Ragnarok e-liquid: the Ultimate range in the UK

Some references circulate so widely that nobody reads the sheet any more. This one has been in European DIY catalogues since at least 2018, as a concentrate and as a large bottle, in more than one edition and at a dose retailers do not always state.

Two buyers who believe they are ordering the same Ragnarok e-liquid can end up with two different bottles. This summary rebuilds the file from the manufacturer’s own source, then adds the British layer the French coverage cannot have.

Ragnarok e-liquid: what the name actually covers

The recipe belongs to the Ultimate collection published by A&L, a French producer whose laboratories sit near Saint-Etienne, and it reaches British buyers mainly through specialist DIY retailers rather than high street vape shops.

The profile announced by the manufacturer is a red fruit assembly with blackcurrant dominant, carried on a cool finish. Retailer descriptions vary in the detail of the fruits named. Some list strawberry, blackberry, raspberry and blueberry, others simply red fruits and blackcurrant, and several add an icy finish.

The reference exists in two commercial forms. The concentrate, in a small or a larger bottle, is used to prepare your own liquid. The large ready to boost bottle is sold to be completed before use. They share a name without substituting for one another.

A further variant circulates under a modified name, described as pairing the red fruit base with cotton candy and starfruit. It is a separate recipe and should not be read as the original under another label.

Two editions that do not differ on the stated profile

The point most often missed at the checkout sits in the volume selector, and it does not concern the volume.

The concentrate is offered in a Green Edition and in a Sweet version, also called Original. The manufacturer describes the first as free of sucralose and of any sweetener derivative, and the second as the recipe as its flavourists conceived it.

In the same paragraph it states that the red fruit assembly and the freshness are identical in both versions. The difference is the sweetener load, not the aromatic composition. A sweetener fouls a coil faster, which makes this a decision about use as much as about taste.

That duality is not always passed down the chain. Some retailer listings reference only the Sweet edition explicitly, which is how a buyer ends up with an edition they did not choose.

The five per cent dose, the most concrete claim on the sheet

This is the figure the manufacturer puts forward itself, and it holds up to arithmetic.

The technical sheet gives a starting dose of five per cent in a balanced base, which the manufacturer expresses as 27 drops for 10 ml of preparation. It stresses that the proportion is well below that of most flavour concentrates on the market, which means one bottle prepares more finished liquid.

The gap is measurable. A concentrate dosed at fifteen per cent, as the Red Astaire one is, yields roughly 200 ml from a 30 ml bottle. The same volume of Ragnarok e-liquid concentrate yields around three times more, so the cost per finished millilitre is not comparable at all.

Steeping is described three ways on the same page, and it helps to know that before concluding you made an error. The technical sheet gives a maturation of two to three days, the body text recommends at least 48 hours, and the same passage notes the range can generally be vaped straight after preparation. Those are a theoretical minimum, an advised optimum and a practical tolerance.

Hazard labelling, the part retailers rarely reproduce

The hazard statements on the manufacturer’s sheet are the most verifiable information in the file, and almost no retailer listing carries them across.

The concentrate carries pictograms for flammable liquid and vapour and for possible skin allergy, and the declared substance list includes beta damascenone, methyl cinnamate, furaneol and limonene. Those four names are not an industrial secret. They appear because labelling rules require certain sensitising compounds to be declared above a threshold.

That regime exists in Britain in its own right rather than by borrowing the French one. The Defra guidance on the single use vapes ban names the Classification, Labelling and Packaging of Chemicals Regulations 2015 among the rules a vaping product placed on this market must also follow.

The manufacturer adds that the recipe contains no diacetyl and has not been animal tested, and that the declared composition is limited to flavourings and propylene glycol. Those statements are declarative, with no public report behind them, which is the norm for claims of this type across the sector.

The British change that reaches home mixing

This is the section with no French equivalent at all, and it is the reason a DIY file written for France should not simply be translated.

HMRC’s published briefing on Vaping Products Duty states that all substances intended for vaping are covered, including those made at home from ingredients such as propylene glycol, vegetable glycerine and flavourings, and that products are liable whether or not the liquid contains nicotine.

It goes further on premises. From 1 October 2026 it will be against the law to manufacture vaping products in places that have not been checked and approved by HMRC, and the briefing states in terms that this includes the mixing of non duty paid liquids to produce a liquid to be used in a vape, even where it is not produced for commercial sale.

The same passage draws the line that matters to a British home mixer. It does not include the mixing of multiple duty paid liquids, giving the example of a duty paid shortfill combined with a duty paid nicotine shot.

The surrounding dates are fixed. Approval applications opened on 1 April 2026, duty and stamps on retail packaging apply from 1 October 2026, and from 1 April 2027 all vaping products outside duty suspension must carry a stamp. Anyone whose routine is built on concentrates and a base should read HMRC’s guidance directly rather than a French dosing table.

Alongside it, the MHRA rules still cap a nicotine containing refill container at 10 ml and the strength at 20 mg per ml, and require every e-cigarette and e-liquid to be notified and published before sale.

What to watch on the Ultimate range

No withdrawal or recipe change was announced at the date of this summary, and the reference remains distributed as a concentrate and as a large bottle by the retailers consulted.

The manufacturer does reserve the possibility of modifying a recipe in the event of a quality alert, a wording that invites comparing label statements from one bottle to the next over time.

The second point is British and structural. A range whose British audience is built on home preparation sits directly in the path of the duty and premises rules above, and any narrowing of the DIY offer here will show in retailer catalogues before it is announced anywhere.

FAQ

Does the Green Edition contain fewer flavourings than the Sweet?

No. According to the manufacturer only the presence of sweeteners changes, the aromatic load and the freshness being presented as identical.

Does the large ready to boost bottle also come in two editions?

The listings consulted do not mention that distinction on the ready to boost format, which is referenced without an edition.

Can this concentrate be mixed with another?

Yes, and it is a common use. The manufacturer’s shared recipe base records several pairings published by users.

What hardware suits a balanced base?

A balanced ratio accommodates a wide range of coils, including values above one ohm intended for a tighter draw.

How should a concentrate be stored?

It is sold in a PET bottle with a dropper. Like any flavouring it keeps away from light and heat.

Ragnarok e-liquid: the reference points to keep

Three elements sum up the file. Two editions that differ on the sweetener and not on the flavourings, a starting dose of five per cent that changes the cost of use entirely, and hazard labelling that says more about the recipe than any sales description.

For a British reader one more element outranks all of them. From 1 October 2026 the mixing of non duty paid liquids at unapproved premises becomes unlawful even outside commercial sale, while combining duty paid components stays outside that rule. Any plan built around a Ragnarok e-liquid concentrate should start from that distinction. The same habit of reading the producer’s sheet rather than the retailer’s runs through our file on the shared Enjoy name and our note on Red Astaire and its formats.

Editorial content for adult readers only. Vaping products usually contain nicotine, a substance that causes addiction. Not for sale to under-18s in the United Kingdom. This article is not a buying recommendation.