SYX Icy Cola Nicotine Pouches

A cola-named can, filed in two flavour families

It is in stock as this is written, in both declared strengths. As always, the live status on the page while you are reading it outranks anything a description written months earlier can tell you. One product image accompanies the listing, showing the lid and nothing more — it will not tell you the pouch format, the portion count or how the contents sit under the cap.

Icy Cola as a flavour name, and why our tags say mint

Take the name apart, because both halves of it are doing work.

Cola is the easier half. It is one of the most recognisable flavours there is, and recognisable for a specific structural reason: it is not a single note but a compound one. A cola flavour reads sweet at the front, carries something aromatic and faintly spiced through the middle, and finishes drier and a little bitter than it started. That closing bitterness is what makes cola taste like cola rather than like generic sweetness, and it is the part most imitations get wrong. Cola is also, unusually for a flavour, something almost everyone has a fixed reference point for, which cuts both ways — you will know within seconds whether a cola flavour matches the one in your head.

Icy is the half that needs care, and we are going to be precise about it because precision matters here. "Icy" in this name is part of a flavour description. It signals a cool register within the flavour, in the same way that a cola served over ice tastes different from the same cola at room temperature — sharper at the top, cleaner through the middle, with the sweetness reading as less heavy. That is a statement about taste and about how a flavour sits in the mouth. It is not a claim that this product does something to you, produces a sensation, or delivers any effect whatsoever, and nothing on this page should be read that way. The word is on the lid because it describes the flavour direction, and that is the whole of what we are saying about it.

Which brings us to the tags. Our catalogue holds two flavour tags for this product: mint and cola. The cola tag is self-explanatory. The mint tag on a can with no mint in its name is the kind of thing worth flagging rather than glossing over, and our honest reading is that it is there because of the "Icy" — our tagging groups cool-register flavours under mint whether or not a mint is named, which is why this can lands on a shelf of 148 products alongside things called peppermint and spearmint. That is our reading of our own filing, not a statement from the maker, and we cannot tell you whether there is any mint character in the flavour itself. The name says cola. The tags say cool. Between those two facts, the name is the more specific, and the tag is the reason the can turns up in mint searches.

On aroma we hold nothing for this product, so there is nothing to report. We are not going to describe the smell of a can we have no notes on.

12mg and 20mg: two numbers, one price

The two declared figures for this line are 12mg and 20mg. Both are what the manufacturer declares, both are listed at £29.90, and we reproduce them because they are facts about the can and you should see them before buying rather than after.

We will not rank them, and we will not advise you. A 20mg can is not a better can than a 12mg can, and a 12mg can is not a compromise. They are two different declared figures, and which of them is appropriate for any individual is not a question a shop can answer — we do not know you, we cannot know you, and there is no responsible version of a sentence in which a retailer picks a number for a stranger. If you want guidance on that, it is a matter for you and, if you want one involved, a healthcare professional. It is not a matter for a product description written for everybody at once.

Because both variants cost £29.90, there is not even an economic tiebreaker here. On listings where a higher figure costs more, people sometimes let price decide. On this one it cannot, so the choice rests entirely on the declared number, and we have nothing further to add to it than the two numbers themselves.

What is worth explaining is how the figures relate to the shelf. Our strength shelves are bands, and a band covers a range rather than a value. This line declares two figures spanning eight milligrams between them, and it is that whole span the catalogue sorts, which is why the can sits on the Strong shelf rather than in the band below. A product declaring a single figure and a product declaring three can sit side by side on the same shelf perfectly logically, because the shelf describes where a range falls. Medium Strength below and Extra Strong above work the same way. They are a means of shortening a long catalogue, not a ladder anyone is invited to climb, and we would rather you read the shelf as a filter than as a score.

The format, and what using one involves

Mechanically this is about as simple as a product gets. Open the can, take a pouch, tuck it under the lip. It stays where you put it. Nothing needs charging, filling, cleaning, lighting or assembling, and there is no consumable beyond the pouch. When you have finished, it comes out and goes in a bin.

On portion count we have a gap and we would rather name it than fill it. We know this listing is a ten-can pack, because that is on the page. We do not hold the number of pouches per can for this product. Counts vary between makers, and sometimes between formats from the same maker, so a confident-sounding guess would be actively unhelpful. The figure is printed on the can. On a ten-can purchase it is arguably the most decisive fact in the whole transaction, so treat the label as the source and this page as silent.

The same gap applies to the pouch itself. Slim, mini and regular formats all exist across the wider category, and our records do not say which one is in this can. We are not going to pick the most flattering option and print it.

How long a pouch stays in is personal habit, and it varies widely between people using the same product. We are not printing a duration — any figure would be invented, and in any case how long you keep one in is not something a shop should be instructing you about. The same applies to how many you get through: your business, and nothing we could responsibly comment on.

Disposal is the part people most often get wrong, so it gets a firm sentence. A used pouch goes in general waste. Not down a sink, not down a lavatory, where it will not break down. Not left loose in a car door, a coat pocket or a bedside drawer where a child or an animal could find it. If the can you receive has a compartment in the lid, that is a sensible place to park a used pouch until you reach a bin, but it is storage rather than disposal and emptying it is on you.

The tasting note: where a cola flavour sits on four axes

This section works through the four axes that actually separate flavours in this format — cool, sweet, sharp and bitter — and says where a cola-named, cool-named can should be expected to land on each. One caveat before it starts, and it is not a small one: we do not run a tasting panel, and our records contain no sensory notes for this product. What follows is how cola flavours generally behave and what the words on this lid conventionally signal. It is reasoning from a name, clearly labelled as such, rather than a description of a can we have assessed.

Sweet. Cola is a sweet-reading flavour and always has been. That is the axis it sits highest on, and it is the reason cola tends to appeal to people who find mints austere. Where cola differs from a fruit flavour is that the sweetness is not fruit sweetness — there is no single identifiable fruit behind it — so it reads as rounder and more confected. The word "Icy" alongside it conventionally means the sweetness has been pulled back a little rather than laid on thicker, on the same principle that a chilled drink tastes less syrupy than a warm one.

Bitter. This is the axis that makes cola cola, and it is the one people rarely think about until it is missing. A cola flavour finishes drier and faintly bitter, and that closing note is what stops the sweetness cloying. It is a subtle, aromatic bitterness rather than a harsh one — closer to the finish of a strong tea than to anything medicinal. Almost nothing else on our flavour shelves is built this way. Fruit flavours generally do not do it, and mints substitute a dry, clean finish that is a different thing entirely.

Sharp. Cola carries a bright, citrus-adjacent top note that arrives before the sweetness properly registers. It is what gives the flavour its lift. On the sharp axis cola sits in the middle — considerably sharper than a berry or a cream flavour, nowhere near as sharp as a citrus or a sour-named line. A name including "Icy" usually implies that top note has been emphasised rather than softened.

Cool. This is where the name points hardest, and where our mint tag comes from. A cool-reading flavour is one that presents as clean and slightly penetrating rather than warm and rounded. It is a flavour direction, describable in the same vocabulary you would use for a drink taken cold rather than at room temperature. It is not a physical effect and we are not describing one.

Put those four together and you get the shape of what the name promises: sweet but not heavy, with a bright opening, a drying and faintly bitter close, and the whole thing pitched cool rather than warm. Whether this can delivers that shape is between you and the can. Our neighbours' names make an instructive contrast, incidentally — Fumi Fiery Mint at £27.90 pairs a mint with a warm descriptor, which is the opposite construction to this one, and the Killa banana line at £33.50 puts a soft, creamy fruit where this can puts a spiced, bittering one. Both are in stock as this is written and both sit near this can in our neighbour list.

Where this can falls in the SYX range, and what each line is aimed at

Nine SYX products sit on our shelves and this is one of them. The range has an unusual property that makes it easy to navigate: every SYX line in this can's list of brandmates is priced at exactly £29.90, and both declared strengths of this can are £29.90 too. Price therefore plays no part in choosing within the brand, which is genuinely rare on our shelves and removes the most common source of second-guessing.

By name, the range falls into three groups, and this can is the only member of the third. There is fruit: SYX Blueberry, named for something dark and rounded, and SYX Apple Kiwi, named for something green and orchard-sharp. There is the mint contingent, four cans deep, which is where most of the range's weight sits: SYX Peppermint and SYX Spearmint name actual plants, while SYX Cool Mint and SYX Freeze name a direction without naming a leaf. And then there is this can, the only line in the range that is not a fruit or a mint at all.

On what each is aimed at, we will answer in the only currency we honestly hold, which is flavour preference. If you want something sweet with a bittering finish and no botanical reference point, this cola line is the only one in the SYX range that does it. If you want a named mint, the range gives you two, and the names are the distinction. If you want the cool end of mint without a species attached, Cool Mint and SYX Freeze are aimed there. If you want fruit, there are two, pointing in opposite directions — dark berry against green orchard. That is the whole map, and all six brandmates are in stock at the time of writing.

What we are not going to do is reproduce the declared strengths of the other eight SYX lines here. Each states its own figures on its own listing, and summarising eight labels second-hand from one page is how a description ends up misleading somebody. This can declares 12mg and 20mg. For the others, the brand page gathers all nine in one view and each page speaks for itself.

Seventeen cans on a shelf: the cola grouping

The Cola shelf holds 17 products, and that number is worth dwelling on because it changes how you should browse. A 17-product shelf can be read in full in a couple of minutes. A 148-product shelf like Mint cannot, which is why filtering matters there and barely matters here. If cola is the flavour you are after, the sensible approach is to open the cola shelf and look at all of it rather than trust any single recommendation, including ours.

Within this can's own neighbourhood there is one other cola-named listing, and it needs a warning attached: 77 Ghost Mini Cola Ice at £39.90 is out of stock as this is written. It is the closest name-match to this can among the neighbours — a cola with a cool descriptor attached, exactly the same construction — and it is precisely the one you cannot currently buy. We are linking it anyway, because a product page is worth reading for orientation even when the basket button is unavailable and because stock returns, but you should arrive there knowing rather than find out at the checkout.

Beyond that, this can's neighbour list is dominated by cool-register mints rather than colas, which follows from the mint tag discussed above. Clew Cool Mint at £39.90, Denssi Cold Mint at £39.90, Klint Avalanche Mint at £36.90 and the Nordic Spirit frosty mint line at £4.49 all use a cool word in front of a mint. Cuba Ninja Ice Cool at £39.90 does it twice over. Elf Bar Cool Storm at £29.90 is the one neighbour priced identically to this can. Edge Mint at £14.95 is the plainest-named of the group and the cheapest of the mints in it. All of those are available as this is written; only the cola-named one is not.

What people keep alongside a cola can

A cola flavour is a distinctive thing to have on the go, and in our experience of the shelves it tends to be a second can rather than a sole one — the compound, sweet-and-bittering profile is not what everyone wants all day. So the useful question is what pairs with it.

The straightforward contrast is a mint, and the brand supplies four of them at the same £29.90, so switching within SYX costs nothing but the decision. The spearmint line is the softest and sweetest of the brand's named mints by the conventional meaning of the word; the peppermint line is the brisker of the two. Cool Mint and SYX Freeze are the two aimed at the cool end without naming a plant. If you would rather leave mint alone entirely, the brand's blueberry can and its apple-kiwi can are the two fruit directions available.

Outside the brand, the neighbours give you range across a wide price spread. Edge Mint at £14.95 and the Nordic Spirit frosty mint at £4.49 are the low-cost entries; Clew Cool Mint, Denssi Cold Mint and Cuba Ninja Ice Cool at £39.90 each are the dearest. We are not going to tell you which represents better value, because we do not publish on this page what those listings contain and quantity is precisely what would settle it. Read each listing for what it holds before comparing its number to the £29.90 on this page.

If variety rather than contrast is the aim, Fumi Fiery Mint at £27.90 is the most interesting name in the group, pairing a mint with a warm descriptor rather than a cold one — the reverse of the construction on this lid. And 77 Ghost Mini Cola Ice remains the nearest thing to a like-for-like comparison, unavailable though it is today.

Keeping a can in good order

Storage asks little of you, and the failure modes are boring and preventable.

Keep cans closed, dry and out of direct heat. The three reliable can-killers are a sunny windowsill, a car dashboard in summer, and the shelf directly above a radiator. Heat and a lid left open push in the same direction: they dry the contents and flatten the flavour. Nothing alarming happens; the can simply becomes a worse version of what you paid for, which on a ten-can purchase is money quietly lost.

On refrigeration, we cannot give you a rule, and here is why. Our catalogue does not record whether the pouches in this can are a dry or a moist format, and that distinction is exactly what would decide the question properly. A cool, dry cupboard suits every version of this format well enough. If you do refrigerate, condensation is the thing to watch — a cold can brought into a warm room and opened immediately picks up moisture it did not have before.

With ten cans, the real question is the nine you are not using. Leave them sealed in the sleeve, cool and dark, and open them one at a time. There is no benefit in breaking the whole roll open at once and a clear cost in doing it. Keep the roll out of reach of children and pets, which in practice means high up and behind a door rather than on a kitchen counter. Nothing about the lid is childproof, and a small, brightly finished, pocket-sized object works against you there.

The date printed on the can is the authority on how long it keeps. We cannot publish dates here, because what we write is fixed and the can you receive carries its own, so check the base or the lid when the parcel arrives.

Deciding between the options on this page

The decision this listing asks of you is narrow. One pack size: ten cans. One price: £29.90. Two declared figures: 12mg and 20mg, priced identically. That is all.

With price neutral between the variants, the only variable is the declared number, and we have already said as plainly as we can that we cannot advise you on it and will not rank the two. Both are stocked as this is written. Both are the manufacturer's declarations. Neither is the better can.

On quantity we should be straight about a limitation. We do not list a smaller amount of this product — there is no single can, no partial pack, and no mixed-strength roll, so a ten-can pack is ten cans of one declared figure. If committing to ten cans of a distinctive flavour you have not tried is more than you want to risk, that is a reasonable position, and the honest answer is that this listing cannot accommodate it. Lower-priced listings exist among this can's neighbours and several are linked above, but they are different products from different makers, and buying one tells you about that product rather than about this one.

Getting around from here

Four shelves hold this can, which gives you four different onward routes. Cola is the narrowest at 17 products and the only one you can realistically read end to end. The mint shelf at 148 is where the cool tag lands this can, and it is too broad to be read in full — names will serve you better than tags there. Strong at 132 products is the route if the declared range is your filter. SYX is the route if the ten-cans-at-£29.90 structure suits how you buy.

Beyond those, the strength bands run below and above through the medium band and the Extra Strong shelf. If you prefer to browse by maker, Pablo and Cuba are two of our other brand collections, and the Cuba shelf is where the Ninja Ice Cool can linked above lives. The full catalogue is there for when scrolling beats filtering.

Ordering it, and the doorstep

Ordering is unremarkable: pick one of the two declared strengths, add it to the basket, check out. Stock status on the page at the moment you look is the reliable one.

Age verification is the part that is not like ordinary shopping. This is an 18+ product. Verification applies during the order, and ID may be requested on delivery. If nobody present can produce it, the courier is entitled to withhold the parcel — it will not be left in a porch or passed to a neighbour on the assumption that somebody else will do the checking. That is not us being difficult; it is how an age-restricted product has to be sold, and knowing it beforehand saves a wasted delivery slot.

Delivery costs, times and carriers are deliberately absent from this page. Those change, and a description fixed in print is the wrong place for them; the checkout shows what applies to your basket and address. Orders across several lines travel together in the usual way, so a roll of these and a can from somewhere else on the shelves arrive as one parcel.

Questions we are asked about this can

Why is a cola can tagged as mint?

Because our flavour tagging groups cool-register flavours under mint whether or not a mint is named, and the word "Icy" in the name puts this can in that group. That is our reading of our own filing rather than a statement from the maker, and it does not tell you there is mint character in the flavour. We hold two tags for this product, mint and cola, and we publish both as they stand rather than quietly dropping the awkward one.

What does "Icy" mean on the lid?

It is a flavour description. It signals a cool register within the cola — the difference between a cola taken cold and one at room temperature, which is a matter of how a flavour reads in the mouth. It is not a claim that the product produces a sensation or does anything to you, and we are not making one. Taste and mouthfeel are the whole of what the word describes here.

How many cans and pouches do I get for £29.90?

Ten cans, for £29.90, which is a little under £3.00 each. The pouch count per can is not a figure we hold for this product, so we will not state one — counts vary by maker and format, and the number is printed on the can itself. It is probably the most useful single fact about a ten-can order, so check the label when it arrives.

Should I take the 12mg or the 20mg?

We cannot advise you and we will not try. Both figures are the manufacturer's declarations, both variants are £29.90, and both are stocked as this is written. Which is appropriate for any individual is not something a retailer can determine, and a product page is the wrong place to look for that decision. The numbers are information about the can and nothing more.

Is 20mg stronger than what you sell elsewhere?

We are not going to build a league table out of declared figures. What we can say factually is that this line declares 12mg and 20mg and that our catalogue files it on the Strong shelf, which is a band describing where a declared range falls rather than a rank. Other listings declare their own figures on their own pages. Reading one number against another and drawing conclusions about suitability is exactly the reasoning we cannot help you with.

Do you have any other cola flavours?

Yes — the cola shelf holds 17 products, small enough to read from top to bottom in a couple of minutes, and that is the reliable way to see them all rather than relying on whatever a single product page happens to link. Within this can's immediate neighbour list there is exactly one other cola-named listing, 77 Ghost Mini Cola Ice at £39.90, and it is out of stock at the time of writing, so the shelf is the better route today. Sharing a flavour word does not make two products alike in taste, format, quantity or declared figures, and we have no basis for telling you how closely any two of them resemble each other in the mouth.

Where is it made?

We do not hold that information and we will not guess. Country of origin, manufacturing arrangements and company history are not in our catalogue, and inventing them produces exactly the kind of authoritative-sounding detail that is simply false. If origin matters to your decision, the packaging and the manufacturer's own materials are where to look.

Does the can have a compartment for used pouches?

We cannot confirm it for this can. Plenty of cans in this category have a two-part lid with a shallow catch space above the fresh pouches, but our records do not state whether SYX builds theirs that way and we are not going to claim it. You will find out in the first few seconds of handling one. If there is no compartment, decide where used pouches go before you are out somewhere without a bin.

Does it need refrigerating?

A cool, dry cupboard is sufficient for ordinary use. We do not record whether this is a dry or a moist format, which is what would properly settle the question, so we are not issuing a rule. Keep the lid shut, keep cans away from direct heat and sunlight, leave the nine you are not using sealed in the sleeve, and check the date on the can for how long it keeps.

Will the courier ask for ID?

They may. This is an 18+ product, verification applies when the order is placed, and ID may be requested on delivery. The parcel will not be left unattended or handed to someone who cannot verify their age. Having something to hand on the delivery day turns it into a brief exchange at the door instead of a failed delivery and a second attempt.

Is everything linked on this page available?

Almost. All six SYX brandmates are in stock as this is written, and nine of the ten neighbouring products are too. The exception is 77 Ghost Mini Cola Ice, which is unavailable, and we have flagged it each time it appears rather than sending you there unwarned. Stock moves daily, so the individual product pages remain the authority on what can actually be bought today.

Can I mix this with other lines in one order?

Yes. Every product is a separate listing, so a basket can hold this roll alongside the brand's spearmint can, a mint from another maker, or anything else we stock. There is no restriction on combining brands, flavours or price points, and nothing about this product requires it to ship on its own.

What we are obliged to state clearly

This page is written for adults in the United Kingdom who already use nicotine. The product is 18+ only and is sold only to adults who already use nicotine. Nothing here is addressed to anybody else or intended to encourage anybody to begin. Nicotine is an addictive substance.

It is not a licensed stop-smoking medicine, and it is not intended for non-smokers, for anyone who does not already use nicotine, for under-18s, or for anyone pregnant or breastfeeding. We make no health claim about it in either direction, and nothing above constitutes medical advice or a recommendation about strength, quantity or use.

Age verification applies when the order is placed and ID may be requested on delivery. Keep cans closed and out of reach of children and pets.

The short version

Ten cans at £29.90, declared at 12mg or 20mg for the same money, named for a flavour with a sweet front and a drying, faintly bitter finish, and carrying a cool descriptor that puts it on our mint shelf as well as our cola one. We have said where that mint tag comes from rather than pretending it is not odd, and we have said plainly that the "Icy" in the name describes a taste rather than an effect. Where our records are thin — pouch count, format, lid design, origin — the gap is left visible. The cola shelf is only 17 products deep, which makes it one of the few on this site worth reading from top to bottom.