XQS Arctic Freeze Nicotine Pouches

XQS Arctic Freeze: what is on this listing

The word Freeze in the name is a flavour name. It describes where the taste sits — the cold end of the mint family, the way a drinks menu calls something an iced tea — and it is not a statement about what the product does to anyone. The same goes for the rest of the range names you will meet further down this page. We are describing taste and aroma, and nothing beyond that.

It is also worth being clear about what this page will not attempt, because that shapes every paragraph. We do not print ingredient lists. We do not explain what goes on inside a pouch. We make no statement about anybody's wellbeing in any direction, favourable or otherwise. Where a sensible question has an answer we do not hold, we say we do not hold it rather than filling the gap with something that sounds authoritative. This is an adult nicotine product, listed for people aged 18 or over who already use nicotine, and the full wording on that sits in its own section at the foot of the page.

The tin, and the pouch inside it

The can is a shallow round tin, the standard format for this whole category, with a lid that lifts clear of the body and presses back down onto it. The face of the lid carries the XQS name, the Arctic Freeze flavour name and the milligram figure. That last detail matters more than it sounds: once three or four different cans are living in the same drawer or the same coat pocket, you read the tops of them rather than picking each one up and turning it over, and a clearly printed figure on the lid is the difference between grabbing the right tin and grabbing the wrong one.

Our record holds a single product image for this listing, so what you see on the shop page is one photograph of the can rather than a gallery. We mention it because people occasionally ask whether there is another angle to look at, and the honest answer is that there is not one in our system.

Lift the lid and the pouches sit in a ring, flat and even. A pouch is a small soft rectangle with rounded corners, white, dry to the touch rather than damp, and light enough to vanish in a closed hand. The underside of the lid is not solid: it is a shallow hollow with a lip around it, and that hollow is the catch compartment. It exists so that a used pouch has somewhere to go when there is no bin within reach, and it will take several before it needs emptying.

We do not hold a figure for how many pouches are in the tin. Our record has nothing in the field for cans per pack either, so we cannot tell you whether the £39.90 buys one tin or a sleeve of them, and we are not going to guess at it. The number printed on the packaging is the number. The same applies to the weight of an individual pouch and the outside dimensions of the can: if it is stamped on the product and absent from our data, the product is where to read it.

In practice a pouch goes under the upper lip and stays where it is put. The common first impression is that it feels slightly bulkier than it looked in the tin, and that this impression settles within a minute or two as the pouch takes the shape of the space it is in. After that most people stop noticing it is there. People talk with one in without any difficulty. Some drink with one in, some take it out first, and some eat with one seated and others will not — those are preferences rather than rules, and we are not going to dress them up as rules.

How long a pouch stays in has no single answer. The honest range is wide: some people take one out after ten minutes, others leave one in for the better part of an hour, and the same person will vary across a day without thinking about it. The taste is not level across that time. It arrives quickly, holds for a stretch, and then thins out until what remains is more of a background note than a flavour. A good number of people treat the fading of the taste as the cue to change the pouch, not because there is a rule about it but because a pouch with no taste left in it is not doing the thing it was picked up for.

Taking one out is a matter of hooking it with a fingertip. Used pouches go in the lid well and, once that is full, into general waste. Not down a sink, not into a plant pot, not out of a car window. They are small, white and easy to lose track of, which is exactly why a household with children or animals in it should be keeping the tin shut and well out of reach rather than leaving spent pouches on a desk or a car console.

Arctic Freeze as a taste

The single flavour tag on our record is mint, and for once the tag and the name are in complete agreement — there is no discrepancy to explain here. Arctic Freeze is a mint can, and the qualifier in front of it is pointing at which part of the mint family it belongs to.

Mint is not one flavour. At one end there is the sweet, rounded, almost confectionery mint of a soft after-dinner sweet. At the other end there is a bare, cold, high mint with very little sugar to it, closer to the last inch of a peppermint than to anything you would call a dessert. Arctic Freeze sits firmly at that second end. The taste is clean and uncluttered, with the cold register of the mint out at the front and very little sweetness dressing it up. There is no fruit sitting behind it and no vanilla softening the edges, which is what makes it a plain mint rather than a flavoured one.

The aroma from an open tin is consistent with that. It reads high and sharp rather than sugary, more like crushed mint leaf than mint sweets, and it is noticeable enough that people who keep a can in a bag tend to notice it when the bag is opened. Across the time a pouch is in, the taste narrows rather than changing character. The cold mint register is the first thing there and the last thing to go, and what fades earliest is whatever small amount of sweetness was carrying it.

Two caveats, both of them worth stating. The first is that this is a description written by people who stock the can, not a specification, and taste is subjective — yours may land differently from the account above. The second is that Freeze, again, is a name for where the taste sits on the mint spectrum. It is not a claim about a physical sensation the product produces, and we are not making one.

If plain cold mint is the thing you are after, this can sits among a very large group on our site. The mint shelf is the biggest flavour grouping we run, with 148 listings filed under it, and it holds everything from soft spearmints to the coldest peppermints in the catalogue. Arctic Freeze is on the cold side of the middle of that spread.

11.2mg, read as a number on a lid

The listing declares one strength: 11.2mg. There is no second variant, no lighter version and no heavier one under this name in our records, so 11.2mg is the whole of the choice on this particular product.

What that figure is, in the most literal sense, is the number the manufacturer prints on the can. It is a label figure. We publish it because it comes from the product record and because it is the number people use to tell two otherwise identical cans apart on a shelf. We are not going to explain what it means inside a pouch, because that strays into territory this page does not go into.

Where it puts this can on our site is a matter of simple filing. We sort the catalogue into strength bands, and 11.2mg lands this one on the medium strength shelf, which is the largest of those bands with 135 listings on it. Above that band we run a strong shelf and, above that again, an extra strong grouping. Those bands are how the shop is organised. They are not a ladder and they are not a ranking.

That last point deserves a sentence of its own, plainly put: a higher milligram figure is not a better can, and we are not suggesting anyone move up or down the bands. We cannot advise which strength suits you. That is not modesty or a legal formula — it is that the question depends entirely on the individual person, we do not know you, and nobody selling cans over the internet is in a position to answer it. What we can do is print the figure accurately and tell you which shelf it puts the can on, which is what the two paragraphs above are for.

One genuinely useful comparison, since it is a fact rather than a judgement: everything else on the XQS shelf that we stock sits in the same general part of the range, which means moving between XQS flavours does not involve moving between strength bands. That is a fact about how the brand's line-up is laid out on our site, nothing more.

The XQS range as we stock it, can by can

We hold fourteen XQS listings in total, and the ones most likely to matter to anyone reading this page are the six sibling flavours sitting alongside Arctic Freeze at the same £39.90. The brand's approach to a range is unusually legible: the tin is the same, the format is the same, the price we list is the same across the six, and the only variable that genuinely changes from can to can is the flavour. That makes it an easy range to move around in, because nothing about the object changes when you switch.

Below is how those siblings differ from each other in taste, and what each one is likely to appeal to. "Suits" here means nothing more than which flavours a person tends to like. It is not a comment about strength and it is not a comment about anybody's circumstances.

Staying in mint territory

The closest relative to Arctic Freeze in the range is XQS Blueberry Mint, also £39.90 and in stock as this is written. It keeps the cold mint register that Arctic Freeze is built on and lays a dark, jammy blueberry note over the top of it. If what you like here is the mint but you find a plain mint monotonous over a long day, that is the obvious can to put beside this one — it changes the flavour without changing the family.

XQS Citrus Cooling, at the same £39.90 and currently available, is the other half-step. It takes the cold end of the range and puts a sharp citrus note in front of it rather than a berry one. Citrus and cold mint work together for the same reason lemon works in cold water: the acidity and the coolness read as parts of the same idea rather than two competing flavours. For someone who likes this can specifically because it is clean and not sweet, Citrus Cooling is usually the more comfortable of those two directions.

Leaving mint behind entirely

Three of the siblings drop the mint and go properly into fruit and confectionery territory. XQS Black Cherry at £39.90 is the deepest and darkest of them: a full, slightly syrupy cherry, the tinned-and-dark sort rather than a bright fresh one, with no cold layer sitting underneath. The word Black in that name is a line and flavour descriptor — the dark cherry as opposed to the pale one — and nothing to do with where anything comes from.

XQS Fizzy Peach, also £39.90 and in stock, is the sweetest in the group by a clear margin. It is built to read like a sweet-shop peach rather than a piece of fruit, and the fizzy part of the name is pointing at the slight tang that goes with that style. It is about as far from Arctic Freeze as the range goes, which is precisely why some people keep the two together and alternate.

XQS Berrynana Twist at £39.90 is the oddest of the six and the most divisive. It is a berry and banana combination — the Twist in the name refers to that pairing of two flavours rather than to anything happening in the mouth — and banana is a note people either take to immediately or do not take to at all. Nobody should buy it expecting a version of this can.

Last, XQS Cola Lime, again £39.90 and available, is the soft-drink entry: the dark, spiced cola note with a lime edge cut into it. The lime gives it a sharpness that makes it a more reasonable partner for a cold mint can than the peach or the banana would be, because both cans have something acidic in them.

The short version of the range

If you like this can for the cold mint, Blueberry Mint and Citrus Cooling are the natural neighbours. If you like it and simply want something entirely different in the other pocket, Fizzy Peach and Black Cherry are the far end. Cola Lime sits in the middle. Berrynana Twist is a gamble either way. The full fourteen-listing XQS brand page is where the rest of the line-up lives, and it is worth a look purely because the consistency of the tin across the range is the brand's most useful feature.

Buying rhythm: one can, a roll, and the spare in the drawer

The second thing worth spending real space on is not the product at all — it is how people actually buy it. This comes up constantly, and the honest version of the answer involves admitting something about our own data.

The pack-size problem, stated plainly

Our record for this listing has nothing in the cans-per-pack field. It is empty. That means we cannot tell you from this page whether £39.90 is the price of a single tin or the price of a multi-can roll, and we are not going to infer it from the number. This matters more than it might seem, because it is the reason you cannot line our prices up against each other and draw a conclusion.

Look at what the catalogue actually contains. This can is £39.90. Velo Bright Spearmint is listed at £4.19 and Nordic Spirit Frosty Berry at £4.49, both in stock. That is not a ninefold difference in quality or in anything else — it is almost certainly the difference between a single-can listing and a multi-can listing, and since our pack-size field is blank we will not pretend to know which is which. The practical instruction is simple: read the quantity on the product page and on the packaging before you compare two prices, because the price alone tells you very little.

How people actually reorder

The pattern we see described most often runs roughly like this. Somebody buys one can of something, finds they get on with the flavour, and buys the larger quantity of that same flavour the next time round. After that the reordering settles into a rhythm dictated by how quickly the tin empties, which varies so much between individuals that any number we printed would be misleading.

The second pattern is the rotation. Rather than running one flavour continuously, a lot of people keep two or three cans going and move between them. The reason is not complicated: any flavour you have a great deal of becomes less distinct the more of it you have, and a second can with a different character resets that. A cold mint like this one and something dark and sweet like Fumi Dark Spice — listed at £27.90 and in stock — is about as clean a contrast as the catalogue offers.

The spare

The third habit worth mentioning is keeping a spare tin that is not in rotation. The logic is about delivery timing rather than anything else: an order takes a few days, tins run out without much warning, and people who have been caught out once tend to keep one unopened can in a drawer from then on. If you do that, the storage notes further down this page apply to the spare more than to the can in use, because an unopened tin sitting in a warm place for weeks is the scenario where storage actually makes a difference.

Ordering more than one flavour at a time

Where people are buying several cans in one go, the common approach is to order the flavour they know alongside one they do not, so that a flavour that turns out to be wrong for them is a small proportion of the order rather than the whole of it. Given that the XQS siblings are all listed at the same £39.90, that is an easy thing to arrange within the brand — one Arctic Freeze, one Black Cherry to try, and the rest of the order made up of whatever is already known to work.

Cans from other brands that sit near this one

Moving outside XQS widens the field considerably, and since the mint shelf is the largest one we run there is plenty to compare against. Everything listed in this section is marked in stock at the time of writing.

The nearest thing in the catalogue by name and by intent is Klint Arctic Mint at £36.90. It occupies the same cold-mint idea from a different brand, at a slightly lower listed price, and it is the first can most people reach for when they want to compare like with like. Also squarely in the cold camp is White Fox Double Mint at £34.90, which layers two mint characters rather than one and reads a little broader in the mouth as a result.

For a softer, greener mint rather than a cold one, SYX Cool Mint at £29.90 is the gentler option, and Edge Spearmint at £14.95 goes further in that direction again — spearmint is the rounder, sweeter side of the mint family and reads as a different flavour rather than a lighter version of the same one. The Velo spearmint listing covered above belongs in that same soft group.

If the mint is being kept but some fruit is wanted with it, 77 Apple Mint at £39.90 puts a crisp green apple in front of the mint, and the Nordic Spirit frosty berry can does the berry version of the same trick. Pablo Silver Edition Blueberry Peach Ice at £39.90 stacks two fruits over a cold base and is the busiest of that group by some way; the wider Pablo brand shelf is worth browsing if that style appeals.

Finally, for a complete change of direction, UBBS Cola Ice at £19.95 is the cola-and-cold combination at a much lower listed price than the XQS equivalent, and the Cuba shelf collects a set of darker, less obviously cold flavours for anyone who wants to leave the mint family altogether.

Keeping a can in reasonable condition

Storage is straightforward and mostly a matter of not doing the obvious wrong things. Keep the tin closed when it is not in use. The lid is designed to press back on properly and it should be pressed back on properly, because a can left ajar in a bag dries out and collects whatever else is in the bag.

Keep it somewhere cool and out of direct sunlight. The specific thing to avoid is a car on a hot day — a dashboard or a glovebox in summer gets far warmer than most people expect, and heat is the condition most likely to change how a pouch behaves and how the flavour reads. A drawer, a cupboard or the inside pocket of a bag are all fine.

Some people keep unopened tins in a fridge. Our record does not carry a manufacturer storage instruction for this product, so we are not going to endorse or discourage that practice; what we can say is that the packaging is the place any official instruction would appear, and it should be read in preference to anything on this page.

Keep cans out of reach of children and animals, both in use and in storage. This is the one storage point that is not about product condition, and it is the one that matters most. The catch well in the lid helps here too, since it means used pouches end up back inside a closed tin rather than loose on a surface.

Choosing between what is actually on offer here

On this particular listing there is very little to choose between, and it is worth being clear about that rather than manufacturing a decision. There is one strength, 11.2mg, and one listed price, £39.90. There is no variant selector to work through.

The choices that genuinely exist are therefore: which flavour, and how much of it to order. On flavour, the sections above are the whole of our contribution. On quantity, the honest advice is to read the pack size on the listing and the packaging, because our own cans-per-pack field is empty for this product and a price comparison made without that number is not worth much.

On strength, as said above and worth repeating: we cannot tell you which strength is appropriate for you, we will not recommend one, and the bands on our site — medium, strong, extra strong — are shelving labels rather than a scale anyone should be working along. Browse everything we stock by whatever criterion suits you, but do not read our shelf structure as a suggestion.

Ordering, delivery and the age check

Orders go through the site in the ordinary way. The price shown on the listing is the price we hold in our record, £39.90 for this can, and prices can change; the listing is always the current figure and this description is not.

Age verification applies to this order. This is an age-restricted product and it is sold only to people aged 18 or over. Verification may happen when the order is placed and photographic ID may be requested by the courier on delivery. Whoever is going to take the parcel in should be able to produce ID, because a courier who cannot verify age is not going to hand the parcel over — that is a normal outcome for this category, not an unusual one.

If a can arrives damaged or the order is wrong, contact us rather than the manufacturer. Stock status is shown on each listing and changes without notice; a can marked available today may be unavailable next week, and the listing is always more current than any paragraph written here.

Finding your way around from here

There are three obvious routes out of this page. By strength, this can sits on the 135 listings filed under medium, with the stronger bands above it. By brand, the fourteen XQS listings hold the siblings discussed above. By flavour, the 148-listing mint grouping is the widest net to cast if the cold mint character is the reason you are here.

If none of those are the right cut, the full catalogue is browsable by any of those attributes at once, and the brand shelves — Pablo and Cuba among them — are the quickest way to look at a manufacturer's whole approach rather than a single can.

Questions we are actually asked

Why does the web address say "artic"?

Because that is how the listing was first created, and the address has been left as it is on purpose. Changing a URL breaks every bookmark and every existing link pointing at it, which is a worse outcome than an odd-looking address. The product is spelled Arctic Freeze on the can and at the top of this page; only the address carries the older spelling.

How many pouches are in the can?

We do not hold that figure. Our record has a count field for it and the field is empty for this product, so any number we printed would be invented. The count is stated on the packaging, and that is the number to go by.

Is £39.90 for one tin or several?

We cannot tell you from our data, for the same reason as the question above: the cans-per-pack field on this listing is blank. The quantity is shown at the point of purchase and on the packaging. This is exactly why comparing our listed prices against each other is unreliable — a £4.19 listing and a £39.90 listing may well be different quantities of a comparable thing.

Is there a lighter or heavier version of Arctic Freeze?

Not in our records. This listing carries a single declared strength of 11.2mg and one price, so there is no variant to choose between. Other brands on the site do list multiple strengths under one flavour name, but this is not one of them.

Which strength should I buy?

We cannot answer that and we will not try. We do not know you, and nobody should be picking a strength on the basis of a shop description. What we will do is print the figure on the listing accurately and tell you which shelf it sits on — in this case 11.2mg and the medium band. The choice past that is not ours to make.

What does "Freeze" mean on the tin?

It is a flavour name describing which end of the mint family the taste belongs to — the cold, clean, unsweetened end rather than the soft confectionery end. It is the manufacturer's own name for the flavour. It is not a claim about anything the product does.

Where is this product made?

We do not hold that information and we are not going to guess at it. Our product record carries name, brand, price, strength, stock status and flavour tags, and origin is not among them. Country of origin, where it is declared at all, would be on the packaging.

Does the mint flavour tag mean it is only mint?

In this case yes — mint is the only flavour tag we hold against the listing, and unlike some cans on the site there is no second tag pulling in a different direction. Where our tag and a product name disagree we say so on the page in question. Here they do not disagree.

How long does a pouch last?

There is no fixed answer, and anyone giving you one is guessing. The range people describe runs from roughly ten minutes to the better part of an hour, varying by person and by occasion. Most people change a pouch when the taste has thinned out to nothing, which is a practical cue rather than a rule.

Can I compare this to a can from a different brand at the same milligram figure?

Only as numbers on two labels. Two cans printing the same figure are printing the same figure, and we can tell you they sit on the same shelf on our site. We are not going to extend that into a claim about how two products compare in use, because that would be a statement we are in no position to make.

Is the can currently available?

It is marked in stock as this description is written, as are all the sibling and comparison cans linked from this page. Stock moves constantly, though, so the listing itself is the authority. If a page shows as unavailable, that is the current position regardless of what this text says.

Do you have customer reviews for this can?

We do not publish ratings or testimonials on our product pages, so there is nothing of that kind to point you at. Everything descriptive on this page comes from the product record or from a plain account of the format, and where neither of those covers a question we say so rather than filling the space.

Legal and age restrictions: please read

This product is for adults aged 18 or over who already use nicotine. We do not sell it to anyone under 18, and nothing on this page is addressed to anyone who does not already use nicotine.

Nicotine is an addictive substance.

This product is not a licensed stop-smoking medicine and is not offered, described or intended 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. If you have any question about your own use of nicotine, that is a conversation for a qualified healthcare professional and not for a product page.

Age verification applies to this purchase. Photographic ID may be requested when the order is placed and may be requested again by the courier on delivery. Keep this product, and used pouches, out of the reach of children and animals.

In short

XQS Arctic Freeze is a plain cold mint can, listed at £39.90 with one declared strength of 11.2mg, in stock as this is written, and filed on our site under medium strength, the XQS brand shelf and the mint flavour grouping. The tin is the standard round format with a catch well in the lid. Its closest relatives in the brand's own range are Blueberry Mint and Citrus Cooling; its furthest are Fizzy Peach and Berrynana Twist.

What we cannot tell you is how many pouches are in the can, what the pack quantity behind the price is, where it is made, or which strength is right for you. Those four gaps are real, and we would rather leave them open than fill them with something we made up.