in smaller formats on other systems. Cherry Ice Hayati Mini Ultra Pods at £3.49 are the least expensive way to find out whether a chilled cherry suits you at all. Cherry Berry Mini Ultra pods sit at the same price in the warm layered version, Cherry Berry Pro Max Plus pods at £5.49 are the middle option, and Blue Razz Cherry appears on both the Rubik and Mini Ultra systems for under £4 if the cherry-under-blue-raspberry reading is what interests you.

Each of those needs its own device, so a small pod is only a cheap trial when the matching hardware is already in a drawer. Otherwise the trial costs more than the thing it is testing. Every prefilled option across all the systems is laid out on prefilled pods and refills, and Blackberry Ice Pro Max Plus pods are the nearest small-format equivalent if a cooled dark fruit rather than cherry is the actual target. Recent arrivals sit under new products, and the whole range is browsable at the full Hayati catalogue.

Living with a cold red pod for several weeks

General pod advice applies here as it does anywhere, so this section sticks to the parts that are specific to a cooled, moderately sweet single fruit in a large format. What matters for this pod is not what matters for a citrus or a candyfloss.

Watch for marzipan, not for weakness. The standard cue that a coil is finished is the flavour thinning out, and on an iced pod that cue is unreliable, because the cooling holds up long after the fruit has started to narrow and keeps the draw feeling lively. The honest signal on this profile is the balance tipping towards almond. When the kernel note moves from underneath the fruit to on top of it, the pod is done, and no amount of resting it will reverse that.

Space your draws out, because cooling fatigues fast. Cold receptors adapt more quickly than taste does. Draw in rapid succession and the chill stops registering within a handful of puffs while the sweetness keeps arriving at full strength, so a pod that started crisp begins reading warm and sugary. That is perception rather than anything happening inside the pod. Fifteen or twenty seconds between draws brings the cold back, and it is the single change that makes the most difference here.

Keep the pod out of the heat. A warm pod does not lose its coolant, which is stable, but it does push the fruit towards a stewed, jammy reading, and a cooked cherry and a cold finish stop belonging to each other. A glovebox in summer will do this in a day. Somewhere cool, dark and stable is the whole requirement, and out of the way of children and pets goes without saying.

Cold rooms make it read harsher. The same pod on a winter pavement is noticeably sharper than indoors, because ambient temperature shifts where the cooling sensation starts from. Nothing has changed in the liquid, so check the weather before blaming the coil.

Do not judge it in the first few draws. A fresh pod runs a little wet until the wick settles, which on this profile presents as heavier and sweeter than the liquid is, with the cooling muffled underneath. Give it twenty or thirty draws before deciding how cold it really is.

Rotate with something warm, not something cold. If you keep two pods going, make the other one uncooled. The palate registers temperature more emphatically than it registers fruit, so alternating two iced pods gives you far less variety than the flavour names promise.

Order the refill before the current pod ends. A 22ml pod winds down gradually rather than stopping, and the temptation is to run a tired coil for a few more days because it is still producing something. Since the almond drift is the end signal here, that last stretch is the least pleasant part of the pod rather than merely the weakest. Having the £7.99 replacement already in the house removes the incentive to push it.

Questions buyers ask about this one

Is it sweet or sour?

Sweet, with no sourness in it at all. The cherry is pitched at ripe fruit rather than at a tart one, so there is no acid snap on the inhale and no pucker on the finish. The cooling is what keeps it from sitting heavy, doing the job that acidity does in a sharper red profile.

How cold does it actually get?

Moderately, and as a finish rather than throughout. The chill is barely present on the inhale and arrives properly on the exhale, leaving a crisp, short tail. It is well short of a menthol pod, and if a long cold run is what you are after, the heavy-menthol pairings on this shelf go considerably further.

Why do cherry liquids sometimes taste of almond, and does this one?

Because cherry and almond share the same core aroma chemistry, so a kernel note comes with the fruit rather than being added to it. In this pod it sits underneath as depth and you have to go looking for it, mostly because the cooling lands late and the finish is short. It becomes easier to notice near the end of the pod's life.

Is this one flavour or two?

One, throughout the whole 22ml. Several listings in this family hold two liquids and let you choose between them, but this is not one of those and there is nothing on the device to set. Cherry Ice does appear as half of two pairings if you would rather have the option.

What does the £11.99 buy that the £7.99 listing does not?

The device. Both listings hold 22ml of the same liquid at the same strength, and the £4 between them is hardware. If you already own a Pro Ultra Plus, order the pod on its own and keep the £4.

Can I refill the pod or change the coil?

Neither. The coil is built into the pod and retires with it, and the pod is supplied sealed and filled. When it is finished you fit a fresh one rather than servicing the old one, which is the trade for a prefilled pod holding this much liquid.

Is the 25,000 figure any use to me?

As a comparison between products, yes. As a prediction of your own use, no. It is generated by machine at a fixed draw length and interval, so it tells you how this pod stands against another one and very little about a fortnight in your pocket. The kit shelf explains why reading it as coil workload is more informative.

Is there a lower nicotine strength?

Not on this listing. It is supplied at 20mg nicotine salt with no strength options attached, which is standard across nearly everything in this format. A different strength means choosing a different product rather than a different version of this one, and nicotine is an addictive substance whichever figure is on the box.

Will the cooling fade before the cherry does?

The other way round. Cooling agents are stable and hold up through the whole pod, while the fruit narrows as the coil accumulates residue. That is generally an advantage on a large pod, since the finish stays crisp, but it also means less sweetness is being masked late on, which is what brings the almond note forward.

How will I know when the pod is finished?

Look for the change in balance rather than a drop in strength. When marzipan starts sitting over the fruit instead of under it, and the draw runs warmer and drier at the same time, the coil has reached the end of its working life. On an iced pod the usual thinning cue is muffled by the cooling, so this is the more reliable signal.

Which charging cable does it take?

The specification for this kit does not state a connector, so we will not name one. The same applies to battery capacity and charge time, none of which Hayati publish for this device. Figures quoted for those on other listings are assumptions, so ask us before ordering if that detail decides it for you.

Is the Cherry Ice in the pairings the same liquid as this?

It is the same profile, sold at a different level of commitment. A pairing gives you roughly half as much of it with a second liquid held apart in the same pod, so you get the cherry plus a change of direction rather than 22ml of cherry. Which is better depends purely on how certain you are about the fruit.

The short version

Cherry Ice in the Pro Ultra Plus kit is £11.99 for a device and a 22ml prefilled pod at 20mg nicotine salt, rated by the manufacturer at up to 25,000 puffs as a laboratory figure. One cooled cherry runs the whole length of it, with no blending, no pairing and nothing to select.

The fruit is ripe rather than tart, the sweetness sits above the middle of the shelf but reads lower than it measures because cold suppresses how sweet a thing tastes, and the chill arrives as a short finish on the exhale rather than running through the draw. That placement is what keeps the almond side of cherry underneath the fruit instead of on top of it, which is the failure mode of a great many cooled cherries.

On the volume question, cherry is a stronger candidate for a 22ml pod than a delicate fruit would be, because its identity lives in heavy, durable material with very little fragile top end to lose. What shifts instead is the balance, drifting towards marzipan as the coil ages, which is a clearer end signal than a slow fade and arrives later. Refills are £7.99, so buy the hardware once and the pods after that.

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