Helwit Violet 3.5mg
Flavour: Violet
Strength: Standard · 3.5mg
Ways to buy: single can
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Helwit Violet, a flower in a snus can
Here's the thing about Helwit Violet: it is not a fruit and it is not a mint. It is a flower, and it is happy about it. The can sits in Helwit's Standard line, the brand's 3.5mg rung, with Nicotine 2/4 printed on the lid. The maker is YOIK AB, a Swedish company that runs its own plant at Gransholm in Småland, outside Växjö, and Made in Sweden runs along the side of the can. Floral snus is a small corner of the shelf, and this is the gentlest way into it.
Parma violet sweetness, soft around the edges
The maker calls it a bouquet, flowery and fresh, with sweetness around the edges, and anyone who grew up on Parma Violets from the newsagent will know the taste before the lid is off. Pop one in and the floral note is there straight away, light and perfumed, with a soft sweetness wrapped round it. It stays delicate the whole way through the load rather than building, and the finish is clean and faintly sweet. Nothing sharp, nothing sour. A proper old fashioned sweet shop flavour, done quietly.
3.5mg under the violet, where Standard sits
Each pouch carries 3.5mg of nicotine, which puts it in our light band, the one that runs from 1mg to 8mg. On Helwit's ladder that is Standard, the first of three steps on our shelf: Standard at 3.5mg, Regular at 4.5mg, and Strong, where the cans run from 6mg to 9mg. Slim pouches, 20 in each can, and 10g to a can. Uptake is gentle, the curve is slow, and the flavour leads from start to finish. Light snus for people who pick a can by its flavour first.
- Nicotine
- 3.5mg a pouch
- Pouch
- Slim
- Count
- 20 a can
- Profile
- Floral violet, sweet
Violet lovers, and the 7.5mg one above it
This is a can for anyone who wants something sweet and a bit different with a light number behind it, whether they are new to snus or just after a change from fruit. If you like the violet and want more behind it, the same flower turns up again in the brand's Strong line as Helwit Violet 7.5mg. For another sweet shop flavour at the same 3.5mg, Helwit Raspberry Liquorice is right beside it on the Standard rung. Give it a go.
Written by Harry Lowe