Nordic Spirit Perlz, reviewed as a format
A dissolvable nicotine pearl listed at 1 mg and 2 mg, assessed on what its label can and cannot tell a buyer — and on the legal category it is about to be named in.
Perlz is Nordic Spirit’s dissolvable line, and it is not a pouch. The brand describes the product as 100% dissolvable nicotine — there is no sachet of material to seat and nothing to remove afterwards. That single difference changes what the label on the front can be made to mean, which is why this desk is reviewing it as a format rather than as a flavour.
What is listed
Every figure above is the brand’s own, reported as printed. This site does not convert strength figures, estimate what a product delivers, or offer any view on how much of anything a person should take. On a dissolvable format that last refusal is the whole reason this needs assessing carefully.
What the format genuinely answers
There is a real complaint behind Perlz. A pouch has to be placed, kept in position, then taken out and disposed of, and in user reports the visible bulge under the lip recurs as the objection rather than anything about the nicotine. Those are reports, not measurements, and we record them as such. A dissolvable pearl removes all three steps at once. As product design, it is a clean answer.
The stated strengths are also low by the standards of the shelf this site records, and they are printed plainly as milligrams rather than buried in a tier.
Where the number stops working
Our standing position is that a stated milligram figure describes content and not what reaches the user, and that the two are different quantities on any product. On a pouch, the figure at least sits on an object that can be put down: the pouch is in place for as long as it is left there, and taking it out ends the use of that pouch.
A dissolvable format offers no equivalent step. The printed figure therefore carries less interpretive weight here than the same figure carries on a pouch, and nothing on the pack acknowledges the difference. That is our central criticism, and it is structural: it would apply to any dissolvable in this category.
Moderate and Strong, across a range of two
The words are the second problem. Perlz is listed with two strengths and both carry a descriptor: Moderate at 1 mg and Strong at 2 mg. Within a two-product line those words cannot mean anything except lower and upper, because there is nothing else for them to be relative to.
That would be unremarkable if the words were unique to this line. They are not. They are the vocabulary this category uses across pouch ranges built on entirely different numbers, and a shopper carrying an intuition about what Strong means from one shelf to another has no basis for it. Word scales are brand-internal shorthands wearing the clothes of a standard, and a two-item ladder is that at its most compressed.
Availability
As recorded on 23 August 2026, the whole line was showing out of stock on the brand’s own UK site. Stock is a dated observation, not a permanent condition, but it is the relevant fact for anyone reading this as a buying guide today, and it is why this review carries no purchase link.
What happens on 29 October 2026
The Department of Health and Social Care’s guidance on selling vaping and nicotine products sets out that from 29 October 2026 the new restrictions on sale to under-18s, proxy purchasing, free distribution and substantial promotional discounts apply to nicotine pearls, alongside nicotine pouches and nicotine strips. Perlz is squarely inside that.
Two things follow. A format that would ordinarily be introduced through sampling and trial discounting loses both routes on that date. And being named in law is not endorsement by it: this is an age-of-sale and promotion regime, not a product-standards assessment. Nicotine pearls remain neither licensed as medicines nor covered by the Tobacco and Related Products Regulations that govern e-liquids.
Pros and cons
Verdict
For the record: Perlz is the clearest case yet of a stated milligram figure being asked to carry more than it can. A buyer reading 1 mg on a dissolvable as though it were 1 mg on a pouch has had no warning from the pack that the two are not the same kind of statement. That is a labelling failure rather than a product one.
Perlz contains nicotine and nicotine is an addictive chemical. This record is kept for adults of 18 and over who already use nicotine, and nothing in it describes any pearl, pouch or strip as safe, as lower risk, or as a way of stopping smoking.