IVG Pro 12 Prefilled Pods and Refills – Blue Razz Retro

The Flavour That Takes You Back to the Pick 'n' Mix

There's a specific kind of blue raspberry that only exists in sweet shop memory, not a real fruit anyone's ever actually eaten, but the flavour stamped onto foam shrimps, dib dabs, and those chewy blue bottle sweets that turned your tongue a colour no food should be. Blue Razz Retro on the IVG Pro 12 is chasing exactly that memory rather than anything resembling a fresh raspberry. The first draw is pure old-school pick 'n' mix: bright, synthetic-sweet, and a little sherbety around the edges, with a tang that arrives a beat after the initial sugar hit rather than fighting it for space. It's less refined than a lot of modern fruit blends deliberately try to be, and that's exactly the appeal, this one isn't chasing sophistication, it's chasing a specific, very British sweet-shop memory.

Settling Into the Retro Groove

A few draws in, the sweetness mellows out just enough for the raspberry tartness to come through more clearly, and that's really where the "retro" label earns its keep, the flavour starts to taste less like generic blue candy and more like an actual specific sweet from memory, the kind sold by weight from a plastic scoop rather than individually wrapped. It doesn't get more complex the deeper into the session you go; if anything it stays remarkably consistent draw after draw, which suits a flavour built around familiarity and nostalgia rather than one designed to evolve and surprise you.

The Exhale: Sherbet Fade

On the way out there's a faint, fizzy sherbet quality that lingers just behind the raspberry, a slight tingle rather than a full effervescent hit, before the whole thing fades relatively cleanly. It doesn't cling to the back of the throat the way some heavier candy flavours do, which keeps it from feeling like too much even across a longer session, you get the nostalgic hit, then it clears, ready for the next draw to do the same thing all over again.

Who's Reaching for This One

Blue Razz Retro is aimed squarely at people who grew up on actual UK sweet shops rather than at anyone chasing a sophisticated or unusual flavour experience, it's comfort vaping, in the same way a can of a childhood fizzy drink is comfort drinking. It suits downtime rather than focus time: evenings on the sofa, a break from something, the vape equivalent of reaching for a bag of penny sweets out of habit more than hunger. It's a strong option for anyone who's found modern "gourmet" vape flavours a bit try-hard and actually just wants something that tastes like a specific, uncomplicated sweet. Less suited to someone looking for a clean, refreshing daytime flavour, this one is deliberately indulgent rather than crisp.

Stacked Against Other Blue Raspberry Flavours

Next to Blue Razz Gami-style gummy flavours, Blue Razz Retro is flatter and less textured, there's no chewy-candy thickness being mimicked here, just straightforward sweet-and-sour blue flavour without the extra layer. Compared with a blue raspberry ice, it's obviously warmer with no cooling element at all, which makes it feel more like an actual sweet and less like a drink. And set against a raspberry lemonade style vape, Retro skips the citrus fizz entirely in favour of that specific sherbet-adjacent tang, landing closer to old-fashioned sweets than to anything drink-inspired.

To stop this one becoming background noise, a few flavours are worth rotating in:

• A menthol or ice flavour, since Retro has none of its own cooling element
• A tobacco-adjacent or less sweet flavour for genuine contrast on heavier vaping days
• A single, non-berry fruit flavour to stop the "blue" candy taste becoming the only note you register

Given how consistent and unchanging the flavour is draw after draw, rotating it out for a session or two tends to make it hit harder and taste more distinct when you come back to it, rather than it fading into the background through overfamiliarity.

Making the Most of It

Because IVG Pro 12 pods and refills are built around a long puff count, Blue Razz Retro is a flavour that needs to hold up over a genuinely long stretch of use, and it does that best when draws are kept steady rather than rushed, quick, sharp puffs tend to emphasise the sugary top note and lose some of the sherbet tang underneath. As with most sweet, candy-style flavours, it's also worth not vaping it back-to-back for hours on end; the nostalgia hit is strongest when it's a deliberate choice rather than the only thing you've tasted all day. A pod or refill that's been recently opened tends to carry the sherbet fizz more noticeably than one that's been open and exposed to air for a while.

Blue Razz Retro: Frequently Asked

Does Blue Razz Retro taste like real raspberry, or more like sweets?

Much more like sweets. It's deliberately built around the artificial blue raspberry flavour found in classic UK pick 'n' mix rather than trying to replicate an actual raspberry, sherbet tang included.

Is there any cooling or menthol element to this flavour?

No, Blue Razz Retro is a warm, straightforward sweet flavour with no ice or menthol built in, which is part of what makes it feel more like an actual sweet than a drink or dessert vape.

Does the flavour stay strong across a whole pod, given the higher puff count?

It holds up consistently well through most of a pod's life, staying fairly steady rather than fading fast, though like any flavour it's most vivid earlier on and mellows gradually as the pod empties.