Maryliq Nic Salts E-Liquid by Lost Mary – Blackcurrant Apple

Tart Meets Crisp: The Point of Blackcurrant Apple

Maryliq's Blackcurrant Apple works because it doesn't try to make two fruits taste like one flavour. Blackcurrant brings the deep, slightly winey tartness that makes your mouth water a little, while the apple stays crisp and green rather than sweet and cooked, more Granny Smith than apple pie filling. The two don't blend into a single mushy fruit note. Instead they trade the lead back and forth, which is what gives this one its character compared with softer, single note fruit salts.

How It Unfolds From First Puff to Last

The opening puff is dominated by blackcurrant, and it arrives with real intensity, a dark, almost jammy tartness that's closer to the actual berry than the sweeter blackcurrant cordial version you might expect. There's a brief moment where it can feel sharp, almost puckering, before the second half of the flavour catches up.

That's where the apple steps in. Rather than softening the blackcurrant into something rounder, it cuts straight across it with a clean, slightly sour crispness, the kind of bite you get from an underripe apple rather than a ripe, sugary one. Mid vape is genuinely the best part of this flavour, because both fruits are audible at once instead of one drowning out the other, and the balance rarely tips too far in either direction.

On the exhale, the apple tends to linger a beat longer than the blackcurrant, leaving a crisp, slightly tart finish rather than a heavy sweetness sitting on the tongue. Aftertaste is short and clean, which makes it easy to go straight back in for another puff without feeling like your mouth is coated in sugar.

Who Should Reach For This, and When

This one suits vapers who find most fruit salts too soft or too one note, and who actually like a bit of sourness in their flavours rather than pure sweetness. If you gravitate towards sour sweets or tart apple varieties over the sugary ones, this will likely sit well with you. It's less of a beginner's flavour than something like a straightforward strawberry or watermelon, simply because the tartness is more assertive and takes a puff or two to adjust to.

It works particularly well in the afternoon, when a heavier dessert flavour can feel like too much but you still want something with real presence. The sourness also makes it a decent choice after a meal, cutting through in a way that a sweeter vape sometimes can't. It's less suited to first thing in the morning, since the tartness can feel a bit much on an empty stomach for some people, though that's a personal preference rather than a hard rule.

Comparing Blackcurrant Apple to Other Salts on the Shelf

Against a straight blackcurrant nic salt, this version feels lighter and less relentless, since the apple gives the palate somewhere to go rather than facing wall to wall dark berry for the entire session. Compared with apple based flavours that lean sweet, such as toffee apple or apple pie styles, this one is far more restrained and closer to actual fruit rather than a baked dessert. It also sits apart from typical mixed berry blends, which usually smooth every fruit into one indistinct flavour rather than letting two clear notes take turns the way this does.

Because the tartness in this flavour is fairly pronounced, palate fatigue can set in a little faster than with a softer, sweeter salt. Keeping a smoother, creamier flavour in rotation, something like a custard or a simple vanilla, gives your palate a genuine break and makes the return to Blackcurrant Apple taste sharper and more vivid again. A menthol also works as a reset if you'd rather stay in fruit adjacent territory, since the coolness clears the tartness rather than fighting it.

A Couple of Practical Notes on Getting the Best From It

This flavour tends to taste its truest on a fresh coil, since the sharper top notes from both the blackcurrant and the apple are the first things to dull as a coil starts to wear. If the flavour ever starts reading as flatter or more one dimensional than usual, a coil change is usually the fix rather than the bottle itself. Running it at the lower wattage a pod system is designed for also helps, since overheating a nic salt tends to push the sweetness forward while burning off the crisper, tarter notes that make this flavour work in the first place.

Store the bottle away from heat and direct light, ideally somewhere consistently cool, since both fruits in this blend rely on more delicate flavour compounds than a heavier tobacco or custard mix, and those compounds fade noticeably faster if the liquid spends weeks sitting in a warm car or on a sunny windowsill.

Blackcurrant Apple: Quick Questions

Is the apple sweet or sharp in this flavour?

It sits on the sharp, crisp side rather than the sweet side, closer to a tart green apple than a ripe red one, which is what lets it stand up to the blackcurrant instead of getting lost behind it.

How does this compare to a plain blackcurrant nic salt?

It's noticeably lighter and less intense over a long session, since the apple gives your palate a break from the deeper, winey blackcurrant note rather than keeping you in it puff after puff.

What nicotine strength suits this flavour best?

In the UK, nic salts are capped at 20mg per ml, and this flavour holds up well at that strength since the tartness cuts through regardless. If you'd prefer the fruit to feel a touch softer, 10mg is worth trying, though both strengths are for over eighteens only.