Big Bold Creamy 100ml Shortfill

Dessert flavours behave differently from fruit in a high-VG juice. The creamy, custard and baked notes are heavier and rounder, and they sit well on the thick vapour that a 70/30 blend produces. Rather than the bright, immediate hit of a fruit, a dessert builds: a smooth sweetness on the inhale and a fuller, richer note on the exhale. That is why dessert vapers tend to favour sub-ohm gear, which delivers enough vapour to carry the flavour properly.

These flavours also tend to be all-day vapes for the people who like them. A good custard or milkshake does not tire the palate the way a very sharp or very cold flavour can, so it suits long sessions. The trade-off is that heavy, sweet dessert liquids can gunk up a coil a little faster than a clean fruit, leaving residue on the coil over time, so coils may need changing slightly more often.

If you are coming to dessert juice from fruit, expect a softer, sweeter experience with less of a throat bite. The richness is the point. The Big Bold Creamy range keeps its dessert notes forward in line with the brand name, so they read as full and indulgent rather than subtle.

A short fill is a 0mg bottle sold under-filled, with room for you to add nicotine via nic shots. UK and EU rules cap nicotine-containing bottles at 10ml, so larger bottles must be nicotine-free. The short fill works around this: you buy a big 0mg bottle and small high-strength shots, then mix them. Big Bold Creamy holds 100ml in a 120ml bottle, sized for two 10ml nic shots.

Nic shots are usually 10ml at 18mg or 20mg in a 50/50 base. Add one 18mg shot to the 100ml and you get 110ml at roughly 1.5mg; add two and you have 120ml at roughly 3mg. Most sub-ohm vapers run 3mg because high-power DTL gear delivers plenty of nicotine per puff, so two shots making 3mg is the usual choice for this kind of liquid.

Dessert liquids reward steeping more than most. Steeping is simply letting the mixed liquid sit so the flavours integrate and mature; for a custard or cream blend, a few days of steeping noticeably deepens the baked, creamy notes and rounds off any sharp edges. It is vapeable straight after mixing, but if you can wait, a dessert juice is usually better for it. The how-to below covers the practical steps.

As a high-VG 70/30 liquid, Big Bold Creamy needs sub-ohm gear. The thick juice wants a low-resistance mesh coil with good wicking and airflow, the kind in a sub-ohm tank or a direct-to-lung pod-mod, usually below 0.5 ohm. In that setup it produces the dense, sweet clouds that carry the dessert flavour.

It is not the right liquid for a small mouth-to-lung pod kit. A tight 1.0 ohm-plus coil cannot wick a 70/30 dessert liquid fast enough and will give muted flavour or dry hits, and the sweet, heavy notes will struggle to come through at low power. For an MTL pod, a 50/50 e-liquid is the better choice.

For the best results, run it in a sub-ohm tank on a box mod or a powerful DTL pod-mod. Our sub-ohm tanks and replacement coils sections cover suitable hardware. Because dessert liquids are sweeter and heavier, keep an eye on the coil, sweet juices coat coils faster, so you may swap them a little more often than with a clean fruit.

The Creamy range is four dessert blends, each 0mg before nicotine, and each leaning rich and sweet. Here is what to expect from each so you can pick by taste.

Vanilla Custard is the classic of the range: a smooth, thick vanilla custard with a baked, eggy depth, the benchmark dessert flavour and the one that steeps best. Banana Milk is exactly what it sounds like, ripe banana blended into creamy milk for a milkshake-style vape that is soft and easy all day. Strawberry Banana pairs sweet strawberry with that same banana cream for a fruit-and-dessert hybrid, lighter than a straight custard but still smooth.

Strawberry Jam With Clotted Cream is the most layered: sweet strawberry jam against rich, thick clotted cream, a blend that captures a cream-tea, scone-style dessert. It is the pick for anyone who wants something more complex than a single cream note. All four keep their dessert character forward, so they read as full and indulgent rather than subtle.

Dessert short fills bring their own small quirks, and most trace back to one of two things: a juice that has not steeped yet, or the richness coating a coil. None of these are faults with the liquid, just the trade-offs of vaping a sweet, heavy 70/30 dessert on sub-ohm gear. The quick fixes below cover the ones that come up most.

Big Bold Creamy is the range to reach for when you want a smooth, sweet, all-day dessert rather than a sharp fruit hit. The four blends cover the classics, custard, banana milk, strawberry banana and a cream-tea jam and clotted cream, and the high-VG mix carries those creamy notes well on a sub-ohm setup. Bought as a 100ml short fill, it works out cheaper per millilitre than small bottles.

The honest catches are the ones that come with any dessert juice: it tastes best after a few days steeping, the sweetness coats coils a little faster, and it is wasted in a small MTL pod. If you live on fresh fruit or vape a discreet pocket device, look elsewhere. For dessert fans on sub-ohm gear, weigh the pros and cons below.