VELO Slim – Guava Jalapeno 8mg

Sweet tropical fruit with a gentle chilli kick sums up VELO Guava Jalapeño 8mg, a strong slim pouch from VELO’s Vivid Fusions range. Guava does most of the talking and the jalapeño adds a mild spice around the edges. Twenty pouches fill each 14g can.

How VELO Guava Jalapeño 8mg balances fruit and spice

VELO describes the guava as sweet and fruity and the jalapeño as a mild spice, so this is a fruit pouch first and a chilli pouch second. Expect the sweetness to arrive first, with the pepper building gently behind it. If other chilli flavours have felt too fiery, the gentler pepper here is the point. It suits people who enjoy sweet chilli sauce or spicy fruit salsa more than straight heat.

Guava Jalapeño or Lime Flame?

Both use jalapeño, but VELO Lime Flame 8mg pairs it with tart lime and adds a warming, tingling effect from VELO Sensates. Guava Jalapeño sits outside the Sensations range, so its spice comes from the flavour itself. From another brand, LOOP Strong Hot Mango combines tropical fruit and heat at a similar dose.

The slim cut and the 8mg dose

The slim pouch is around 38mm long and 12mm wide, and each one weighs about 0.7g. At 8mg it lands in VELO’s Strong tier with three of six dots, so the nicotine is noticeable without drowning out the fruit. Like the other Vivid Fusions blends, it comes in the standard 14g slim can.

• Nicotine: 8mg a pouch
• Strength by weight: 11.4mg/g
• Level: Strong (3 of 6 VELO dots)
• Format: Slim, 38mm x 12mm
• Pouch count: 20
• Net weight: 14g

See VELO’s full flavour list for the other Vivid Fusions blends, Coconut Lime and Guava Passionfruit, and the rest of the brand’s fruit cans.