Custard Monster Banana Review: Banana Pudding in a Bottle

You will get on with it if you want the range’s most convincing dessert. If banana pudding sounds appealing rather than sickly, this is the bottle, and it is the one most likely to satisfy a proper sweet craving in the evening.

Skip it if you want an all-day bottle, or you are among the many people who dislike banana in e-liquid specifically. Banana is the most polarizing flavor in vaping and this version does nothing to hedge it.

One thing worth knowing: If you have only tried banana in a candy or taffy blend and disliked it, this is a different thing. The ripe fruit reading here is much closer to real banana than the confectionery version most brands use.

Sweet ripe banana with rich, velvety custard. This is the one bottle in the range where the fruit and the base are not in tension. Banana has no acidity to speak of, and its texture note is already creamy, so instead of fruit sitting on custard you get one continuous soft dessert that lands very close to banana pudding. That makes it the richest fruit bottle here and the least refreshing. The exhale is heavy in a way none of the berry options are.

Retailer descriptions place this as the creamiest in the line and repeatedly reach for banana pudding as the reference point. Ripe rather than candied is the consistent framing for the fruit.

We have not tasted this bottle, so treat the description above as a reading of the maker’s own wording rather than our tasting notes.

The 100mL freebase bottle is mixed at 75VG/25PG. That ratio favors vapor production and a softer throat hit, which suits sub-ohm tanks, box mods and coils rated under 1.0 ohm. The thicker mix wicks slowly, so give a fresh coil a minute to saturate before the first pull.

The 30mL salt nicotine bottle is mixed at 50VG/50PG. The balanced ratio is thinner, so it feeds small pod coils without starving them, and the extra PG carries the custard base more directly than a high-VG mix does.

The more vapor your device makes per puff, the lower the strength you want. If you are between two strengths, go down rather than up: a strength that is slightly too low is a minor annoyance, and one that is too high will put you off the bottle entirely.

If you are moving away from cigarettes and unsure where to start, the vape quiz covers strength and device together in about a minute.

Match the format to the hardware. This is the single most common mistake made with a 100mL bottle.

For the 30mL salt version at 50VG/50PG, use a mouth-to-lung pod with a coil around 1.0 to 1.2 ohm. The 50/50 mix wicks fast enough for small coils and the tighter draw concentrates the custard. The Black Note Pod System is our own refillable and is built around 50/50 liquids. The Uwell Caliburn G3 Pro adds adjustable airflow, which is the main lever on how sweet this reads, and the Vaporesso XROS 6 Mini is the steadier choice for all-day carry.

For the 100mL freebase version at 75VG/25PG, go sub-ohm. A restricted direct-lung coil around 0.6 ohm is the sweet spot for a custard, giving you vapor without cooking the cream. The Vaporesso Luxe XR Max 2 handles 75VG without a full tank setup, and the Geekvape Aegis Solo 3 is the one to pick if flavor matters more to you than pocket size.

Banana rewards a little more warmth than the berry custards, because heat brings out the ripe note rather than flattening it. The trap is that the same warmth accelerates coil gunk faster here than on anything else in the range, so the wattage that tastes best is also the one that costs the most in coils. That is a genuine trade-off rather than a setting to optimise away.

Close the airflow down further than you would for a fruit bottle: a tighter draw concentrates the cream, while wide-open airflow spreads it thin and the custard starts reading as generic sweetness.

Prime a new coil properly by wetting the exposed cotton, filling, then leaving it five to ten minutes before the first pull. At 75VG the liquid moves slowly, and not waiting is the most common way to ruin a coil on day one.

Sweetened custards are the most demanding e-liquid category on coils. Sweeteners caramelize on hot wire and a cream base leaves residue of its own, so both mechanisms work against you at once. This is the second heaviest bottle in the range on coils after Butterscotch, and the warmth it rewards makes that worse. Coils darkening within a few days of regular use is this category behaving normally rather than a fault with the liquid or the hardware. This is a general statement about dessert e-liquid; we have not tested coil life on this bottle.

Three things genuinely help: run at the lower end of your coil’s range, avoid chain pulls that let the wick run dry, and rinse a pod between refills when switching flavors. Mesh coils outlast round wire here because the heat spreads across a wider surface.

If coil cost is the thing that bothers you, that is a real argument for an unsweetened blend rather than something to work around. Black Note Special Blend and Special Blend 3.0 are naturally extracted tobacco e-liquids made without added sweeteners.

The nearest thing elsewhere in the catalogue is PB & Jam Monster Banana, which pairs banana with peanut butter and toast rather than custard. It is a heavier and more savory bottle, closer to a sandwich than a pudding, and the two are worth tasting against each other if banana desserts are your thing. This one is the smoother of the pair. For the same fruit with no cream and a cold finish, Frozen Fruit Monster Banana Ice sits at the opposite end.

Custard Monster Blueberry is the sharpest bottle in the range, which is what you want in the other device to stop a banana custard becoming overwhelming.

Frozen Fruit Monster Banana Ice is the same fruit chilled and with no cream at all, which is a useful contrast if you like banana but not always the weight.

Custard Monster Banana is the most convincing dessert in the range and the least forgiving on coils. Worth it as an evening bottle if banana is a flavor you actually like.

Both formats sit on the same page, so you can pick the bottle that matches your device rather than buying twice. Shop Custard Monster Banana at Black Note.

WARNING: This product contains nicotine. Nicotine is an addictive chemical.

This is an editorial product review for adults 21 and older. It is based on the maker’s stated flavor description and on Black Note’s live product record, checked on September 25, 2026. Nobody at Black Note has vaped this bottle, so it carries no tasting notes, no score and no performance claims. Where a judgment is ours rather than the maker’s, the text says so.

Written by Jon Rankin. Custard Monster Banana is made by Monster Vape Labs and is carried by Black Note; it is not a Black Note product and does not share the naturally extracted tobacco process used in the Black Note range. This review makes no health, safety or risk comparison of any kind, in any direction.