EST. 2012 — THE STORY
WE TOOK THE LONG WAY.
Vaping Monkey ran from 2012 to 2018. VM Botanix opened in 2026. The years in between weren’t downtime — they’re the reason this company looks nothing like the last one.
CHAPTER 01
2012
THE FIRST NAME
Vaping Monkey started in Southern California in 2009. Then launched it’s own e-liquid brand. It found its people quickly. And from there it’s own branch of stores opened as well across Southern California and Connecticut.
That era taught us the part that still matters: you can’t fake consistency. People notice the batch that isn’t like the last one long before they notice the branding.
CHAPTER 02
2018
THE DECISION TO STOP
By 2018, regulations and uncertainty loomed over the industry. So we decided to close the brand. Carrying on would have meant coasting on a name that had stopped moving forward.
So we closed it. Not a collapse and not a rebrand — a deliberate stop, taken while the name still meant something to the people who knew it.
CHAPTER 03
2026
THE SECOND NAME
VM Botanix opens in 2026 as a different kind of company — whole different industry, built from the ground up, broader in scope, and tighter in standards.
The two letters are the only thing carried over intact. Sourcing, testing, design and the way we talk about what’s in a product were all rebuilt from nothing.
THE HANDOVER
WHAT SURVIVED THE GAP
CARRIED OVER
The two letters.
North Carolina.
The people behind the brand.
The instinct for what the category keeps getting wrong.
LEFT BEHIND
The old catalogue.
The old supply chain in Southern California.
The old standards. These are new, and higher.
Any interest in shipping something we can’t explain.
CHAPTER THREE STARTS NOW.
The first collection is where this starts. What comes after it is already in development.