Candy and sweets vape flavours: sour, fizzy, chewy and classic

Sweets flavours copy confectionery rather than fruit or desserts. They are bright, bold and simple, built to hit hard from the first puff.

Bubblegum is a pink, fruity blend that tastes of nothing in nature but everything you remember. Sour sweets add a tangy coating over fruit flavours. Fizzy sherbet tingles with a sharp, sparkling edge. Candy floss is pure spun-sugar sweetness. Boiled sweets are clear and fruity, while chews and taffy are softer and creamier.

The sweets and candy range covers all of these. Most adult sweets fans pick one style they love and use it as a treat alongside a cleaner everyday flavour.

Sweets flavours are often mixed with fruit to give them a recognisable centre. The combinations that come up again and again:

• Fizzy cherry: sour cherry with a sherbet kick, like the Riot Squad Cherry Fizzle.
• Bubblegum fruit: bubblegum with strawberry or kiwi.
• Blue sweets: blue raspberry blends, sweet and sour. See our blue raspberry guide.
• Sour apple and sour berry: tangy and sharp.
• Candy floss: sometimes with vanilla or strawberry.
• Liquorice and aniseed: the old-fashioned sweet-shop choice.

Bubblegum divides people more than any of the others: some find it nostalgic, others find it too perfumed.

Sharp sweets styles, such as sour and fizzy, work best in a mouth-to-lung pod with a 50/50 nic salt. The tight draw keeps the tang crisp, and the smaller amount of vapour per puff stops the sweetness becoming overwhelming.

Softer sweets like candy floss, bubblegum and chews also come as 70/30 shortfills for sub-ohm tanks, where they fill out into big, sweet clouds. Keep the power at the low end, as sweet liquids caramelise fast when overheated.

Nicotine is addictive. A bold sweet flavour does nothing to change strength, so pick the number on the label to suit your device.

Sweets flavours are the coil killers of vaping. They depend on sweeteners, most commonly sucralose, and when that heats on cotton it caramelises into a dark crust. You will usually notice the flavour going flat, then muddy, then burnt.

There is no actual sugar in e-liquid, which surprises people. Sugar does not vaporise cleanly, so liquids get their sweetness from sweeteners instead. They taste sweet, but they still build up on the coil. Keep spare coils or pods, run low power, and rotate with a cleaner flavour like citrus or menthol to stretch each one.

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Sweets-style flavours get a lot of attention in conversations about vaping and young people, so it is worth being clear. Vapes and e-liquids are for adults: it is illegal to sell them to anyone under 18 in the UK, and it is also illegal for an adult to buy them on behalf of someone underage.

We check the age of every customer before an order ships. You can read how that works on our age verification page. If you do not already smoke or vape, there is no reason to start: these flavours are aimed at adult vapers who enjoy bold tastes, nothing more.

Sweets flavours are already loud, so the best partners either sharpen them or give them something real to hang on:

• Sour and fruit: sour apple, sour cherry or sour berry.
• Fizz and cola: the classic fizzy cola sweets profile.
• Candy floss and strawberry: sweet and fairground-like.
• Bubblegum and kiwi: unusual, but surprisingly balanced.
• Ice: cuts sweetness and keeps it from cloying.
• Aniseed and liquorice: a grown-up, sweet-shop classic.

Avoid pairing two very sweet styles together unless you enjoy extreme sweetness and do not mind changing coils every few days. One sweet partner and one sharp partner is the reliable formula.