Fumi - Blackcurrant | 10 Cans

Fumi Blackcurrant: The Deep End of the Berry Pool

Berry pouches usually paddle in the shallows: strawberry, raspberry, something pink and agreeable. Fumi Blackcurrant heads for the deep end instead, a dark, tart, properly British-tasting berry in a slim, all-white, tobacco-free nicotine pouch from Sweden. It comes in 4mg Regular or 8mg Strong, 20 pouches to a can, and at NicotineBuzz the pack is 10 cans for £34.99, £3.50 a can (from £2.75 a can with multi-buy deals) against the £4.49 most retailers want for one.

Blackcurrant occupies a strange place in flavour culture. To most of the world it barely registers; to anyone raised in the UK it is the taste of childhood cordial, purple ice lollies and the good end of the sweet tin. Pouch makers have mostly ignored it, preferring the easier international berries, which leaves this can with a small, devoted audience and very little competition. Their loss.

Tastes Like the Good Cordial: The Profile

Dark first, sweet second, tart to finish. The opening is proper blackcurrant, the deep, earthy kind rather than the perfumed violet-adjacent impression cheaper blends settle for, and it carries a natural sweetness that never tips into syrup. Behind it sits the fruit's signature sharpness: a tangy edge that arrives late in each wave of flavour and keeps the whole thing refreshing rather than heavy.

The nostalgia comparisons write themselves, and customers make them unprompted. One reviewer on a major pouch retailer reckoned it smells and tastes like Soothers, the blackcurrant throat sweet, and honestly that is not a bad calibration: the same dark fruit, the same rounded sweetness, minus the menthol. Where you land on that comparison predicts where you land on the pouch. People who hear "blackcurrant lozenge" and feel warm inside adore this flavour; people who hear it and think of being eight years old with a cold should read the honesty section below.

Session-wise, expect the standard Fumi arc: quick flavour arrival thanks to the moist cut, a stable middle, and 20 to 45 minutes of genuine taste with the tartness outlasting the sweetness. The independent write-ups agree on the shape of it; one 2026 flavour round-up singled the 8mg out as a dark berry with a sour edge you can run all day, which matches our experience can-for-can.

A short digression on why this flavour is so rare, because the story is genuinely odd. Blackcurrant farming was banned across much of the United States for most of the twentieth century, to stop a fungus the bushes carried from wrecking the timber industry, and whole generations of Americans grew up never tasting the fruit. The flavour industry followed the market, grape took blackcurrant's seat in American sweets, and pouch brands with global ambitions still mostly skip the currant today. A Swedish maker building one for a British palate is the exception, and it shows in how specific this recipe tastes.

Regular or Strong: Matching the Depth

Two strengths, mercifully simple after some of this range's taller ladders.

The choice tracks your history, not your enthusiasm. First pouch ever, or a light smoker? The 4mg is genuinely pleasant and repeatable, and dark fruit at low strength makes an unusually good all-day flavour because the tartness keeps it interesting. Daily users of anything 8mg and up should go straight to the Strong; at 11.4 mg/g it is the same depth with the volume turned up, and Fumi's pH balancing, citric acid played against sodium carbonate with a stabiliser smoothing the release, means it gets going quickly and stays even. The Regular tin prints three dots on Fumi's own gauge, which happens to be exactly what our cross-brand scale awards it too; consensus, for once, between manufacturer and shop.

Worth adding for the grazers: dark fruit paces an entire day better than sweet berries do. Sugar-led flavours nag at you to chase the sweetness; this one finishes tart and clean, so the next pouch is a choice rather than a craving, and plenty of 4mg buyers report the can lasting longer for it.

Vital Statistics

The purple can with the mint-green wordmark is, by some distance, the easiest Fumi to find in a cluttered drawer, and what is inside will not stain your teeth: all-white pouches carry no tobacco and no dark pigment, whatever the fruit on the label suggests.

Wearing It Well

Standard drill, no surprises. One pouch under the upper lip against the gum, a light first-minutes tingle that fades, out again once the flavour stops paying rent, spent pouch into the catch-lid on top of the can. Nothing to light, charge, refill or explain to the person next to you.

Two blackcurrant-specific notes. The tart edge reads strongest in the first session of the day, so if you want the full cordial effect, make it the morning pouch rather than burying it after three mints. And because the flavour runs long, resist swapping it early; the back third of a session is where the dark, earthy side does its best work. Newcomers wanting an even softer start can warm up on the wider low strength collection first. Pairing-wise it sits happily alongside black coffee, the bitterness and the tartness taking turns, which is more than can be said for most fruit pouches at breakfast.

Blackcurrant vs the Dark Fruit Field

True blackcurrant pouches are rare, so the practical rivals are the black cherries and dark berry blends. All of these are stocked here:

The reading is straightforward. Nothing else on the table tastes specifically of blackcurrant; the XQS blend comes closest and promptly sweetens it away. If dark cherry is really what you want, the ZYN and XQS rows have it covered at friendlier strengths than the Killa. But if it is the currant itself you are after, the purple can is the only game in town, which is a comfortable position for a flavour to hold. Strength-wise the table also tells its own story: everything truly dark either stops at 8mg or jumps straight to the heavyweight division, and only the Fumi offers a genuine 4mg way in.

A Ranked Flavour in a Strange Family

Independent reviewers keep noticing this pouch. It turned up in a 2026 top-ten flavour round-up as the dark berry pick, and brand retrospectives regularly list it among Fumi's most dependable cans, praise that lands differently once you know the company it keeps: this is the range of Salty Raspberry, Salty Violet and Prickly Pear. Among Fumi's wilder experiments, Blackcurrant is the sensible sibling who still turns out to be interesting at dinner. The 2026 catalogue kept it in the core line-up at both strengths, which for a flavour this regional counts as a quiet vote of confidence from the brand.

Within the fruit shelf, it anchors the dark end. Chilled Cherry is richer and cooler, Tangy Strawberry brighter and sharper, Watermelon Mint the summery opposite pole. Helix Sweden AB has made the lot in Ödeshög since 2021 under Kaj and Dennis, the Snus Brothers, whose house style, unusual ideas executed with proper Swedish pouch craft, shows even in a flavour this traditional. The full range lives on our Fumi collection page, the berry crowd in the fruit flavour collection, and the brand's own catalogue at fumipods.com.

Give It a Miss If

Sweetness is your priority: this is the least sugary berry on the shelf, and the tart finish will read as sour if you wanted pudding. The lozenge association bothers you: fair warning, the Soothers comparison is apt, and if blackcurrant means medicine to you rather than cordial, choose Tangy Strawberry and be happy. You want strengths beyond 8mg: the dark cherry heavyweights in the table above go further, and Fumi's own ladder tops out elsewhere, via Freezy Mint at 15mg. One redirection for the borderline cases: if what actually appeals here is the tartness rather than the dark fruit, Tangy Apple is built entirely around that sharpness and wears it more openly. Know which itch you are scratching before the can is opened, and the range will always have a better answer than a shrug.

What the Pack Saves

Singles of Fumi Blackcurrant sit at £4.49 at the big pouch specialists and nearer £4.99 at vape shops, so ten bought one at a time costs £44.90 or more. The pack lands the same ten cans, 200 pouches, for £34.99, £3.50 per can, a £9.91 saving each cycle. For a flavour with a devoted-repeat-buyer profile, and blackcurrant people are exactly that, the arithmetic only ever runs one way. Run the same sums at vape-shop prices and the gap stretches past £14 a cycle, which buys a great deal of cordial.

Honesty to close, as ever. Nicotine is addictive in every strength and every shade of purple, and these pouches are for adults who already use nicotine, not for acquiring the habit out of cordial nostalgia. If quitting entirely is the goal, the free NHS Better Health quit smoking service is the better purchase.

Updated July 2026. Prices checked against UK pouch retailers at the time of writing.