Salt and vanilla is a pairing that needs almost no explanation to anyone who has ever sprinkled a pinch of fleur de sel onto a scoop of good ice cream. The salt does not compete with the sweetness — it clarifies it, lifts it, and makes the vanilla flavor taste more fully and completely like itself. Tirol Choco understood this instinctively when they first released this flavor back in 2007, and the years of fan requests for its return suggest the rest of Japan agreed. Now back as a seasonal favorite, salt vanilla arrives in its most refined form yet. The vanilla chocolate shell is made light and creamy, with a gentle milky sweetness that melts cleanly on the tongue. Into that base, Tirol has folded ara-shio — coarse, unrefined sea salt from the Sea of Okhotsk, harvested from the cold, mineral-rich waters off the coast of Hokkaido. It is a salt valued in Japanese cooking for its rounded flavor and natural mineral content, and here it does exactly what good salt should: it sharpens the vanilla, adds the faintest savory edge, and keeps each piece from ever feeling too sweet. Inside the chocolate shell sits a soft marshmallow center — yielding, pillowy, and light — which adds both a gentle textural contrast and a quality that makes the candy particularly pleasant to eat in warmer weather, when heavier confections can feel stifling. The combination of airy marshmallow, creamy vanilla, and the clean lift of Okhotsk salt is one that feels genuinely refreshing for a chocolate candy. The individual wrappers feature Shio Bunny-chan — the candy’s original character, a marshmallow-bodied rabbit who delivers salt crystals by toy laser gun — in five different expressions spelling out S-I-O-B-A-N-I-R-A across the back of each piece. A small delight worth looking for. A seasonal release, returning by popular demand every spring and summer. About this item Item Name : Salty Vanilla Brand : Tirol Choco Item Form : Semi-Chocolate Number of Items : 5 Counts (Pack of 1)
