Lemon Vapes

Where the lemon shelf starts and stops

Fifty-four of the 492 Hayati products we list have lemon somewhere in the recipe. That makes it a mid-sized family, well behind berry and well ahead of banana or kiwi, and it behaves unlike either because of one structural fact worth stating early: there is no plain lemon product in the range. Not one of the 54 is lemon by itself. Lemon always arrives with a partner, whether that partner is lime, a berry, a tropical fruit, mint, cola or the sugar-and-water base of a lemonade.

Sit with that for a moment, because it changes how the names should be read. On a strawberry shelf you can simply buy strawberry. Here the closest available thing to bare lemon is a lemon and lime pairing, and lime is not a neutral second. It brings peel bitterness and a green, slightly resinous quality that lemon does not carry. So when someone says they want just lemon, what they generally end up holding is Lemon Lime Hayati Pro Max Plus Pods or one of its eight siblings, which is the nearest thing rather than the thing.

The shelf is drawn by ingredient, not by hardware. A 10ml bottle of nicotine salt sits in the grid beside a prefilled kit with a battery in it, because both taste of lemon. That means four genuinely different purchases are mixed together above: sealed prefilled pods that need a device you already own, complete kits with the device supplied, small 10ml salt bottles for refillable pods, and 120ml bottles for people who fill their own tanks. Filtering by profile first and format second is the only way to make the grid behave.

Some things you might expect are absent, and their absence gives the shelf its character. There is no lemon dessert here at all: no tart, no meringue, no curd, no bakery build of any kind. Hayati's lemon flavours are drinks and fruit without exception, which is why the shelf as a whole reads cold and sharp rather than warm and rich. There is no lemon paired with aniseed or spice, nothing using cream or custard as a softener, and nothing that hides lemon as an unnamed background note. If a product sits on this shelf, lemon is in the title.

Two adjacent shelves overlap so heavily that they are better treated as separate destinations than as subsets of this one. Lemon Lime Vapes holds 21 of these 54 and is the place to go once you have settled on the two-citrus profile and only need to compare devices. Lemonade Vapes holds 16 and covers the drink-style builds, including a few that carry so little lemon they do not appear here at all. Both are narrower than this page, and both become more useful than it the moment your profile decision is made.

Why citrus behaves differently in a coil

This matters enough to set out properly before any product is named, because it explains most of the complaints people have about lemon vapes and almost none of the complaints they have about berry ones.

The aromatic compounds that carry lemon zest are light and volatile. They come off early in a draw and they clear fast, which is why a citrus puff is front-loaded: the brightness hits in the first moment, peaks, and is largely gone by the time you exhale. A berry profile does the opposite. Its body sits lower and slower, so it fills the middle of the puff and lingers on the finish. Put the two side by side and the lemon will always feel shorter, even when it is objectively louder at the start. People coming to this shelf from a berry rotation often describe the first few days as thin, and what they are noticing is the missing tail rather than a missing flavour.

The second consequence is about coil age. All prefilled pods pick up residue as they run, and the wick darkens. On a berry pod that mostly shows up as the flavour going quiet: you get less of the same thing, evenly, until it is time for a new pod. On a citrus pod it shows up as a change of character instead. The volatile top notes are the first casualties, so what survives is the sweetener and the heavier base underneath it. A tired lemon pod does not taste like a faint lemon pod. It tastes sweeter, rounder and duller, and a fair number of people read that as the pod having gone wrong when it is simply the normal end of a citrus pod's life. You will usually notice it in the last quarter of a 22ml pod and barely at all in a 4ml one.

Third, and most useful for choosing: lemon reads in at least two textures in this range. Some builds present as juice, meaning acid with weight behind it, closer to a squeezed wedge. Others present as sherbet, meaning a fizzing dry tang with very little body at all. Lemonade is a third thing again, and not a stronger lemon but a diluted one, with sugar and water carrying a citrus note rather than citrus carrying the sugar. Knowing which of those three textures you are after does more for your satisfaction than knowing which berry sits next to it.

One last piece of behaviour is worth flagging because it affects how these taste on different hardware. Acid perception rises with vapour temperature. The same lemon liquid run through a warmer, more powerful setup reads sharper and thinner; run cooler it reads rounder and juicier. That is why the identical recipe can feel like two different products on a 4ml pod and a 22ml one, and it is also why the high-VG bottles on this shelf hold up better than most fruit liquids do at sub-ohm power.

Six ways lemon shows up in this range

Fifty-four products sorted into six honest groups. A handful of products sit near the boundary of two groups and the lines are not sacred, but the groupings track how these actually taste rather than how they happen to be tagged.

Group one: two-citrus, nothing hiding it

The largest and most consistent group on the shelf. Lemon and lime, no berry, no gum, no cooling, across nine hardware formats. Lemon supplies the clear sour top, lime adds a greener, more perfumed sharpness and a trace of peel bitterness on the back end. Where the two overlap you get something close to sherbet, dry rather than juicy, and that sherbet quality is the single most recognisable thing about the profile.

The spread runs from £2.49 to £11.99 for what is, in flavour terms, one recipe. Lemon Lime Hayati Pro Max Nic Salt is the cheapest way in, a 10ml 10mg bottle for a refillable pod. Lemon Lime Hayati Mini Ultra Pods at £3.49 and Lemon Lime Hayati Rubik Pods at £3.99 are the small and mid prefilled options at 4ml and 12ml. The Pro Max Plus pod is £5.49 for 12ml, and Lemon Lime Hayati Pro Ultra Plus Pods are £7.99 for 22ml.

On the kit side, the Mini Ultra kit is £3.99, the Rubik kit is £5.99 and is rated by the manufacturer at up to 7,000 puffs, a laboratory estimate rather than a figure to plan around, the Pro Max Plus kit is £7.99, and the Pro Ultra Plus kit is £11.99. Nine ways to buy one flavour.

Honestly, the taste differences between them are small. Higher-capacity pods read very slightly warmer and fuller, which comes from coil geometry rather than any change to the recipe, and the Mini Ultra is the most obviously sherbet-like of the set because a small pod keeps its top notes intact from first puff to last. Pick this group on hardware and price, not on flavour, because the flavour is the same argument nine times over.

Group two: three-citrus, the softer option

Adding orange to lemon and lime changes things more than people expect. Orange is the sweet, juicy, low-acid member of the trio, and it fills the middle of the puff where a lemon and lime blend is hollow. The result is rounder, less sour, and easier to stay with for a whole day rather than a session. It is also less exciting, which is a fair trade rather than a criticism.

Three products carry it in pure form: Orange Lemon Lime Hayati Mini Ultra Pods at £3.49, Orange Lemon and Lime Pro Ultra Plus 25K Pods at £7.99, and a matching Pro Ultra Plus kit at £11.99. A fourth, the Cola Ice / Orange Lemon Lime Mini Ultra kit, carries the same blend on one of its two sides. Anyone who finds straight lemon and lime too aggressive by the third refill of the day should start here. The wider Orange Vapes shelf holds the rest of the orange-led range if the balance still is not right.

Group three: lemonade builds, a different construction

Sixteen products use lemonade rather than lemon, and the distinction is real rather than marketing. Lemonade is diluted citrus over a sugar base, so it reads sweeter, wetter and rounder, with the acid arriving as a sparkle rather than a bite. Anyone who has bought a lemonade vape expecting a louder version of a lemon one and found it flabby has met this directly. The base is doing more of the work than the fruit is.

The berry-forward lemonades are the sweetest things on the whole shelf. Blackcurrant Lemonade Mini Ultra Pods at £3.49 is the cheapest prefilled entry, dark jammy berry sitting over the fizz, and the same profile runs up through Pro Max Plus pods at £5.49, the Pro Max Plus 6000 kit at £7.99, Pro Ultra Plus 25K pods at £7.99 and a Pro Ultra Plus kit at £11.99. That is five ways to buy blackcurrant lemonade, the second most replicated flavour on the shelf after lemon and lime. Straw’ Lemonade swaps the blackcurrant for soft strawberry and is noticeably gentler for it.

Further along the sweetness axis, Blue Razz Lemonade and Berry Lemonade both put candied berry over the top, and both are honestly described as confectionery drinks rather than fruit ones. Blue Razz Lemonade also appears as a Pro Max Plus pod at £5.49 and a kit at £7.99 if the profile suits you.

The exception in this group is Pink Lemonade, which keeps the red fruit deliberately vague and quiet. It is the most drink-like of the lemonades and the closest thing here to tasting of actual lemonade rather than of a fruit blend with lemonade in the name. It exists as the 10ml salt, a Pro Max Plus pod and a Pro Max Plus kit. Browse the full lemonade shelf if this is the direction you are heading, since it covers several drink builds that do not carry enough lemon to qualify for this page.

Group four: lemon as the knife in a berry blend

Eleven products use lemon as a corrective rather than a headline. Berry blends tend to sit heavy on the tongue after an hour, and a squeeze of citrus lifts them by cutting the sugar without introducing a competing fruit. In this group the lemon is deliberately in the background. If you arrived on this page wanting citrus, these will disappoint you, and that is worth knowing before you spend £11.99 on a kit.

The clearest example is Blueberry Raspberry Lemon, where blueberry lays down the soft base, raspberry supplies the tang, and lemon arrives only at the end to stop the whole thing going syrupy. The same idea appears on the Pro Ultra Plus as both a 25K pod and a full kit. Cherry Peach Lemon Pro Max Plus Pods works the same way with darker fruit: cherry supplying weight, peach softening the middle, lemon doing the lifting at the back.

Two dual-flavour pods take the opposite approach and keep the citrus and the berry in separate chambers rather than blending them. Blue Razz GB / Lemon and Lime sets a gummy-sweet blue raspberry against a bare two-citrus blend, which is about as far apart as two sides of one pod can sit. Lemon Lime / Lemon Blueberry is subtler, since both halves share a lemon backbone and the blueberry side simply adds body. Anyone wanting more of this territory should look at the Berry Vapes shelf, or the narrower Blackcurrant Vapes one.

Group five: lemon against tropical and stone fruit

Here lemon is an equal partner rather than a garnish, and the pairing works because tropical fruit brings sweetness and body without bringing acid of its own, so the citrus keeps its job instead of competing for it. These are the sunniest-tasting products on the shelf and the ones that hold up best in warm weather, when heavier profiles start to feel like hard work.

Pineapple is the most common partner and appears under two different names, which is genuinely confusing until you read the word order. Pineapple Lemon Burst leads with the fruit and lets the lemon sharpen it; Lemon Pineapple Pro Max Plus Pods reverses the order and puts the citrus in front. The naming is doing real work in both cases, and the two do taste that way round. Lemon Peach Passionfruit is the most complex thing on the shelf, three fruits each occupying a different part of the puff, with the passionfruit tartness landing after the lemon has already cleared out.

Watermelon is the outlier. Watermelon Lemon Burst exists only as a 120ml bottle, in 70/30 and 50/50 versions, and watermelon is such a light, watery fruit that the lemon dominates considerably more than the name implies. Treat it as a citrus liquid with a soft background rather than as a watermelon one. The Pineapple Vapes shelf is the obvious next stop from this group.

Group six: cooled, minted and cola

The smallest group, six products, and the only one where something other than fruit changes the temperature of the exhale. It divides cleanly in two.

The mint side is lemon and mint, and it is not an ice build. Mint cools by aroma rather than by a dedicated cooling agent, so the effect is drier and far less numbing, and it suits citrus because both are high, light notes occupying the same part of the puff. Lemon Mint Hayati Pro Max Nic Salt is the 10ml version at £2.49, Lemon and Mint Pro Ultra Plus 25K Pods the prefilled refill at £7.99, and there is a matching Pro Ultra Plus kit at £11.99. Of everything on this shelf these three read the least sweet by a clear margin, and they are the ones to look at if the lemonades sound sickly.

The cola side is a genuinely different animal. Lemon Cola Ice Hayati Rubik Pods at £3.99 and the matching Rubik kit at £5.99 build sweet, faintly spiced cola first, cut it with a lemon slice, then finish cold. It is the only place on the shelf where lemon behaves as a garnish on a soft drink rather than as a fruit in its own right. The Mint Vapes, Cola Vapes and Ice Vapes shelves all carry more in this direction.

The decisions people actually get stuck on

Replacement pod, or the whole kit?

On the Pro Max Plus the kit costs £7.99 and the pod £5.49, so the device is effectively £2.50 the first time. On the Pro Ultra Plus it is £11.99 against £7.99, so £4.00. On the Mini Ultra the kit is £3.99 and the pod £3.49, a gap of fifty pence. Those numbers only look generous until you remember what they commit you to. Each device takes its own pod shape, so buying a kit is choosing a refill range, not just a flavour.

The sensible order is to settle on a profile you already know suits you, buy the kit in whichever range carries it, then treat the rest of that range as your refill menu. Buying a kit in a flavour you are merely curious about can leave you holding a device whose refills you do not want. The exception is the Mini Ultra, where the gap between pod and kit is small enough that the calculation barely matters and buying the kit twice is not much of a loss.

There is a second-order point here about flavour coverage. The Pro Ultra Plus carries 18 lemon products, the Pro Max Plus 14, the Mini Ultra seven and the Rubik four. If you expect to stay on the citrus shelf for a long time, the range with the most lemon options is worth more to you than fifty pence saved at the outset.

How much liquid do you actually want in one pod?

Capacity on this shelf runs 4ml on the Mini Ultra, 12ml on the Rubik and the Pro Max Plus, and 22ml on the Pro Ultra Plus. Bigger is cheaper per millilitre and it is also, for citrus specifically, more exposed to the ageing problem described further up this page. A single coil has to carry 22ml of a flavour whose top notes are the first thing to go, so the last few millilitres of a big lemon pod are noticeably rounder and sweeter than the first few were.

That is not an argument against the large pods, which are the best value here by some distance. It is an argument for matching pod size to how quickly you get through liquid. If a 22ml pod lasts you a fortnight, you will taste the drift. If it lasts four days, you probably will not. People who chop and change between flavours tend to be happier on 4ml pods for exactly this reason, and the price per pod is low enough to keep three or four different ones on the go at once.

Reading sweetness off the product name

Hayati's naming is more consistent than it first looks, and once the pattern is clear you can predict the sweetness of anything on this shelf without reading a description. Two fruit names with no qualifier means the fruits are the whole story and the sweetness is moderate. The word lemonade means a sugar base underneath and a jump up in sweetness. GB stands for gummy bear and signals confectionery, the sweetest thing available. Ice means a cooling agent on the finish. Burst means the second fruit is loud rather than supporting.

Word order matters as much as vocabulary. Lemon Pineapple leads with citrus and Pineapple Lemon Burst leads with pineapple. The same rule holds right across the shelf: the first fruit named is the one you meet first, and the last fruit named is usually the one doing the correcting.

Bottle or prefilled pod?

A 10ml nicotine salt at £2.49 is the cheapest liquid here by a wide margin, and it is the only way to sample seven of these profiles without committing to a device range. The catch is that you need a refillable pod device already, and none of the prefilled Hayati hardware on this shelf qualifies, because prefilled pods are sealed units.

If you do have a refillable pod, the Pro Max Nic Salts line is the obvious way to explore this shelf cheaply: seven lemon profiles, all 10mg, all 50/50, all 10ml. If you run a sub-ohm tank instead, only the two 70/30 bottles are relevant, and both are 0mg as supplied.

Dual-flavour pods

Several Pro Ultra Plus and Mini Ultra products hold two separate liquids in one housing with a selector between them. They cost the same as a single-flavour pod of the same capacity, so there is no premium to weigh up, and the only real question is whether the two sides differ enough to be worth having. Lemon and Lime / Summer Dream pairs sharp citrus with a mellow mixed-fruit blend, which is a genuine contrast. Blackcurrant Lemonade / Straw’ Lemonade pairs two lemonades, which is less of one, though the two berries sit far enough apart to justify the format.

Formats, devices and what fits what

Four prefilled systems appear on this shelf, plus two kinds of bottle. Nothing crosses over. Every pod is cut for one range and one range only, and that is the single most common source of wasted money on a shelf organised by flavour rather than by device.

Hayati Pro Ultra Plus 25000

The largest format here: a 22ml prefilled pod on an 850mAh rechargeable device, sold either as a pod on its own at £7.99 or as a complete kit at £11.99. Eighteen lemon products use it, the widest flavour choice of any format on this shelf, and all of the dual-flavour pods live here. Everything in the range is 20mg nicotine salt. The Pro Ultra Plus shelf lists the pods and kits together across every flavour we stock.

Hayati Pro Max Plus 6000

A 12ml pod on an 850mAh device. Pods are £5.49 and kits £7.99, with seven lemon flavours in each. This is the middle of the range in every sense: half the liquid of a Pro Ultra Plus pod for around two thirds of the price, on a device with the same battery capacity behind it. It is the format to pick when 22ml feels like too much of one flavour to commit to but 4ml means refilling constantly.

Hayati Mini Ultra

A 4ml pod, £3.49 on its own or £3.99 with the device included, which is the narrowest pod-to-kit gap on the shelf. The Mini Ultra range contributes seven lemon products and is the cheapest route into prefilled hardware. Small pods suit citrus better than any other flavour family, because a coil that only has to carry 4ml never gets far enough through its working life to lose the top of the flavour. Two of the three Mini Ultra kits on this shelf are dual-flavour.

Hayati Rubik

A 12ml pod system with four lemon products, £3.99 for pods and £5.99 for kits, making it the cheapest 12ml option available. Only two flavours exist in lemon on the Rubik, Lemon Lime and Lemon Cola Ice, so it is a narrow choice, but the price per millilitre is the lowest of the four prefilled formats and the kit price is hard to argue with.

Bottles

Two entirely different products sit under the same word. The 10ml nicotine salts are 10mg and 50/50, built to wick through the small high-resistance coils in refillable pod devices. Put one in a sub-ohm tank and it will be unpleasantly harsh. The 120ml shortfills are 0mg as supplied and come in two mixes: 70/30 for low-resistance mesh coils at direct-to-lung power, and 50/50 for mouth-to-lung tanks and refillable pods. Both kinds are listed together on the Hayati E-Liquids shelf.

One point specific to citrus and high-VG liquid. Thick 70/30 bases tend to mute bright flavours, which is why so many sub-ohm fruit liquids taste muddy at the exhale, but citrus survives it better than most because the acid cuts through vegetable glycerine rather than sitting beneath it. Lemon Lime 70/30 is one of the few Hayati profiles that arguably works better at higher power than at lower.

What the price spread pays for

From £2.49 to £11.99 is almost a fivefold spread, and it resolves into eight clear tiers rather than a smooth curve.

• £2.49, seven 10ml nicotine salt bottles at 10mg. Liquid only, no hardware.
• £3.49, four Mini Ultra replacement pods at 4ml.
• £3.99, three Mini Ultra kits and two Rubik pods. The kits include the device.
• £5.49, seven Pro Max Plus replacement pods at 12ml.
• £5.99, two Rubik kits at 12ml with the device.
• £6.99, four 120ml shortfill bottles at 0mg.
• £7.99, nine Pro Ultra Plus pods at 22ml, and seven Pro Max Plus kits at 12ml with device.
• £11.99, nine Pro Ultra Plus kits at 22ml with device.

Two things fall out of that table. First, the £7.99 tier is doing two jobs at once, which is why it is the most confusing price point on the shelf. At £7.99 you can have 22ml of liquid with no device, or 12ml of liquid with a device attached. Which represents better value depends entirely on whether you already own a Pro Max Plus.

Second, the per-millilitre ranking is not what the headline prices suggest. A 22ml Pro Ultra Plus pod at £7.99 works out around 36p per millilitre. A 12ml Rubik pod at £3.99 is 33p. A 4ml Mini Ultra pod at £3.49 is 87p, comfortably the most expensive liquid on the shelf by volume. The 120ml shortfill at £6.99 is under 6p, though it arrives nicotine-free and needs a tank you already own. Cheap per millilitre and cheap to get started are two different questions, and this shelf answers them with different products.

Where to go next

If the two-citrus profile is what you are after and you now just want to compare hardware, the Lemon Lime Vapes shelf is the tighter tool for the job. If the drink-style builds appealed more, Lemonade Vapes carries those, plus several that are too lightly lemoned to appear on this page.

Moving sideways by fruit: Berry Vapes is the largest shelf on the site and the natural next step if the lemon in a blend turned out to be the part you liked least. Blackcurrant Vapes covers the specific berry that pairs with lemonade most often here, while Raspberry Vapes handles the sharper end of that family and Strawberry Vapes the softer one.

Moving sideways by hardware instead: Hayati Pod Kits lists every complete device we stock across all flavours, which is the right view if you have decided on a format before a taste. New Products is worth a look if you have worked through this shelf before and want to see what has landed since. And the full Hayati catalogue holds all 492 items if none of the shelves above narrows things down enough.

Closing

The useful summary of this shelf is short. Lemon never appears alone in the Hayati range, so your real choice is which partner it has, and that partner sets the character of the vape more than the lemon does. Two-citrus builds are the sharpest and driest. Three-citrus with orange softens them. Lemonade builds are sweeter and heavier than the word suggests. Berry blends bury the lemon almost entirely. Tropical pairings split the difference. Mint and cola change the finish rather than the fruit.

Choose the partner, then the format, and remember that the format commits you to a refill range for as long as you keep the device. Citrus rewards smaller pods and frequent changes more than berry does, so anyone who likes three flavours on rotation will get more out of the 4ml and 12ml options than the 22ml ones, even though they cost more per millilitre to run.

All 54 products on this page are sold by Hayati Flavours, an independent UK retailer of the Hayati range. Prices shown are current at the time of writing. Nothing written here is a health claim of any kind, and we make no medical claims about any product we sell.

Strictly for adults aged 18 and over. Nicotine is an addictive substance.

Frequently asked questions

Is there a plain lemon flavour on this shelf?

No. All 54 products pair lemon with at least one other named component, and the nearest thing to unadorned lemon is a lemon and lime pairing such as Lemon Lime Hayati Rubik Pods. Lime is not a neutral partner: it adds peel bitterness and a green, faintly resinous edge that lemon on its own does not have. If you want the citrus as bare as the range gets, the lemon and lime profile is where to look, but expect two fruits rather than one.

What is the difference between this shelf and the Lemon Lime shelf?

Twenty-one products appear on both. Lemon Lime Vapes is the narrower shelf: everything on it is a lemon-and-lime profile, so it is the right place to browse once you have decided you want the two-citrus build and only need to choose hardware. This shelf is wider and holds lemonades, berry blends, tropical pairings and cooled profiles alongside the lemon and lime ones. Use this page to pick a profile, then that one to compare formats within a single profile.

Which lemon products have a cooling or icy finish?

Three carry an explicit ice element: Lemon Cola Ice Hayati Rubik Pods, the matching Rubik kit at £5.99, and the Cola Ice / Orange Lemon Lime Hayati Mini Ultra Pod Kit, where the cooling sits on the cola half only. Separately, the three Lemon Mint products use mint rather than a cooling agent, which reads cold on the finish without the numbing quality of a heavy ice build. Everything else on the shelf is uncooled.

Which of these is the sweetest?

The sweetest profiles are the lemonade builds and the gummy pairings. Blue Razz Lemonade and Berry Lemonade put candied berry over the lemonade base, and the Blue Razz GB side of the Blue Razz GB / Lemon and Lime pod is a confectionery flavour rather than a fruit one. Strawberry Lemonade is a shade below those. None of them is subtle, and all of them will feel heavy if you normally vape dry citrus.

Which is the sharpest?

The two-citrus and three-citrus profiles, with the lemon and lime versions marginally ahead. Lemon Lime Hayati Mini Ultra Pods and Lemon Lime Hayati Pro Ultra Plus Pods both read as sour first and sweet second. Orange Lemon Lime softens that by roughly a third, because the orange rounds the acid off. If sharpness is the priority, avoid anything with lemonade, gum or berry in the name.

Do Pro Ultra Plus pods fit a Pro Max Plus device?

They do not. Each Hayati prefilled range uses its own pod shape and its own contact layout, so a Pro Ultra Plus pod, a Pro Max Plus pod, a Mini Ultra pod and a Rubik pod are four different parts with nothing interchangeable between them. Buy the replacement pod that names your device. The practical consequence is that your first purchase on this shelf commits you to a refill range, which is a strong reason to buy a kit in a flavour you already know you like rather than one you are merely curious about.

What nicotine strengths are available here?

Three. Every prefilled pod and pod kit on the shelf is 20mg nicotine salt. The seven 10ml bottles in the Pro Max Nic Salts line are 10mg. The four 120ml bottles are supplied at 0mg, nicotine-free as sold. Nicotine is an addictive substance, and those three figures are the only ones the lemon range uses.

Why do two products with the same flavour cost different amounts?

Because one includes hardware and the other does not, or because the pods hold different volumes of liquid. Lemon Lime Hayati Pro Max Plus Pods at £5.49 are the refill on their own; Lemon Lime Hayati Pro Max Plus Pod Kit at £7.99 adds the 850mAh device. Move up to the Pro Ultra Plus and the pod holds 22ml rather than 12ml, which accounts for most of the gap between £5.49 and £7.99 at pod level.

Do the 120ml bottles contain nicotine?

No. Lemon Lime Hayati Pro Max 70/30 and Watermelon Lemon Burst 70/30, along with the two matching 50/50 versions, are all listed at 0mg. They are shortfill bottles, sold with headroom in the neck rather than filled to the top, and what you do with that headroom is your decision. As supplied they contain no nicotine at all.

Which lemon flavours work in a sub-ohm tank?

Only the 70/30 bottles. Both are built thick enough to wick a low-resistance mesh coil at direct-to-lung power. The 50/50 bottles are thinner and belong in a refillable pod or a mouth-to-lung tank, where a 1.0 ohm coil or higher will handle them without flooding. The 10mg nicotine salts are for low-power pods and nothing else. Prefilled pods are sealed units and cannot be decanted into anything.

Why does my lemon pod taste sweeter and duller after a few days?

That is normal for citrus rather than a fault. The molecules that carry lemon zest are light and leave the cotton first, so as a coil picks up residue the bright top of the flavour drops away before the sweetener does. What is left reads as sugary and flat rather than simply quieter. Berry hides this because its body sits lower in the puff and survives longer. On a 22ml Pro Ultra Plus pod you will usually notice it in the last quarter, which is one argument for the smaller 4ml Mini Ultra pods if you are fussy about it.

What does Straw’ Lemonade mean?

It is Hayati's shortening of strawberry lemonade, and it tastes the way the full name suggests: soft red fruit stirred into a sweet-sharp citrus drink. It appears as Straw’ Lemonade Hayati Mini Ultra Pods at £3.49, as a Pro Ultra Plus 25K pod at £7.99 and a matching kit at £11.99, and as one half of the Blackcurrant Lemonade / Straw’ Lemonade Mini Ultra kit. The strawberry is the dominant partner in all of them.

On a dual-flavour pod, are the two flavours mixed together?

They are kept separate. A dual pod such as Lemon Lime / Lemon Blueberry holds two liquids in one housing and you select between them, so you are tasting one or the other rather than a blend of both. That makes the format useful when the two profiles are genuinely different, and close to pointless when they are not. It is also why a citrus-plus-berry pairing gets more out of the format than a pairing of two lemonades does.

Is the lemon in these blends real lemon?

These are flavoured e-liquids, so the lemon note is built from flavouring compounds rather than juice. What that means in practice is that the character is chosen deliberately: some of these products aim at the zest and oil of the peel, which reads sharp and slightly bitter, and others aim at the flesh and juice, which reads rounder and more sour. A third set aims at lemonade, which is a sugar and water drink with a citrus note on top. None of the three is more authentic than the others, and the descriptions above tell you which one each product is going for.