Pink Dragon e liquid | Xbud's red fruit and aniseed

Pink Dragon e liquid is one of those names that turns up in French vape shops without telling you much. The name suggests a dragon rather than a flavour, and most product pages list four ingredients on one line, in no particular order. Yet aniseed splits opinion, and eucalyptus even more so. Before opening a bottle, it helps to know where those two notes are meant to sit, and what separates this recipe from a far better-known blend in the same register.

What Pink Dragon e liquid tastes like, in short

Pink Dragon e liquid belongs to the Xbud collection, created and made in France by Liquideo. The maker’s own description lists red berries, grape and a touch of aniseed, on a 65/35 PG/VG base. The technical sheet on the same page adds eucalyptus, which two retailers repeat.

Laid over our tasting grid, the recipe reads like this. Fruit opens the puff, aniseed takes over in the middle, and the green coolness of eucalyptus should hold the finish. This is an expected reading built from the product pages, and only the bottle itself can confirm it.

Tasting stage	Expected note	Where the information comes from
Attack	Red berries, then black grape	Official description and retailers
Mid-palate	Aniseed, described as subtle	Official description
Finish	Eucalyptus, a green coolness	Technical sheet and retailers
Length	Carried by the coolness, to be checked	No source states it

Three sources that describe a slightly different Pink Dragon e liquid

Reading Pink Dragon e liquid properly means cross-checking several pages, because none of them tells the whole story. The maker, its own technical sheet and the retailers offer three slightly different versions of the same bottle, and the gap falls exactly on the note that divides palates.

Liquideo’s official description

On the 10 ml page, Liquideo talks about bright red berries, sun-ripened grape and a subtle hint of aniseed. The 50 ml page repeats the same trio, with a grape it calls juicy. In both texts, aniseed is presented as an accent rather than the point of the recipe.

Neither description mentions menthol or a cooling agent. That is worth remembering when you come to judge the finish.

The technical sheet and the eucalyptus

Below the description, the maker’s characteristics section nonetheless lists eucalyptus as a flavour, next to a mix of forest fruits and grape. The ingredient is missing from the marketing text but present in the product data, which is enough to count it among the expected notes. The 50 ml page even adds a “Tobacco” entry among its flavours, which nothing else confirms.

That gap matters at the tasting stage. A palate expecting a simple aniseed red berry blend may be surprised by a green coolness at the end of the puff, even though it belongs to the declared recipe.

What the retailers add

Two French retailers specify that the grape is black and list all four ingredients together, one of them filing the recipe under fresh fruits. On one retailer’s page, customer reviews describe a fruit blend that is not very sweet, balanced by eucalyptus, with a cool feel. These are customer impressions rather than maker data, but they point the same way as the technical sheet.

Our tasting grid, stage by stage

Our grid splits each puff into three stages, then adds a length slider and a slider for faithfulness to the description. Applied here, it shows where to look for each ingredient and which gap to note down.

The attack, red berries giving way to grape

Red berries open the recipe in every description. No page names the berries involved, so there is no point hunting for a specific strawberry or raspberry. The expected attack is a mixed berry note, quickly joined by black grape, darker and rounder.

If the grape dominates from the very first second, the bottle drifts from its stated order. The gap then goes on the faithfulness slider.

The mid-palate, aniseed as an accent

Aniseed fills the middle of the puff. The maker calls it subtle, which sets the expected level, an accent that colours the fruit without covering it. Aniseed that smothers the berries would make this a different recipe from the one described.

This is also where the base weighs most. Rich in propylene glycol, it gives a throat hit the maker itself calls pronounced, and which can sharpen the perception of the aniseed. The 50 ml page even describes the aniseed as a sharp coolness.

The finish, the coolness of eucalyptus

Eucalyptus should close the puff. Its coolness is green and herbal rather than minty, and it is what the grid scores on the length slider. A finish that falls back on fruit with no coolness at all points to a bottle that does not match the technical sheet.

Pink Dragon e liquid against Red Astaire

Reading the Pink Dragon pages quickly brings T Juice’s flagship to mind. On its website, the British house describes Red Astaire as ripe red berries, black grape and sweet eucalyptus, followed by a warm kick of aniseed, before a cool menthol finish. All four ingredients of the Xbud recipe are there.

The difference comes down to two details. Red Astaire announces menthol in the finish, while Pink Dragon announces none. And T Juice describes its recipe as a sequence, whereas Liquideo simply gives a list, which leaves more room for interpretation.

On the grid, the comparison is therefore settled in the finish. A purely green coolness keeps the bottle close to its own page, a minty one would pull it towards Red Astaire. For the rest of that family, we have covered T Juice beyond Red Astaire, recipe by recipe.

The kit that respects the recipe

A 65/35 ratio points towards particular hardware. The maker aims the 10 ml at mouth-to-lung tanks and advises against sub-ohm atomisers, which call for thicker, glycerine-rich liquids. For the 50 ml, it allows use on a sub-ohm atomiser, as long as the wattage is not pushed too high, to avoid an overly strong hit.

That advice also protects the tasting. Too much power heats the aniseed, hardens the throat hit and blurs the order of the stages. A clean coil also helps tell the stages apart, as a gunked wick generally blurs the finest notes. In the UK, refillable tanks are capped at 2 ml, which suits the small mouth-to-lung tanks this ratio is made for.

The register recalls another French range in our notebook, Fighter Fuel and its eight recipes scored stage by stage, where coolness also holds the finish, though in a different form.

FAQ

Five questions come up around this recipe, beyond the tasting itself.

Who makes Pink Dragon?

The recipe belongs to Liquideo’s Xbud collection. Liquideo is a French brand that says all its e-liquids are made in France, and it describes them as propylene glycol, vegetable glycerine and food-grade flavourings.

Which nicotine strengths does the 10 ml come in?

The maker’s French page lists the 10 ml in 0, 3, 6, 10 and 15 mg/ml. In the UK, nicotine e-liquid is limited to 20 mg/ml and sold in bottles of no more than 10 ml, so all of those strengths sit within the British cap.

How do you add nicotine to the 50 ml shortfill?

The 50 ml is sold nicotine-free, and the maker expects a nicotine shot to be added to the bottle. A 10 ml shot at 18 mg/ml added to 50 ml gives 60 ml at 3 mg/ml. Two retailers state a bottle of around 70 ml, which leaves room for it.

Does Pink Dragon contain menthol?

None of the maker’s pages mentions menthol. The coolness comes from eucalyptus, listed in the official characteristics, and from the aniseed, which the 50 ml page describes as a sharp coolness.

Does the name refer to dragon fruit?

No. None of the pages consulted lists pitaya among the ingredients. The name belongs to the visual identity of the Xbud collection and says nothing about what is in the bottle.

Pink Dragon e liquid, a characterful flavour judged on its finish

Four ingredients, three sources and one real question, the coolness. Red berries and grape open as expected, the aniseed aims to stay discreet, and it is the eucalyptus, missing from the official text but present in the technical sheet, that turns the recipe into a characterful flavour rather than a plain fruit blend.

To judge a bottle of Pink Dragon e liquid, the method is the one used throughout our notebook. Read the page, sort the notes into attack, mid-palate and finish, then check whether the green coolness holds its place. The same reading works for every aniseed fruit blend, a family best tasted one stage at a time.

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