First thougts:
As with all Hydro products, I was excited to try this. It’s herbal, and it’s Hydro, so I figured it would get bad soon, like every experience in the past.

Apparatus:
Bowl: Blue Phunnel bowl
Hose: Green Cobra Hose
Hookah: Mini Mya Saray
Coals: Cheap Japanese Naturals
Filler: Ice water
Cut: Red dye, bunch of sticks, and evenly flavored.

Experience:
Myself: The flavor is orange. It’s like a real orange, without the acid. The orange flavor isn’t too sweet or too sour. It’s basically the perfect mix of orangy-ness. It doesn’t taste like you’re diving right into a cup of fresh orange juice but I can definitely enjoy this flavor. Although, after about 20-25 minutes of smoking this, I got the chemical flavor that Hydro tends to put off.
Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥ [5/10]

Smoke:

The smoke is mediocre. It could be better, but it could be worse. My cheap coals could contribute to the mediocrity of it, but very marginally. With that being said, I’ll also give this one a five out of ten hearts.
Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥ [5/ 10]

Overall:
Unless your shisha has to be herbal, I wouldn’t buy this for your first time smoking an orange flavored shisha. There are plenty other brands out there that make amazing orange flavored shisha that I could recommend first. However, if you’re stuck on only smoking herbal shisha, this is a good item for you. Or if it’s the only thing in your price budget, try it. It’s not going to hurt you, and you may even enjoy it more than I did.

Do you want the dictionary definition or what I think it is?
In my eyes, shisha is tobacco that is flavored for use with a hookah pipe. Shisha does have very little nicotine, but none of the additives or tar that most other tobaccos have. Shisha can contain sugars, natural flavors, artificial flavors, glycerin, molasses, salts, alcohol, and spices. Some of these things have been known to hurt people, or alter their moods. Also, a lot of hookah bars require you to drink something so you won’t pass out. There is logic behind this, but I’m not saying you can’t smoke without drinking or eating. Some people just need to be more careful than others.

If you open a bag or can of shisha, and it’s dripping, it’s probably too wet.
Some example shisha’s: Al Fakher, starbuzz, and fantaisia.
If a tobacco is too wet, it more than likely isn’t going to smoke as well as it should. An easy way to fix this, is to put the amount of shisha you’re going to need to fill the bowl onto a sheet of paper towel. Compress it, but not too much; You don’t want it to lose all of the juice. There you go. If it’s still too juicy, try it again. Some of the results of too juicy shisha include but are not limited to: Harsh burning smoke, no smoke, very little smoke, and stomach aches.

Apparatus:
Shisha: Hydro Avalanche [Banana]
Hookah: Mini Mya.
Bowl: Phunnel bowl
Hose: Cobra hose
Coals: Two coco-naras
First thoughts:
Myself: My first inhale of it tasted perfect. After the first few puffs, the perfection went away sadly. It seems as though all of the hydro’s have a flavor after a few moments or so. It’s not bothersome at the least.
Jaime: “good stuff!” Jaime claims. “It tastes like all of the other good banana [shisha’s] out there.”
All in All:
This shisha is mediocre as far as just shisha in general. But when you compare it to other herbal shisha’s I’d consider it the premium brand. This banana flavoring is quite superb within it’s beginning time frame. It lasted about a total of 30 minutes with the last 15 minutes of it being not as enjoyable as the first. The flavor itself tasted pretty much like banana juice, if you’ve ever had it. Like I explained in my “First Thoughts:” After a while, there’s a flavor that will throw you off guard. It tastes nothing like banana, it’s more like.. Medicine. A mix between medicine and chemicals. It’s not that bad, and a lot of people don’t notice it, but I’m one for details.

First thougts:
Well, It’s Hydro. If you’re one of my readers, you know what I’m going to say from here. It smells extremely sweet and fruity. Somehow, that never changes.

Apparatus:
Bowl: Blue Phunnel bowl
Hose: Black Nammor hose
Hookah: Mini Mya
Coals: Coconaras
Filler: Ice water
Cut: Red dye, bunch of sticks, and evenly juiced.

Experience:
Myself: At first, it tasted like a light grape. Not too sweet, not too fruity. A pretty even combination. Usually, I absolutely adore Hydro’s flavors, but tonight isn’t the usual. After about twenty minutes, the taste changed. It went from being perfect to tasting like a chemical warfare in my mouth. It doesn’t burn at all, but I’m pretty sure it’s from being overheated.
Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥ [5/10]

The fanclub: [Jaime]: I loved it at first, it tasted like grape kool-aid with just the right sweetness. But once it got harsh, it was absolutely horrible. The main problem was, is that we treated it like we have the rest of the hydro, so there shouldn’t have been any heating issues.
Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥ [5/10]

Smoke:
The smoke was the best it’s ever been, even after it got harsh. It was undoubtedly the best smoke we’ve had with the Hydro brand shishas.
Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥♥ [6 / 10]

Overall:
While I’ve had this bad experience, I’m not going to give up on Hydro. I have five more flavors to review, and will be doing them shortly. Every flavor that I’ve tried besides this one has been great. I will probably smoke this again, and try a new heating technique.

FYI:
If you miss my video reviews, they’ll be on here randomly. I’ve been sick and it’s hard to do a review and look decent when you’re this sick. Either way, they’ll be here, just not on every post.

I really hate to sound repetitious when I say this, but I honestly believe that Hydro is by far the best herbal shisha out there. A few of the perks I love about Hydro are:

[1] Hydro is 100% Nicotine, tar, and tobacco free.
[2] The handy ziplock bags that the herbal shisha comes in, that’s inside of a really nice looking box.
[3] The smell of the shisha, and the flavor. They’re both completely tantalizing, making you practically drool on yourself until your next hit on the hookah.

The cons:
[1] The shisha doesn’t seem to last as long as tobacco shisha.
[2] They only come in 50g boxes.

The flavor that I’m reviewing today is Hydro – Blue Viper [ Blueberry ]

First thougts:
Of course, you know what i’m going to say by now. The smell of the shisha even before even opening the box could be considered tormenting. It’s like smelling your favorite desert, fresh out of the oven or freezer, and then finding out it was only an air freshener.

Apparatus:
Bowl: Blue Phunnel bowl
Hose: Black Nammor hose
Hookah: KM [we think?]
Coals: Some Japanese natural coals
Filler: Ice water

Cut: Red dye, bunch of sticks, and evenly flavored.

Experience:

Myself: The flavor to me tasted like blueberry muffins.. But more blueberry to me. Or even more like blueberry cream.. I think what I’m getting at, is that it wasn’t exactly dead on blueberry. It didn’t seem to hit the spot, as I was hoping it would. [fantasia!!] Regardless, I wasn’t let down. It is still a great flavor to me.

The fanclub: Both Jaime and my mom believed there to be a licorice-y aftertaste. They’re not talking about the way the smoke tastes when you blow it out, but after that when you take that first swallow. Overall, they both really enjoyed the flavor and agreed that they would smoke it again.
Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ [7/10]

Smoke:
The smoke started out really thick. About 5 minutes later, one of the coals broke in half and I guess somehow it burnt the shisha. That resulted in us pulling off one of the coals, and losing a lot of smoke.
Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥♥.5 [6.5 / 10]