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Good Times Adds Blue Raspberry to Sweet Woods Leaf as Two-Packs Rise to $1.69
Good Times USA has expanded its limited-edition lineup by adding Blue Raspberry to the Sweet Woods Leaf rotation, while simultaneously increasing the printed price of standard two-packs to $1.69. You can find these new seasonal releases alongside the brand's permanent flavors in our Good Times cigarillos collection. The Blue Raspberry five-packs reached online wholesalers on August 26, 2026, marking the third limited drop this year following the Pineapple Soda and Cherry Cola releases. This article details the new flavor profile, the updated pricing structure for the natural-leaf line, and how these changes fit into current market trends.
The New Limited Editions
Sweet Woods is Good Times' answer to Backwoods: a rustic, natural-leaf cigarillo the company describes on its website as a cheroot, "believed to be the first style of cigar ever rolled." The brand sells it in two-count pouches, five-count packs, and a California-only edition.
The five-count Sweet Woods Leaf packs are where Good Times runs its limited editions. Retail listings at Tobacco General and Tobacco Stock describe Sweet Woods Leaf Blue Raspberry as "a fresh and limited edition flavor" and tell shoppers to buy it before it is gone. The cigars are machine-made with a real tobacco leaf wrapper, sold six packs of five to a box, and the box lists at $20.99 at wholesale.
Blue Raspberry is the third limited edition in the five-pack format this year:
- Pineapple Soda arrived at wholesalers on May 27.
- Cherry Cola followed on July 20, listed at $19.99 a box.
- Blue Raspberry landed on August 26 at $20.99 a box.
None of the three appears on Good Times' permanent Sweet Woods Leaf menu, which lists flavors such as Natural, Vanilla, Russian Cream, Honey Berry, Rum River, Platinum, Golden Honey, Banana, and Sweet Aroma. That is consistent with how the company treats seasonal drops: they come and go, and the core line stays put.
Blue Raspberry is also having a moment across the category. Swisher Sweets added a Blue Raspberry to its Leaf Wraps in its late-summer refresh, and White Owl Blue Raspberry Cigarillos, built around blue raspberry, recently won a convenience-store new-product award in August.
The Two-Packs Get a New Price
The quieter change is on the Sweet Woods two-count pouches, the format most convenience stores carry. Wholesaler listings show the two-packs arriving in new packaging marked $1.69, starting with Natural and Russian Cream on August 12 and continuing with Vanilla and Silver on August 26.
Tobacco Stock's product copy states plainly that $1.69 "is the new price point in the Sweet Woods line-up."
Until this summer, the same pouches carried a $1.49 pre-price. Mango and Pineapple Soda two-packs listed at $1.49 as recently as February and May 2026, and Watermelon was still at $1.39 in September 2025. A 20-cent step is larger than the dime Good Times added to its Mini cigarillos in September, and it moves Sweet Woods above the $1.39 pre-price on Swisher Sweets Classic pouches and level with Swisher's BLK Tip pouches.
Good Times has not announced the change publicly. As with the Minis, the new price shows up as a new SKU because the price is printed on the pouch, which means both versions can sit on shelves at the same time until older stock sells through.
What It Means for A2Z Shoppers
A2Z carries the Sweet Woods two-packs in Natural, Vanilla, Russian Cream, Silver, Platinum, Banana, Cognac, Rum River, Golden Honey, and Strawberry Cream at $16.50 a box of 30 cigars, plus the Dark series at $17.50, and the Sweet Woods Leaf wraps in boxes of 30 two-packs. Those listings currently reflect the older packaging. Expect the $1.69 pouches to replace them flavor by flavor over the next few months, and expect the per-box price to move with them.
For the limited editions, the practical advice is simple: if Blue Raspberry or Cherry Cola appeals, buy it when you see it. Good Times does not give its seasonal flavors a fixed run, and Pineapple Soda has already cycled through most retailers.
The Bottom Line
Good Times is doing two things at once with Sweet Woods. It is using short-run flavors like Blue Raspberry and Cherry Cola to keep the natural-leaf line fresh against Backwoods and Swisher Leaf, and it is quietly raising the everyday price of the two-packs to $1.69. Both moves say the same thing about the budget cigarillo market in 2026: volumes are soft, costs are up, and manufacturers are leaning on novelty and pricing to protect the category.