Frozen Fruit Monster Black Cherry Ice Review: Dark Cherry, Light Chill

You will get on with it if you want an iced fruit that is barely iced. The chill here is a finishing touch rather than a feature, which makes this the best Frozen bottle for someone coming from uniced fruit who wants to try the category without committing.

Skip it if you want the cooling to be noticeable. If you are buying an ice bottle for the ice, Strawberry Kiwi Pomegranate Ice or Mixed Berry Ice deliver considerably more of it.

One thing worth knowing: Dark fruits mute faster than bright ones on an ageing coil, and with only one fruit here there is nothing left to carry the bottle when it goes. This is the Frozen flavor where a fresh coil makes the biggest difference.

Classic black cherry sweetness with a hint of chill. Black cherry is a dark, jammy fruit with more body than acidity, so it sits closer to a cherry preserve than to a fresh cherry. The single fruit means nothing competes with it.

The cooling is the lightest of the seven. Where the tropical and berry bottles lead with an icy exhale, this one lands as a cherry with a cold edge, and the fruit stays in front throughout.

Retailer copy describes this as a classic cherry and consistently notes the chill as light or subtle, which is the detail that separates it from the rest of the Frozen line.

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 is a vapor-forward ratio suited to sub-ohm tanks, box mods and coils rated under 1.0 ohm, and it carries the cooling well because a larger vapor volume spreads the chill across the draw rather than concentrating it in the throat.

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 makes both the fruit and the menthol read more directly. The same cooling feels sharper in a 50/50 pod than in a 75VG tank.

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 around 1.0 to 1.2 ohm. The tighter draw keeps the cooling controlled, and the 50/50 mix wicks fast enough that you will not chase dry hits. 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. This blend rewards a restricted direct-lung coil around 0.6 ohm more than a wide-open cloud setup, because big airflow thins the fruit and leaves the menthol standing alone. 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.

Because the cooling is light, this bottle tolerates the middle of a coil’s range better than the icier ones, where more power means more chill. The limit here is the cherry rather than the menthol, and cherry flattens into generic sweetness if you push it.

Airflow matters more on an iced blend than on a dessert. Opening it up makes the cooling feel sharper and more spread out; closing it down concentrates the fruit and warms the draw. If the blend feels too cold, close the airflow before you drop the wattage, because closing it keeps more of the fruit.

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.

Iced fruit is generally kinder to coils than a sweetened dessert, because there is no bakery or cream residue to caramelize. It is not free, though. This blend is sweetened, and sweetener is what darkens a coil. Dark sweet fruit with no citrus to cut it, so it sits at the heavier end for an iced bottle. Expect shorter coil life than an unsweetened tobacco liquid and longer than you would get from a custard. This is a general statement about sweetened iced fruit; we have not tested coil life on this bottle.

Two habits specific to cold liquids. Cooling agents leave a faint residue that carries into the next flavor, so rinse a pod before switching to something warm. And avoid chain pulls at high power, which is the fastest way to a dry hit here because the menthol masks the early warning taste that usually tells you to stop.

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 uniced Fruit Monster Black Cherry is the closest pair in the whole catalogue, because the cooling here is so restrained that the two bottles taste more alike than any other iced and plain twin. If you already own the plain one, this is the least necessary upgrade in the range.

Jam Monster Black Cherry takes the same fruit somewhere else entirely, spreading it over buttered toast. That is the bottle to compare against if you want cherry as a dessert rather than as a fruit.

Fruit Monster Black Cherry is the uniced original, which given how light the chill is here is a closer pair than most iced and plain twins.

Custard Monster Blackberry is the same dark fruit register on cream, for a warmer second bottle.

The lightest chill in the range and the best starting point for anyone unsure about iced fruit. Just be aware how close it sits to the uniced version before buying both.

Both formats sit on the same page, so you can pick the bottle that matches your device rather than buying twice. Shop Frozen Fruit Monster Black Cherry Ice 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. Frozen Fruit Monster Black Cherry Ice 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.