# Ragnarok e-liquid: the profile and formats of a recipe > Ragnarok e-liquid: the iced red fruit profile of the A&L Ultimate recipe, its formats, its 50/50 ratio and what nicotine strength does to it. Few continental recipes turn up under the same name in as many places. Ragnarok e-liquid belongs to the Ultimate range from A&L, the French house Arômes et Liquides, and it now exists in several forms that do not all resemble one another. Product pages describe a scent and rarely the liquid: what the bottle holds, and what it gives back once fitted to a given piece of hardware. That shift of attention, from the name to the liquid, is what follows. ## Ragnarok e-liquid: what the name actually covers The name does not designate a single bottle. It designates a flavour recipe, released by A&L within its Ultimate range, and then sold under several formats and several editions that share a core and differ at the edges. Two of those formats dominate. A 50 ml shortfill at 0 mg in a 60 ml bottle, and a flavour concentrate in 10 ml and 30 ml bottles intended for mixing at home. British vapers meet the second far more often than the first. Ready-made Ultimate shortfills are stocked patchily here and mainly by continental and Irish specialists, while the concentrate travels easily and is what most UK searches for the name actually land on. ## The aromatic profile, note by note The manufacturer's own description is a blend of red fruits carried on a strong cooling effect, and the listings that resell it are consistent about which fruits: strawberry, raspberry, blackberry and blueberry. The berry side is not a single jammy note. Strawberry and raspberry sit forward and sweet, while blackberry and blueberry supply the darker, slightly tart depth underneath that keeps it from reading as a confectionery flavour. The freshness is the recipe's signature and the thing people either seek out or avoid. It is a cooling agent effect rather than a mint or menthol taste, which is why the fruit stays legible through it instead of being replaced by peppermint. That combination explains the recipe's longevity. Iced red fruit is one of the most crowded categories in European vaping, and the Ultimate version made its name on the intensity of the cooling rather than on an unusual fruit choice. ## The formats Ragnarok e-liquid is sold in The 50 ml shortfill is the ready-made route. It arrives at 0 mg in a 60 ml bottle, built around a single 10 ml nicotine shot, which is the standard British shortfill arrangement. The concentrate is the DIY route and the more common one here. A&L states a dosing rate of 5 percent, which the maker translates as 27 drops per 10 ml of finished liquid, and suggests a steeping period of several days for the flavour to settle. Ready-to-vape 10 ml bottles carrying nicotine also exist on the continent at various strengths. Any such bottle sold legally in the United Kingdom would be capped at 20 mg/ml, whatever strengths appear on a foreign listing for the same name. The gap between formats is worth holding on to. A concentrate is a flavouring, not an e-liquid, and it is unusable until it has been diluted into a base. ## A 50/50 base and what it does on different hardware The Ultimate shortfills are built on a 50/50 PG/VG base, and that single figure predicts more about the experience than the flavour description does. An even split stays fluid, wicks quickly, and carries flavour compounds well, which suits the higher-resistance coils and tighter draws found on pod systems and mouth-to-lung tanks. It is also the ratio most nicotine shots are made in, so a shot does not drag the finished mix off its intended balance. On low-resistance sub-ohm hardware the same liquid behaves less kindly. A thin 50/50 liquid in a high-airflow tank wicks faster than it is consumed, and leaking or spitting is the usual result rather than a flavour problem. For the same reason, mixing the concentrate lets you choose your own ratio. The recipe is not tied to 50/50; only the ready-made shortfill is. ## What nicotine strength does to this particular profile Strength is not a neutral dial on a heavily cooled fruit recipe. Freebase nicotine contributes its own throat sensation, which stacks on top of the cooling agent already in the liquid. The result is that the same bottle read as pleasant at a low calculated strength can read as aggressive at a higher one, without the flavour itself having changed at all. On iced recipes this effect is more pronounced than on a plain dessert or tobacco profile. Nic salt shots behave differently for a chemical reason rather than a flavour one. The protonated form sits at a lower pH, which softens the throat sensation at an identical milligram figure, and on a recipe this cold that difference is easy to notice. None of that points to a strength anyone should aim for. It only explains why two people mixing the same bottle to two different calculated figures describe two different liquids, and why the arithmetic deserves to be done rather than guessed. ## The editions built around the recipe A&L has extended the recipe rather than replaced it, and the naming can be read once you know the convention. Ragnarok Zero is the same red fruit blend without the freshness, for people who want the fruit and not the cooling. A Green Edition of that concentrate is described by the maker as a version without sweeteners, which matters for coil life more than for taste. Further variants circulate under names including Sweet Edition, Legend, Primal and X, sold mainly as concentrates. They are worth treating as separate recipes sharing a family name rather than as reformulations of the original. The practical consequence for a British buyer is simple. The word Ragnarok on a listing does not settle whether the bottle is iced, sweetened, or a concentrate, and the suffix is the part that carries the information. ## What to check on a listing before buying Given the number of editions, three checks cover almost every mix-up. Whether the item is a finished shortfill or a concentrate, since only one of them is vapeable as sold. Whether the edition includes the freshness, because Zero and the original are genuinely different liquids in the mouth. And whether the seller is a British retailer, which is what ties the product to the notification and labelling rules in force here. Anything sold with nicotine in a bottle larger than 10 ml, or above 20 mg/ml, is outside those rules regardless of the name printed on it. ## Frequently asked questions ### Does Ragnarok contain nicotine salts? The shortfill contains no nicotine at all, being a 0 mg base. Whether the finished mix ends up freebase or salt depends entirely on which type of nicotine shot is added to it. ### What is the difference between Ragnarok and Ragnarok Zero? The freshness. Zero is described by the maker as the same red fruit blend without the cooling effect, and a Green Edition of it is presented as free of sweeteners. ### Does this liquid need steeping before use? The concentrate does, with A&L suggesting several days after mixing. A ready-made shortfill is already formulated and needs only a thorough shake once a shot has been added. ### What hardware suits a 50/50 base like this one? Higher-resistance coils with a tighter draw, meaning pod systems and mouth-to-lung tanks. Low-resistance sub-ohm hardware tends to leak with a base this fluid. ### How many nicotine shots does the 50 ml format take? One 10 ml shot, which is what the 60 ml bottle is sized for. Two would overflow it unless liquid were decanted first. ## What to remember about Ragnarok e-liquid Ragnarok e-liquid is a French red fruit recipe defined by its cooling agent, sold in Britain mostly as a concentrate and occasionally as a 50 ml shortfill on a 50/50 base. The suffix on the listing tells you more than the name does, since Zero, Green and Sweet describe genuinely different liquids. Match the base to your hardware, do the nicotine arithmetic rather than guessing it, and treat any oversized nicotine-containing bottle as a reason to shop elsewhere. For the mixing side, our [nic salt shot](/uk/nic-salt-shot/) piece covers what goes into the small bottle, [pg vg](/uk/pg-vg-explained/) explains the 50/50 figure, and the [nic salt shot chart](/uk/nic-salt-shot-chart/) gives the resulting strengths volume by volume. Independent editorial content for adults only. Vaping products contain nicotine, which is a highly addictive substance. Not for sale to under-18s in the United Kingdom. This article is not a buying recommendation.