When Vape Wild shut down, a lot of vapers lost flavors they had been buying for years. The brand was known for its 35/65 PG/VG blends and for sticking to freebase nicotine: it never followed the move to nic salt. Its range ran from fruit and creamy desserts through to menthol and tobacco, with names like Hannibal Nectar and Tiger’s Blood that regulars still remember.
A range that wide is hard to replace one for one. Other makers moved quickly once the discontinuation was announced, and we went through our own catalog looking for the e-liquids that come nearest to each Vape Wild favorite. None of them is an exact copy. Each one is our pick for the same general taste, and below we say where it differs.
Quick reference: Vape Wild flavor and our substitute
| Vape Wild flavor | What it tasted like | Our alternative |
|---|---|---|
| Murica | Cherry, raspberry, lemon and lime | Candy King Worms |
| Ice Cold | Menthol | Air Factory Menthol |
| Hannibal Nectar | Peach, melon, tangy orange and mixed berries | Twist Eliquid Cocktail Blend |
| Cowboy Cooler | Frozen mixed berry | Frozen Fruit Monster Mixed Berry Ice |
| Surf Cake | Blueberry cheesecake | BSX Blueberry Cake |
| (S+C)2 | Strawberry, coconut and cream | Nude S.C.P. |
| Buttered Beer | Butterscotch and vanilla | Custard Monster Butterscotch |
| On Cloud Custard | Vanilla custard | Vapetasia Killer Kustard |
| Stardust | Melon, cucumber and mixed fruit | Candy King Tropic King Cucumber Cooler |
| Blue Harvest | Blueberry with watermelon lemonade | Coastal Clouds Blueberry Limeade |
| Menthol Type | Menthol tobacco | Kilo Mint Tobacco |
| Strawberry WaterFelons | Strawberry and watermelon | Strawberry Watermelon Refresher by Barista Brew Co. |
| Kiwi Berry | Kiwi and strawberry | Juice Head Strawberry Kiwi |
| Stoned Age | Fruit cereal | Bad Drip Labs Cereal Trip |
| Rainbow Crunch | Sweet breakfast cereal | Holy Cannoli Fruit Cereal |
| Double Rainbow | Fruity cereal loops | Vapetasia Rainbow Road |
| Tiger’s Blood | Strawberry, watermelon and coconut | Strawberry Pineapple Coconut by Coastal Clouds |
| Wrangler | Tobacco | Classic from Badger Hill Reserve (Verdict Vapors) |
| Spearmint | Spearmint | Verdict Vapors Mints Spearmint |
| Pinkle Twinkle | Mixed sweets | Candy King Berry Dweebz |
Fruit blends
Hannibal Nectar: try Twist Eliquid Cocktail Blend
Vape Wild liked an odd name, and that was part of its appeal. Hannibal Nectar was friendlier than it sounds: Georgia peach, Florida orange, melon and wild mixed berries in one fruit-heavy juice.
To replace a juice built on a pile of fruit, we wanted another multi-fruit blend. Cocktail Blend from Twist Eliquid uses three: strawberry, watermelon and tangy kiwi. It is listed as a 70/30 PG/VG mix, which is easy on coils.
(S+C)2: try Nude S.C.P.
The name was a joke on a maths formula, and the sum does not really work, but the juice did: strawberry and coconut covered in sweet cream, a fruit vape with a dessert side.
Nude took the fruit-trio idea made familiar by some of the earliest brands and built on it with stronger fruit in a thicker liquid. S.C.P. is a 70/30 VG/PG blend of strawberry, creamy coconut and ripe pineapple, and it is one of the line’s most requested bottles. You lose the cream here and gain a tangy pineapple note in its place.
Blue Harvest: try Coastal Clouds Blueberry Limeade
Blueberry turned up in a good share of the Vape Wild menu. Blue Harvest paired it with watermelon lemonade for a crisp fruit drink flavor, and it was among the harder ones to match.
Lemonade juices are common. Coastal Clouds went with limeade, so the citrus is tart green lime where most brands use lemon, and we think lime suits sweet blueberry well. There is no watermelon in this one, though we doubt many people will miss it.
Strawberry WaterFelons: try Barista Brew Co. Strawberry Watermelon
Some long-time fans joked that dropping this flavor was a crime, in keeping with its name. It was a straightforward strawberry and watermelon juice, and a well liked one.
Barista Brew Co.’s Refresher covers the same two fruits and is modelled on a drink from a well-known green-and-white coffee chain. It is sold with menthol and without, and it is mild on coils. In our view it holds up against the original, and may beat it.
Kiwi Berry: try Juice Head Strawberry Kiwi
Strawberry and kiwi is a classic pairing, and Vape Wild’s version mixed sweet summer berries with green kiwi.
Plenty of fruit juices pack in so many fruits that the result turns vague. Juice Head keeps to the two: sun-ripened strawberry and ripe kiwi, with the blend building through both inhale and exhale. It matches Kiwi Berry closely.
Tiger’s Blood: try Coastal Clouds Strawberry Pineapple Coconut
An unusual mix of strawberry, watermelon and creamy coconut, and a top seller for Vape Wild. We have no exact match for it.
The nearest thing on our shelves is this Coastal Clouds trio, which reads like a beach fruit cocktail: lush strawberry lifted by sweet pineapple juice, rounded off with coconut cream. Pineapple stands in for the watermelon. We actually like it more than Tiger’s Blood, and it has a large following of its own.
Stardust: try Tropic King Cucumber Cooler
Stardust was a curiosity: honeydew melon and mixed fruit with cucumber. Some vapers hold that a vegetable has no business in a fruit juice. We disagree, and cucumber was once a popular perfume scent, after all.
Candy King’s Cucumber Cooler, from its Tropic King line, is worth a try before you rule it out. It sets strong watermelon and tangy lime against something cool, and the cucumber works as the link between them, not as an obvious vegetable taste.
Menthol, mint and iced flavors
Ice Cold: try Air Factory Menthol
Ice Cold was plain menthol with no added flavor, and menthol fans took to it at once. Its high VG mix was hard to match, so we chose a substitute with the more usual 70/30 VG/PG ratio. Whether that is close enough is your call.
Air Factory’s Menthol is equally simple: a crisp, clean chill and nothing else. The taste stays steady with heavy use, so it suits all-day menthol vapers and those who only want a palate cleanser now and then.
Cowboy Cooler: try Frozen Fruit Monster Mixed Berry Ice
This was iced mixed berry: strawberry, raspberry, blackberry and blueberry, all chilled, in the 65/35 VG/PG blend that few other makers use.
Mixed Berry Ice comes out of Monster Vape Labs and lists the same four berries with cooling menthol. It is a 75/25 VG/PG juice, so the ratio is not identical, but the sweet fruit and the cold are both there, and it works in any season.
Spearmint: try Verdict Vapors Mints Spearmint
Alongside its many blends, Vape Wild made single-flavor juices for people who prefer a simpler profile. Spearmint was a wintry mint with only a hint of sweetness.
The Verdict Vapors Mints version aims at the same thing with a stronger flavor that carries through the day. It tastes of freshly unwrapped white and green spearmints, clean and cold, and it does the job of a mint or a stick of gum in vape form.
Desserts and custards
Surf Cake: try BSX Blueberry Cake
Creamy blueberry cheesecake made Surf Cake very popular, partly because few juices combined fruit and cheesecake back then. That also made it awkward to replace.
Our pick keeps the berry and the cake and leaves out the cheesecake. Blueberry Cake by BSX is wild blueberries baked into a fluffy pound cake, a fresh sponge filled with fruit and finished with blueberry drizzle. We consider it a fair swap, but you are the judge.
Butterbeer: try Custard Monster Butterscotch
Listed as Buttered Beer, this was the wizard-school drink in juice form: smooth butterscotch and warm vanilla. Nobody can say what the real thing tastes like, but our guess is that Vape Wild got close.
Custard Monster’s Butterscotch is built from those same two flavors, melted butterscotch and buttery vanilla, in a creamy dessert juice for anyone with a sweet tooth. We expect it to see a lot of refills.
On Cloud Custard: try Vapetasia Killer Kustard
Warm custard with a soft vanilla background made this a hit with dessert vapers, and it went when the rest of the high VG range did. At ejuice.deals we think the replacement is an easy one.
Killer Kustard is a delicate vanilla custard and a best seller in a Vapetasia range full of smooth desserts. It is simple, the flavor lasts, and dessert fans around the country rate it highly.
Cereal flavors
Vape Wild was fond of breakfast cereal: three of its juices were based on rainbow or pebble-style cereals, each tweaked a little.
Stoned Age: try Bad Drip Labs Cereal Trip
Named with a nod to a Saturday cartoon about cavemen and their pet dinosaur, Stoned Age tasted of crunchy, sweet, rainbow-colored pebble flakes. For the record, it never got anybody high.
Cereal Trip keeps the joke going. Bad Drip Labs made a sweet, creamy cereal juice: crunchy rainbow pieces and the bright pink milk they leave behind, thick and creamy.
Rainbow Crunch: try Milk King Cereal
Rainbow Crunch was the retro one, a sweet and creamy cereal meant to recall lazy cartoon mornings. It was not easy to copy.
We suggest Milk King Cereal, whose label, a cow being beamed aboard an alien ship, has always made us laugh. The juice is sweet, crunchy cereal soaked in cold, creamy milk, and our cereal vapers approve. Holy Cannoli Fruit Cereal is another option for this profile.
Double Rainbow: try Vapetasia Rainbow Road
Double Rainbow was the fruity loop cereal with cold milk poured over, the kind a certain blue toucan would recognise. A substitute was quick to find.
Rainbow Road comes from Vapetasia, a brand known for dessert juices. It gives you crunchy rainbow cereal and cold, creamy milk, much like the pink milk left when the bowl is nearly empty.
Tobacco
Menthol Type: try Kilo Mint Tobacco
Menthol Type was made for vapers who like tobacco with a menthol edge, and it was modelled on the taste of a menthol cigarette. A handful of juices cover that ground now that it has gone.
Ours comes from a well-known name. Kilo’s Mint Tobacco puts bold dried Virginia leaf together with icy menthol, so each puff is warm and cold at once.
Wrangler: try Badger Hill Reserve Classic
The cowboy-themed Wrangler was a sweeter tobacco, and its 65/35 VG/PG high VG base made plenty of vapor.
Our substitute goes for a more authentic tobacco taste. Nobody can reproduce traditional Virginia tobacco exactly, but Classic, made by Verdict Vapors under the Badger Hill Reserve name, tries hard: earthy, lightly sweet, and among the nearest to a cigarette’s flavor that we have tried.
Candy
Murica: try Candy King Worms
Murica was a patriotic take on the rocket popsicle, the sticky summer ice pop: tart cherry, tangy citrus and soft raspberry.
Candy King’s Worms recreates sweet-and-sour gummy worms, and it shares most of those notes: gummy candy, sweet cherry, sour lemon and lime, zesty orange and smooth blue raspberry. Fruit and candy fans may well rate it above Murica.
Pinkle Twinkle: try Candy King Berry Dweebz
Vape Wild gave almost no detail about what went into this strangely named juice. Our assumption is an assortment of sweets.
So we picked a candy juice with a nerdy streak. Berry Dweebz is crunchy rock candy, the small pebble-shaped pink and purple kind.