Custard Monster Butterscotch Review: Butterscotch Over Custard

You will get on with it if you want the richest thing in the range and you are not trying to make one bottle last all day. Butterscotch is a strong evening or after-food flavor, and it holds up in a bigger device where the extra vapor spreads the sweetness out.

Skip it if you are sensitive to sweeteners, or you want a single all-day bottle. This is the one most likely to fatigue the palate by mid afternoon. Custard Monster Vanilla is the same base with the volume turned down.

One thing worth knowing: If you have found other butterscotch e-liquids cloying, the thing that usually causes that is running them too warm. Butterscotch is a high-sugar profile and heat pushes it towards burnt sugar quickly.

Sweet, buttery golden butterscotch over creamy custard. The butterscotch reads as cooked sugar and butter rather than caramel, which is a finer distinction than it sounds: caramel tends to go bitter at the edges, and this does not. The custard base is smooth rather than eggy and carries the butterscotch without burying it. It is a rounder and heavier exhale than any fruit e-liquid, and it is the richest bottle in the Custard Monster range. Whether that is a recommendation depends entirely on your tolerance for sweetness over a long session.

Retailer descriptions consistently use the words buttery and golden, and place it as the sweetest in the Custard Monster line. Several note it reads closer to a butterscotch sauce than a hard butterscotch sweet.

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.

Butterscotch has the narrowest usable power window in this range. Too low and it reads as plain sweet cream with the butter missing; too high and it turns towards burnt sugar. Find the middle and leave it there rather than chasing more vapor.

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. Butterscotch is the heaviest bottle in this range on coils. High sugar content plus a cream base is the worst combination for coil life there is. 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.

Within the range this is the loud one. Vanilla is the same base turned down, and the five fruit custards all use the fruit to cut the sweetness in a way Butterscotch does not. Outside the range, The Milk Cinnamon is the closest thing to a comparable warm dessert, built on cereal milk rather than custard. It is drier and spiced where this is sweet and buttery, and it is the easier of the two to stay on for a full day.

Custard Monster Vanilla is the same custard base without the butterscotch, which is the natural daytime bottle if this one is your evening bottle.

Fruit Monster Mango Peach Guava is something bright and uncreamy for the other device, to reset the palate between sessions.

Custard Monster Butterscotch is the richest bottle in the range and knows it. Treat it as an evening flavor, keep the power in the middle of your coil’s range, and budget for coils.

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