77 VB Edition Bergamot Nicotine Pouches

What this listing actually is

The first of those comes immediately. VB Edition is the manufacturer's own series name for a run of cans within the 77 line. We do not hold a record of what the two initials stand for, we have not been told, and we are not going to guess at it in order to make the paragraph sound better informed. It is a series label. It appears on the lid, it appears in the product name, and that is the extent of what we can say about it honestly.

The second gap is stock. At the time this page was written, this can is not in stock with us. It has its own section further down, because it changes what this page is useful for: right now it is a reference page for a product you cannot add to a basket here, and most of the practical value on it is in the comparisons and in the sections about the format.

Before anything else, the necessary line: this is an age-restricted nicotine product for adults who already use nicotine. The full wording sits in its own section at the foot of the page, and it is not decoration.

Bergamot, taken as a flavour name

Here is an unusual thing about this particular listing, and it is worth being open about it rather than writing around it. Our structured flavour data for this can is empty. Most products on this site carry one or two flavour tags — mint, berry, watermelon, cola — which is what drives our flavour shelves. This one carries none. The only place the word Bergamot appears in the facts we hold is in the product name itself.

That has a practical consequence you may already have noticed: this can does not appear on any of our flavour category pages. It is reachable through the 77 brand listing and through the medium band, and not through a flavour route. If you were hunting for it by flavour and could not find it, that is why, and it is a gap in our tagging rather than anything to do with the product.

So what does the word describe? Bergamot names a citrus. As a flavour and an aroma it reads as citrus of a particular kind — not the round sweetness of an orange and not the direct sourness of a lemon, but something drier and more perfumed than either, with a faintly bitter edge behind the top note. The smell is the part most people recognise first, and the usual point of reference is Earl Grey tea, which is scented with it. If you have smelled that, you have smelled the general character being aimed at here.

In a pouch, a citrus note of that type tends to arrive as aroma before it arrives as taste. You get it off the open can, then you get it again as a perfumed citrus on the tongue, with the bitter edge sitting underneath rather than on top. It is a flavour that reads as drier than a berry or a cola, and less cold than a mint, because there is no mint tagged on this can to put a chill behind it.

That is as far as we will take the description. We are describing a taste and a smell, not making a case for it. Whether a dry perfumed citrus is a flavour you want in your mouth for half an hour is entirely a matter of your own palate, and nothing we write here can settle that for you. If it turns out not to be, there is a wide spread of other flavour characters on our shelves — UBBS Cherry at £19.95 for something sweet and direct, Fumi Blackcurrant at £27.90 for a darker fruit, SYX Apple Kiwi at £29.90 for a fruit pairing that is closer to the green end of the range.

The format itself: what one pouch does once it leaves the can

This is the section that matters most if you are reading the page to understand the object rather than the flavour, so it is the longest one here, and it is written about the format in general as much as about this can in particular.

Putting one in

A pouch is a small, soft, sealed packet. You take the lid off the can, lift one out with a finger, and put the lid back on before you do anything else — that habit is worth building, because an open can is an easy thing to knock over. The pouch goes into the mouth and is placed between the lip and the gum, most often under the top lip, and it stays there. It is not chewed. It is not sucked. It is not swallowed, and neither is the pouch itself at any point. You place it, you leave it, and you take it out again when you are finished with it.

That is the whole mechanism of the format and it does not change from brand to brand. A can from 77, a can of Klint Arctic Mint at £36.90, a can of Velo Bright Spearmint at £4.19 — the object differs, the routine does not.

How it sits, and moving it

Once in, a pouch sits in the fold between lip and gum and is held there by the lip. It does not need to be held in place by anything else and it should not need adjusting constantly. Most people settle on one position — front and centre under the top lip, or off to one side — and stay with it out of habit.

You can move it. Shifting a pouch from one side of the mouth to the other with the tongue is ordinary and people do it without thinking, usually when the spot it has been sitting in starts to feel like a spot. If it is uncomfortable wherever you put it, the sensible response is to take it out. There is nothing about the format that requires you to persist with a pouch that is not sitting well, and comfort varies between people in ways no product page can predict.

Talking is unaffected for most people after the first few times, though the very first pouch anyone puts in tends to feel conspicuous in a way it stops feeling fairly quickly. Eating with one in is possible and drinking with one in is possible; whether either is pleasant is personal, and plenty of people take a pouch out before a meal simply because they would rather taste the meal.

How long one stays in

The honest answer is that the range is wide enough that an average would mislead you. Some people take a pouch out after five or ten minutes. Others leave one in for the better part of an hour. We are not going to publish a figure for this can, because we do not hold one and because a number on a shop page reads like an instruction whether or not it is meant as one.

What we can describe is what usually ends it. The flavour fades. A pouch does not stop tasting of anything all at once — the character thins out gradually, the way flavour thins out of chewing gum, and at some point the thing in your lip is no longer delivering the taste you put it there for. That point is when most people take one out. Any usage guidance printed on the can by the manufacturer is the guidance that applies, and it takes precedence over anything general we have written here.

The lid, the catch compartment and disposal

The can is the standard round pouch tin: a shallow cylinder, lid on top, small enough to close your hand around. Under the lid there is usually a catch compartment — a shallow chamber separated from the main body where the unused pouches sit. Used pouches go into that chamber.

It is a practical feature rather than a clever one. It exists so that a used pouch has somewhere to go when there is no bin in reach, and so that you are not carrying one loose in a pocket. It fills up. Emptying it earlier than you strictly need to is better practice than letting it reach the point where the lid stops seating flat, because a lid that does not seat is a lid that comes off in a bag.

Disposal is general waste. A used pouch goes in a bin — not down a sink, not down a lavatory, not out of a car window. Keep used and unused pouches physically separate, which the catch compartment exists to make easy, and keep the whole can away from children and from pets. The can is a plastic tin and whether your local authority takes that plastic in kerbside recycling varies by council; we cannot answer that for your postcode.

Portion size

We do not hold the pouch dimensions for this product, so we will not tell you whether it is a slim format, a regular one, or something between the two. That is printed information and the can is where to read it. The one thing we can say with confidence is that every pouch inside a given can is the same as every other one in it, so the first pouch out of a can tells you what the rest will be like physically.

10.4mg, read as a number on a lid

This can carries one declared figure: 10.4mg. That is the nicotine content the manufacturer declares per pouch, printed on the can, and reproduced by us exactly as given to us. It is a label figure and nothing more. This section explains what the number is; it does not tell you what to do with it, and nothing here is a recommendation.

The figure is why this can sits on our medium band shelf rather than elsewhere. We group by declared figure because it is the only consistent thing we have to group by. A can declaring a larger figure goes on the Strong shelf; a larger figure again and it sits on the Extra Strong shelf. Those are filing decisions about printed numbers, not judgements about products, and nothing about a higher band makes a can better than a lower one — they are different numbers on different lids.

A caution about comparing figures across brands, which we repeat on every strength section we write because it genuinely matters. Manufacturers do not all declare in the same way, and a declared figure attaches to a particular pouch from a particular maker. Two cans from two brands showing similar numbers are not therefore equivalent to each other. We publish what each manufacturer publishes. We do not convert between them, we do not normalise them, and we do not hold the underlying technical information that would let anyone do that honestly. For a specific can, that can's own labelling is the source.

What we will not do in this section is tell you which figure suits you. We do not know you, we are not qualified to advise, and a shop page is not the place for that kind of advice even if we were. The number is information on a lid. Read it as information.

Coming to this can from a different brand

A fair share of the questions we get about a can like this one come from people who already use pouches and are moving across from another brand — they have a can they know, they are looking at a can they do not, and they want to know what is genuinely different. This section is for that, and there is no claim of any kind attached to it.

What actually differs between one brand's can and another's

Less than the packaging suggests, and more than the brand names suggest. The format is identical across every product we sell: a soft sealed pouch that goes between lip and gum. What changes between cans is a short list.

• The flavour character. This is the biggest real difference and the one most people are actually choosing on. A perfumed citrus like this one and a double mint like White Fox Double Mint at £34.90 are not variations on a theme; they are different experiences in the mouth.
• The declared figure. Different cans declare different numbers, and as above those numbers are not directly comparable between makers.
• The physical pouch. Size and shape vary between products and between a maker's own lines. We do not hold those specifications, so we cannot tabulate them for you.
• The can. Diameter, depth, lid action and how firmly the lid seats all vary a little. It sounds trivial until you have carried one in a coat pocket for a week.
• The price. Ours range widely. This can is £39.90; Nordic Spirit Blueberry is listed at £4.49. Those are not like-for-like offers and the pack contents behind each price differ, which is covered in the buying section below.

Questions of this kind we can answer

Will the routine be the same? Yes — placement, keeping it in, taking it out and disposal are the same across everything we stock. Will a can from a different brand fit in the same pocket? Almost certainly, since the round tin is close to a standard. Can you keep more than one brand on the go at once? People do, constantly; there is a section below on what tends to be kept alongside a can like this.

Questions of this kind we cannot answer

Which of two cans you will prefer. How one will compare to another for you specifically. Whether a given declared figure on one lid lines up with a different figure on another lid in any way you would notice. All three of those are asked in good faith and all three would require us to make claims we have no basis for. The only route to those answers is trying a can, and the only person who can make that call is you.

Out of stock: what that means on this page

As noted at the top, our records show 77 VB Edition Bergamot as out of stock at the time of writing. We publish the page anyway, because a catalogue with holes in it is harder to use than one that tells you what exists and what is currently unavailable.

What we cannot tell you is when it will be back, or whether it will. We do not hold restock dates, we are not given them reliably in advance, and publishing a guess would be worse than publishing nothing. If the listing shows a stock notification option when you look, that is the mechanism to use; if it does not, checking the 77 range periodically is the practical approach.

In the meantime, the rest of the 77 line is listed at the same £39.90 and remains the closest thing on the shelf in brand terms — 77 Apple Mint, 77 Forest Fruits and the others set out in the next section. None of them is a bergamot, and we are not going to pretend any of them is a substitute for one on flavour. They are the same brand at the same price, which is a real similarity and the only one we can claim.

Where Bergamot sits among the other 77 cans

We list 29 products under the 77 brand, and the six we hold nearest to this one give a fair picture of how the range spreads out. All six are priced at £39.90, the same as this can.

• 77 Apple Mint — a fruit-and-mint pairing, which puts a cold edge behind the fruit that a plain citrus like Bergamot does not have.
• 77 Forest Fruits — the dark mixed-berry end of the range, sweeter and rounder than a citrus.
• 77 Cola Ice — cola with a cold note over it, for when the flavour you want is a soft-drink character rather than a fruit.
• 77 Cola Vanilla — the same cola family taken in the other direction, with vanilla rounding it instead of ice sharpening it.
• 77 Ghost Mini Mango — a tropical fruit in the brand's Ghost Mini line, which is a different can format within the same brand.
• 77 Ghost Original Mini — the plain version of that Ghost Mini line.

Two things are worth drawing out of that list. The first is that 77 covers a lot of flavour territory — citrus, orchard fruit, dark berry, cola, tropical — so if the brand's cans suit you, there is somewhere to go within it. The second is that the Ghost Mini pair are a different physical proposition from this can, being a mini format, so brand familiarity does not mean the object in your hand will be the same.

What people keep alongside a can like this

Almost nobody who uses pouches keeps only one flavour in the house. Citrus in particular tends to be kept as one of two or three, because a dry perfumed note is a distinctive thing to have in your mouth all day. Here is what sits near this can on our shelves, and why each one is worth knowing about.

For a cold mint counterpart, Klint Arctic Mint at £36.90 is the nearest thing in price to this can, while Velo Bright Spearmint at £4.19 and Edge Spearmint at £14.95 cover the spearmint end at two very different price points. White Fox Double Mint at £34.90 is the doubled-up mint option, and XQS Arctic Freeze at £39.90 matches this can's price exactly if you want the cold end without changing what you spend.

For fruit, the spread is wide. Nordic Spirit Blueberry at £4.49 is the cheapest listing of the group; UBBS Cherry at £19.95 and SYX Apple Kiwi at £29.90 sit in the middle; Fumi Blackcurrant at £27.90 covers the darker blackcurrant character; and Pablo Silver Edition Blue Raspberry at £39.90 is a blue raspberry at this can's price.

The point of keeping two or three cans on the go is variety of taste, nothing more than that. We are not suggesting you buy more; we are describing what people do and pointing at where each option lives on the site.

Keeping a can in reasonable condition

Pouches are not delicate, but a can does have a best version of itself and keeping it there costs nothing.

Keep the lid on and seated properly. That is nine-tenths of it. A can with the lid pressed home is a closed container and the contents stay as they were; a can left open on a kitchen worktop is not, and the flavour will thin over time. Store it somewhere cool and out of direct sunlight — a drawer, a cupboard, a bag — rather than on a windowsill or on a dashboard, where heat and light will get at it.

Some people keep cans in a fridge. It is a common habit and it does no harm; whether it makes a noticeable difference is the kind of thing people disagree about and we are not going to settle it. If you do, keep the can sealed and keep it away from anything in the fridge you would not want flavoured.

Keep cans out of reach of children and of animals. This is not a general tidiness point — it is the most important line in this section. A pouch can is small, colourful and easy to open, which is exactly the combination that makes it something to store deliberately rather than leave on a coffee table.

Finally: check the date on the can, keep the used-pouch compartment emptied so the lid keeps seating, and do not decant pouches into a different container. The can is a sealed environment and the pouches keep best inside it.

One strength, one price: what there is to choose between

There is not much, and we would rather say so than manufacture a decision for you. This listing has a single variant: 10.4mg at £39.90. There is no second strength of Bergamot, no multipack option and no alternative size in our data. So the only real choices around this can are whether you want this flavour at all, and what you set alongside it.

Our data does not state how many cans come in this listing. The field is empty, and we are not going to reason our way to a number from the price. If the quantity matters to you — and at £39.90 it reasonably might — the listing page itself and the product images are where to check before ordering, and our contact route is there if the page does not make it clear.

If what you actually want is a different declared figure rather than a different flavour, the route is the strength shelves rather than this listing. The medium band holds 135 cans including this one; the Strong shelf and the Extra Strong listing hold the cans declaring higher figures. Which of those bands you browse is your decision and we have no advice to offer on it.

Ordering, delivery and the age check

We sell to adults in the UK who are 18 or over and who already use nicotine. That is not a formality to be waved through: age verification applies at checkout, and ID may be requested on delivery. If you are not able to produce it, the courier can decline to hand the parcel over. Ordering on someone else's behalf, or for anyone under 18, is not something we will knowingly supply.

On price: this can is listed at £39.90. Prices across our shelves vary enormously — the Velo listing mentioned earlier is £4.19 and several cans here are £39.90 — and that spread reflects different pack contents rather than one product being four or five times the thing another one is. Compare what a listing actually contains before comparing the numbers on two listings.

Delivery timings, carriers and charges are set out in our delivery information and at checkout, where they apply to your basket and your address rather than in the abstract. We are not going to quote a timescale in product copy that might be out of date by the time you read it. Since this particular can is currently out of stock, none of the above is immediately actionable for it — it applies to whatever you do order.

Finding your way from this page

If this can is not what you came for, here is how the site is laid out. The full product listing is the top-level view of everything we stock. From there, two routes narrow things down: by declared strength, through the medium, strong and extra strong shelves; or by brand.

The brand route is the one most people use once they know what they like. The 77 page gathers all 29 of that brand's cans in one place. The Pablo listing and the Cuba listing are two of the larger ranges elsewhere on the site and are worth a look if you are working out which brand's cans suit you.

Flavour shelves exist too, though as explained above this particular can does not appear on any of them because its flavour data is empty. For cans that are tagged, the flavour route works well and is the quickest way to find, say, every mint on the site at once.

Questions we are actually asked

What does VB stand for?

We do not know. It is the manufacturer's own series name, we have not been given an expansion of the initials, and we are not going to invent one. If you need a definitive answer, the manufacturer is the source. What we can tell you is that VB Edition denotes a particular run of cans within the 77 line, and that it appears on the lid.

Why is there no flavour tag on this product?

Because our flavour data for this can is empty. The word Bergamot is in the product name but is not recorded as a flavour tag in the facts we hold, which is why the can does not appear on our flavour category shelves. It is a gap in our data rather than a statement about the product, and it does not affect what is in the can.

What does bergamot taste like?

It is a citrus, but not an obvious one. Drier and more perfumed than an orange, less directly sour than a lemon, with a slightly bitter edge underneath the top note. The aroma is the part most people identify first, and the usual reference point is Earl Grey tea, which is scented with it. Whether you like that character is personal and we cannot answer it for you.

How many cans do I get for £39.90?

Our data does not carry a can count for this listing — the field is empty and we are not going to work backwards from the price to a number. Check the listing page and the product image before you order. If it is still unclear, ask us rather than assuming, because assumptions about pack size are the single most common cause of a disappointed order.

Is 10.4mg a lot?

It is a declared figure, and we have shelved it in our medium band, which is a filing decision about the number rather than a description of what it will be like. We are not able to tell you whether a particular figure is a lot for you — that would be advice, and we do not give it. The figure is printed on the can and we reproduce it exactly as the manufacturer gives it.

How long should I keep a pouch in?

We do not publish a time and we would be inventing one if we did. In practice the range across people is very wide — some minutes, some the better part of an hour — and the usual reason for taking one out is that the flavour has faded. Any usage guidance the manufacturer prints on the can is the guidance to follow.

Can I keep one in while eating or drinking?

Physically, yes, and people do. Whether it is pleasant is a matter of taste — a perfumed citrus sitting behind a meal is not to everyone's liking, and plenty of people take a pouch out before eating for that reason alone. There is no rule about it either way and nothing here is guidance.

Where is this can made?

We do not hold that information and we are not going to state a country of origin we cannot verify. The can itself carries the manufacturer's details, which is the reliable place to read them. The same applies to factory, company history and anything similar — if it is not in the facts we hold, it does not go on this page.

Is there a stronger or weaker version of Bergamot?

Not in our data. This listing has one variant only, at 10.4mg. Other declared figures exist across the site but on other products, which you can reach through the strength shelves. There is no second Bergamot can here at a different figure.

When will it be back in stock?

We do not know, and we would rather say that than post a date we cannot keep. Our records currently show it as unavailable. Checking the 77 brand page periodically is the practical approach, and any stock notification option shown on the listing is the mechanism we would point you at.

Do the pouches leak or stain?

That is a question about the physical pouch and we do not hold specifications for this product, so we cannot answer it as a property of this can. What we can say generally is that a pouch is a sealed packet and is meant to stay intact in the mouth, and that the catch compartment in the lid exists so a used one has somewhere to go. Anything more specific belongs to the manufacturer.

Can I buy this as a gift for someone?

Only for an adult of 18 or over who already uses nicotine, and the age check at delivery applies to whoever receives the parcel. We will not knowingly supply anyone under 18 or anyone buying on behalf of someone under 18. Beyond that, we have no view on it and no advice to give.

The legal part, in full

This product is sold to adults aged 18 or over only, and only to people who already use nicotine. Age verification applies when you order, and ID may be requested on delivery — if it cannot be produced, the parcel may not be handed over.

Nicotine is an addictive substance. That is stated here plainly because it is the single most important fact about what is in the can, and it applies to this product exactly as it applies to every other nicotine product on this site.

This is not a licensed stop-smoking medicine and is not presented as one. It is not intended for non-smokers, for anyone who does not already use nicotine, for under-18s, or for anyone who is pregnant or breastfeeding. We make no health, medical or therapeutic claim of any kind about this product, in any direction, and nothing anywhere on this page should be read as one.

Keep it away from children and from pets. If you have any medical question about nicotine use, a qualified professional is the person to ask — it is not something a shop can answer, and we will not try.

To close

77 VB Edition Bergamot is a single-strength can at 10.4mg, listed at £39.90, shelved in our medium band, carrying a perfumed citrus flavour name and, in our data, no flavour tag at all. It is currently out of stock, which we have said plainly rather than buried. If you came here for the flavour, the honest position is that we cannot offer you a like-for-like alternative on our shelves, only the same brand at the same price through the wider 77 listing or a different character entirely from the cans set out above.