JNR Gorilla X – Cherry and Blue Raspberry

JNR Gorilla X Cherry Blue Raspberry: the product in short

The box holds the device, a 15 ml pod already fitted and primed with 2 ml of e-liquid, and two 10 ml JNR bottles in the same flavour. You can draw on it straight away, with no assembly and no waiting.

Priming means the cotton has already taken on liquid at the factory. That is what avoids the first empty draw, the one that leaves a burnt taste and eats into coil life from the very start.

What separates this range from ordinary rechargeable puffs comes down to one thing: the coil is in the cartridge, not in the body. The rest of this page spells out what that means in practice, because it is the only argument that genuinely changes daily use.

What is in the blend

Cherry leads the draw. It is sweet and round, reading closer to candied cherry than to fruit picked off a tree. It occupies the opening and gives the blend its overall volume.

Blue raspberry arrives behind, with its characteristic acidity and that profile everyone recognises without ever having met the matching fruit. There is no blue raspberry in nature: it is a confectionery aroma born in the United States, invented to tell raspberry sweets apart from strawberry ones by sight. The vocabulary stuck, and so did the taste.

The result therefore fully owns its candy side. That is not a flaw, it is an intention: the outcome suggests coloured slushes and fairground sodas far more than a fruit bowl. If you want a realistic fruit, look elsewhere in the range. If you want immediate pleasure, this is exactly it.

A coil you replace, a battery you keep

Rechargeable puffs usually build the coil into the device. When it wears out you throw the lot away, battery included, even though it still works perfectly. The approach has no technical justification, only a commercial one.

Here, ordering a replacement pod at 7.90 euros is enough to start fresh. The reference is unique and covers all twenty one flavours in the range, which leaves the door open to a change of taste at every renewal.

43,000 puffs: what the figure covers

The 43,000 puffs represent the total potential of the device across its whole life, refills and pod changes included. It is not the capacity of a tank, and setting the frame beats leaving an ambiguity hanging.

In fact, the 2 ml already in place and the 20 ml supplied in bottles last several weeks under heavy use, several months if you vape lightly. The pod is then replaced and the battery carries on without interruption.

Charging, filling and upkeep

Charging runs over USB-C, cable not supplied. The high resolution screen shows battery percentage continuously, a clear improvement on the small coloured LEDs that never tell you anything precise.

Filling goes through the top of the pod: open, pour, close. Give the cotton a minute to soak before drawing. Non negotiable point: never vape on an empty tank, dry firing destroys the cotton permanently.

Keep the device upright at rest to avoid liquid creeping into the airflow channel. Store the bottles away from light and heat, both of which degrade the aroma long before causing any visible problem.

Two meshes rather than one

The Dual Mesh Coil relies on two heating meshes instead of one: wider surface, more even heating, denser vapour. On a two part blend like this one, that regularity stops cherry from crushing blue raspberry, or the reverse, depending on how hard you draw.

Nicotine salts: one strength only

The device comes at 20 mg per millilitre in nicotine salts, with no other option. Salts give a softer throat passage than freebase nicotine at equivalent strength, which makes them standard on this kind of device.

That strength targets people already used to nicotine. It holds no interest for someone who neither smokes nor vapes. Adults only, not advised for pregnant or breastfeeding women.

Where this flavour sits in the range

The Cherry Raspberry Blueberry stays in the same universe while adding a third, deeper note. The Iced Cherry keeps cherry alone and adds cold to it.

For a sharper, less candied cherry, the Cherry Blueberry Cranberry takes the opposite line. And if blue raspberry is what interests you most, the Blueberry Blue Raspberry puts it forward without cherry. The rest of the catalogue sits in the rechargeable puffs category.

Questions that keep coming up

Is this flavour mentholated?

No, no coolness is added. The blend stays entirely on fruit and sugar. If you want the same spirit with cold in it, the iced references in the range are the place to look, and there are plenty of them.

Is it too sweet for continuous use?

That depends on your habits. Confectionery profiles are enjoyable but can saturate the palate if it is the only thing you vape all week. Many vapers keep it in rotation alongside a more neutral or cooler flavour.

Should the pod be rinsed between two flavours?

No, and it is actually best avoided: water stays trapped in the cotton and ruins the first draws. To switch cleanly, the simplest route is to dedicate one pod per flavour and swap them as the mood dictates.

Technical specifications

1000 mAh battery, USB-C charging, cable not supplied. High resolution screen. Dual Mesh coil housed in the replaceable pod. 15 ml pod delivered primed with 2 ml. Two 10 ml JNR bottles at 20 mg nicotine salts included. Up to 43,000 puffs. Replacement pod at 7.90 euros, single reference for every flavour. 23.90 euros. Shipped from France.