Bankiz e-liquid | e.tasty's iced fruit range mapped

Short names that sound like blocks of ice, one product page per flavour, and hardly ever an overview. Most people meet Bankiz from e.tasty one bottle at a time, and most of what is written about it online is in French.

The recipes follow a shared logic, though, fruit by fruit and level of cooling by level of cooling. This guide lays the range out as a flavour map, with the numbers you need to choose a recipe and set your nicotine.

What Bankiz is, in short

Bankiz is a range of iced fruit e-liquids from the French maker e.tasty. Each recipe pairs one or two fruits with a cooling sensation, and every recipe comes in two intensities, a standard fresh version and an extra fresh one.

All of them share the same base, 50 per cent propylene glycol and 50 per cent vegetable glycerine. The range is sold as 10 ml ready to vape bottles, with or without nicotine, and as a 50 ml nicotine free shortfill supplied in a 70 ml bottle, which leaves room for two nic shots.

The maker also lists its 50 ml bottles with multilingual labels rather than a single language.

The Bankiz flavour map, from blackcurrant to tropical

From the e.tasty trade catalogue, we have kept six recipes and grouped them into four poles according to the leading fruit. Reading the range this way stops you choosing on the name, which tells you nothing about the taste.

Blackcurrant and menthol, Kalio

Kalio is the most direct recipe in the range. The maker sums it up as menthol blackcurrant, and retailers describe a blackcurrant paired with an icy menthol.

It is the only recipe whose official description mentions menthol by name. The others speak of cold, frost or iced fruit without naming the plant.

The berry pair, Bako and Bisto

Two recipes share the red fruit territory. Bako combines iced red berries with a violet note and something the maker calls blue mist, presented as a smoother touch. The floral violet takes it away from a plain berry blend.

Bisto builds on blue raspberry and red berries, with a gentle sharpness. A tester on the Oneshot Media panel praised its balance between the blue raspberry and the red berry base, with restrained sweetness.

The sharp one, Siko

Siko is about acidity. Finger lime, also sold as caviar lime, is a small citrus whose pulp comes as tiny pearls, and in the maker’s own imagery it frees forest fruits from a block of frost.

It is the recipe to look at if berries on their own feel too round, since the citrus supplies the tension iced red fruit can lack.

The tropical pair, Serko and Peiko

Serko pairs snake fruit, the common name for salak, a scaly skinned fruit from South East Asia, with iced blackberries. On the same panel, another tester picked up something between banana and lychee, without finding the blackberry.

Peiko combines yellow peach and iced mango. The maker describes the softness of the peach arriving first, then the mango, before the cooling closes the whole thing down.

Fresh or extra fresh, choosing your Bankiz cooling level

Every one of these recipes is offered in both versions, in 10 ml and in 50 ml alike. The flavour recipe stays the same and only the intensity of the cooling changes.

The standard version keeps the fruit in front. Extra fresh pushes the throat sensation much further and can cover some of the detail, which matters more on a floral recipe such as Bako than on a menthol blackcurrant.

One tester found that the extra fresh Serko worked very well in a pod, while another docked half a point from the extra fresh Bisto for a cooling they called genuinely brutal.

If you are unsure, start with the standard version, because cooling cannot be taken back out of a bottle. Our guide to menthol e-liquid explains how cooling agents differ from mint flavour and why tolerance to cold varies so much between vapers.

Adding nicotine to a Bankiz shortfill

The 50 ml bottle contains no nicotine. You add it with nic shots, which in the UK are sold in 10 ml bottles at no more than 20 mg/ml, the two limits that apply to nicotine containing refills here. Shots at 18 mg/ml are common on British shelves as well, so the table covers both.

The maths fits on one line. The final strength equals the volume of shot multiplied by its strength, divided by the total volume of liquid.

Nic shots added	Total volume	With 18 mg/ml shots	With 20 mg/ml shots
One 10 ml shot	60 ml	3 mg/ml (10 x 18 / 60)	3.3 mg/ml (10 x 20 / 60)
Two 10 ml shots	70 ml	5.1 mg/ml (20 x 18 / 70)	5.7 mg/ml (20 x 20 / 70)

The 70 ml bottle stops there. Beyond two shots you need another container, and every extra shot dilutes the flavour a little more.

If the strength you want is beyond what two shots allow, the ready to vape 10 ml bottle with nicotine saves the arithmetic. For the wider method, from choosing a base to steeping, our DIY e-liquid guide walks through each step.

Which kit suits a Bankiz e-liquid

A 50/50 ratio is about as versatile as e-liquid gets. Thin enough to soak the cotton quickly, it suits pod kits and tanks designed for mouth to lung or restricted direct lung vaping.

On a tank built for big clouds and high glycerine liquids, a 50/50 can be too thin and flood the coil. That is not where this range belongs. Refillable tanks sold in Britain are capped at 2 ml in any case, and a pod kit is the most natural home for a Bankiz bottle.

Where Bankiz sits among fruit e-liquids

Within the wider family of fruit e-liquid, Bankiz belongs to the iced branch. What makes it different is less the fruit than the control over cooling, offered recipe by recipe.

For a palate new to iced fruit, the standard Bisto is an easy way in. Siko and Kalio suit people who like acidity or blackcurrant, Serko and Peiko pull the range towards the tropics, and Bako, with its violet, remains the odd one out.

Who it is for, and what it is not

The range is plainly aimed at fans of iced fruit who want control over the cooling, and the choice between two versions of one recipe is its real selling point.

It is not a range of natural fruit, since even the standard version brings a cooling sensation, and it is not a dessert profile either.

FAQ

Five questions that come up about the range and that the map above does not cover.

Does Bankiz come in nic salts?

Partly. The maker’s catalogue lists Kalio and Siko in 10 ml nic salt bottles, a form of nicotine that feels smoother on the throat than freebase at the same strength.

Is there a Bankiz concentrate for mixing?

Yes. Siko is sold as a 30 ml concentrate, which the maker recommends using at 10 per cent in a 50/50 base, so 10 ml of concentrate per 100 ml of finished liquid.

Where is Bankiz made?

In France. The maker e.tasty comes from the Loiret, and its liquids are produced near Orléans.

Can you blend the fresh and extra fresh versions?

Technically there is nothing against it, since both versions share the same base and the same flavour recipe. Mixed half and half, they give an intermediate level of cooling that you can adjust to your own tolerance.

What does the name Bankiz mean?

It plays on banquise, the French word for pack ice, and the maker carries the image through its range description, from an icy northern wind to fruit caught in frost. The recipe names, short and all ending in o, follow the same logic.

Choosing a Bankiz, what to keep in mind

The range reads better as a map than as a list. It is organised around four flavour poles (menthol blackcurrant, berries, sharp citrus and tropical fruit), with two cooling levels for each.

The sensible order of choice is simple. Pick the fruit first, try the standard version to judge the recipe, and move to extra fresh only if the cooling feels too timid. On nicotine, two shots at most in the original bottle, which gives 3 to 3.3 mg/ml with one shot and 5.1 to 5.7 mg/ml with two, depending on the shot strength.

Beyond Bankiz, reading a range by flavour pole and by cooling intensity works for most iced fruit lines, and it is the grid we apply to every flavour profile on Myst Vapor.

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