Sesh+ Nicotine Pouches

This is an oral nicotine pouch, not a vape. A pouch sits between your upper lip and gum for twenty to forty minutes and releases nicotine and flavor through the gum line. Nothing is heated, inhaled or charged, which is the whole reason people carry them into offices, flights and anywhere a device is not an option.

What makes Sesh different is the pouch, not the flavor list. ZYN, Velo, On! and most of the category build on a dry cellulose filler: it holds the nicotine and the flavor and gives most of both up in the first four or five minutes, after which you are holding a dry pouch that has stopped doing anything. Sesh builds on a chewing gum base — maltitol, calcium lactate, Alba fiber, glycerol, propylene glycol and MCT oil — so the pouch softens within a minute or two and keeps releasing across the whole session. It is a construction difference rather than a flavoring one, and it shows up most on the two flavors that are hardest to sustain.

The five flavors

• Mint — spearmint in front, peppermint underneath. Cool and rounded, without the sweet bite of the wintergreen can. The one to start on.
• Wintergreen — sweet, sharp, the longest cold finish in the range. The closest thing here to a traditional dip flavor, and the can most people switch over for.
• Mango — the only fruit, and the only can with no cooling agent layered on top. Ripe mango with a light citrus edge.
• Clear — unflavored. Nothing on your breath, and the honest can for working out which strength actually suits you.
• Cappuccino — roasted coffee with a milky finish, closer to an espresso drink than a coffee candy. Almost nobody else in the category makes one, and it is the flavor that goes out of stock first.

Strength and format

Every flavor comes in 4 mg, 6 mg and 8 mg per pouch of pharmaceutical grade synthetic S-nicotine, so the selector above is flavor and strength together — fifteen combinations, one price. Sesh states its products contain no tobacco. Each can holds 20 pouches at 52 g and a pack is five cans, so one order is 100 pouches. Designed in Sweden, which is where the format originates.

Worth knowing before you pick a number: flavor masks strength. A sweet 8 mg wintergreen feels milder than an 8 mg Clear, which is how people routinely settle on a strength that is wrong for them.