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Velo Smooth Papaya 8mg
Flavour: Smooth Papaya
Strength: Lower Strength · 4-8mg
Ways to buy: single can
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£499
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Smooth Papaya, the tropical can at the top of Lower Strength
There is a can on the Velo shelf that people pick up because they have never seen papaya on a lid before, and this is it. Smooth Papaya comes from Velo's Lower Strength line, the 4mg to 8mg end of BAT's nicotine pouch brand, and it sits at the top of that line at 8mg a pouch. Most of the Velo shelf is mint, or fruit with a cold edge on it, so a soft tropical fruit with no cooling at all is a change of pace for the brand. Here's the thing. It is the only papaya can Velo makes for our shelf, and it keeps the papaya plain: no mint on top, no heat behind it. Proper fruit, left alone.
Papaya, ripe and soft, from first pouch to last
Papaya is a soft fruit, softer than mango, and that is how the pouch opens: ripe, gently sweet, a bit like the orange chunks in a fruit salad pot from the station kiosk. There is no sharp edge to it and no mint behind it, so nothing cuts across the fruit. It stays rounded and warm through the load and fades out slowly rather than snapping shut. If you have had the tinned tropical fruit at a Sunday buffet, you are close. Fair play to it, the flavour holds its shape to the last pouch.
8mg under the papaya, and the three Velo lines
Each pouch carries 8mg of nicotine. On our scale that is the first step of the medium band, 8mg through to 16mg, so it has a touch more about it than the 6mg cans beside it. Velo sorts its shelf into three lines: Lower Strength at 4mg to 8mg, Regular Strength at 10mg and Full Strength at 14mg to 17mg. Smooth Papaya is the last step on the first line before the 10mg cans. Slim white pouches, 20 to a can. In snus terms, a gentle number that lets a soft fruit do the talking.
- Nicotine
- 8mg a pouch
- Pouch
- Slim, white
- Count
- 20 a can
- Profile
- Ripe papaya, soft and sweet
For the fruit snus crowd who like it mellow
This is a can for the fruit snus crowd who like it mellow, the ones who go for peach over peppermint and would rather the afternoon stayed calm. It suits anyone new to Velo who wants to start on fruit without a cold edge, and regulars on stronger mints who want something softer for the evening. Fancy the same tropical idea with a fresh mint lift? Velo Tropical Ice at 10mg mixes pineapple, coconut, mango and papaya with a cool finish. Want the fruit warmed up instead? Velo Mango Flame at 10mg brings a slow heat. Give it a go.
Written by Harry Lowe