TEREA Black Menthol Japan

At the top of Japan’s menthol intensity scale sits Black Menthol, built around what IQOS calls a strong cooling menthol stimulus carrying a subtle green fruit aroma. “Black” in the Japanese naming system always signals maximum chill, and this is the plain-menthol member of that tier.

The cooling hits immediately and does not fade across the stick. A light green fruit note sits above it, adding just enough brightness to stop the profile reading as purely medicinal, but the menthol is unambiguously the主役 here. The tobacco base is present mainly as structure.

Heavy menthol cigarette smokers making the switch tend to land here first, because nothing milder in the range delivers a comparable throat sensation. It also works as a palate reset between richer regular variants. Twenty sticks per pack for IQOS ILUMA i, ILUMA i Prime and ILUMA i One. Not for sale to anyone under 20.