Velo - Peppermint Storm | 10 Cans

VELO Peppermint Storm: Menthol First, Peppermint Second

VELO Peppermint Storm is a menthol-led cooling mint sold in slim tobacco-free pouches at 11mg, 14mg and 17mg, twenty to a can. VELO describes it as "a blend of menthol with a hint of peppermint, providing an intense cooling sensation", and the word order in that sentence is the whole product. Menthol runs the show here. Peppermint is the supporting act, which is precisely the opposite arrangement to most of the mints on this shelf.

You may know it as Cool Storm, or Cooling Storm, which is what it was called until the January 2024 rebrand renamed most of the catalogue. Same recipe, same milligrams, new can. The word COOLING is still printed on the front under the snowflake, which is a small mercy for anyone trying to work out whether they have picked up the right tin.

Peppermint Storm vs Freezing Peppermint: the Head-to-Head

This is the question that brings most people to this page, and it deserves answering before anything else. These two share a strength ladder, a format and a colour family, and they are genuinely different pouches.

Put plainly: Freezing Peppermint is colder, Storm is fresher. Freezing goes deeper and stays there, while Storm has more sparkle to it and a faint sweetness that keeps it from feeling austere. Neither is stronger in nicotine terms, since the ladders are identical, so anyone telling you one is the stronger pouch is talking about sensation rather than milligrams.

If you have never tried either, Storm is the easier one to live with. If you already run Freezing Peppermint daily and find it slightly punishing, this is the sideways move rather than the step down.

What a Peppermint Storm Pouch Actually Tastes Like

Open the can and you get a sharp hit of mint aroma before anything reaches your lip. One independent reviewer describes the arc as menthol first, then icy peppermint arriving behind it, with some sweetness present but nothing overdone. That matches what most users report: the cold registers immediately, the peppermint fills in over the following minute, and the two settle into a balance rather than one burying the other.

The most repeated observation about this flavour has nothing to do with the pouch itself. Cold water tastes noticeably icier for a while afterwards, sometimes for twenty minutes or more. It is the menthol lingering on the receptors rather than anything mystical, and it is the reason Storm has a small cult following among people who like a cold drink after.

Flavour holds for roughly 40 to 45 minutes, which is at the longer end for this brand. The pouches themselves are slim, soft and moderately moist, they sit flat without bulging, and the drip stays low. Comfort is genuinely one of the better things about VELO and Storm is no exception.

Where it disappoints. Push a single pouch past the forty-minute mark and the menthol can drift towards medicinal, a faintly clinical edge that some people never notice and others cannot unnotice. The same reviewer who described the taste arc scored the flavour 2.5 out of 5 and the pouch 3.17 overall, not because it is poorly made but because the mint category is crowded and Storm does not attempt to reinvent it. That is a fair criticism. This is a well-executed cooling mint, not a surprising one.

Strength by Strength: 11mg, 14mg and 17mg

Three strengths, all of them in the upper half of the range. There is no gentle Peppermint Storm, which is worth knowing before you order.

The milligram-per-gram column is calculated rather than copied: a slim can holds 20 pouches at 14g net, so each pouch is 0.7g. It is the figure that tells you how concentrated a pouch is, as opposed to how much nicotine it holds in total, and almost nobody publishes it.

Be careful with third-party strength listings for this product specifically. Several UK retailers still print dot counts that are simply wrong, describing the 17mg as five dots or the 11mg as three. The correct mapping is the one above: four, five and six. When a listing and a can disagree, the can wins.

The 11mg is the sensible entry, and the odd 10.9mg you sometimes see is not a different product, just the un-rounded legacy figure from the old X-Strong recipe. The 17mg is where the nicotine stops being background and starts being the point, and the sensation is amplified by all that menthol arriving at once.

What X-Intense on the Can Actually Means

VELO groups its strengths into named tiers, and the labels turn up in search far more often than the brand seems to expect. Mellow covers the bottom of the ladder at 4mg and 6mg. Original covers the middle, which includes the 11mg Storm. Intense covers 14mg and 17mg, and the 17mg carries an X-Intense marking to separate the very top rung from the one below it.

None of that is a separate product line. An X-Intense Peppermint Storm is a Peppermint Storm at 17mg, not a different recipe with extra menthol. The tier names describe nicotine, not flavour, which is a distinction the packaging does not make especially clearly.

The dots replaced an older printed system in January 2024. Cans used to say Mild, Medium, Strong, X-Strong, Ultra and Max, and Storm existed then as Cool Storm in the X-Strong, Ultra and Max variants that are now 11mg, 14mg and 17mg. Old stock still circulates in supermarkets, so you may well meet both systems on the same shelf. The full ladder is laid out in our guide to VELO nicotine pouches.

Where Storm Sits Among the VELO Mints

Five mints, one scale, running from polite to arctic. Storm sits high but not at the top, and it is the only one of them that leads with menthol rather than with a named mint.

Coming from Crispy Peppermint, Storm is a real step up in both cooling and nicotine, since Crispy tops out at 10mg. Coming from Bright Spearmint it will feel like a different category altogether. The full line-up sits on the VELO collection page, and the wider mint and menthol shelf covers every brand we stock.

Peppermint Storm Specs at a Glance

Tobacco-free means no tobacco leaf rather than laboratory-made nicotine. UK VELO uses pharmaceutical-grade nicotine extracted from the tobacco plant, sitting on plant cellulose fill. The synthetic label gets attached to this brand constantly and it belongs to a separate VELO range sold in the United States, not to anything on this page.

Getting the Best Out of a Storm Pouch

Twist the lid rather than levering it. Fresh pouches sit in the body of the can, and the shallow ring beneath the lid holds used ones until you find a bin.

Set one pouch flat under your upper lip against the gum. Menthol arrives almost at once, well ahead of the nicotine, and a tingle in the first minute or two is normal and sharper at 17mg. Thirty to forty-five minutes is the useful window. Going much beyond that is where the medicinal note tends to creep in, so this is a flavour that rewards taking out slightly early rather than squeezing dry.

One at a time is enough at these strengths. Swallowing your saliva is fine, swallowing the pouch is not. Newcomers should not start here at all: the low strength collection is the right first stop, and our note on daily pouch use is worth reading before ordering in volume.

The Cost of Ten Cans

Single cans of VELO sit around £6.50 on the high street, so ten of them is roughly £65. Our ten-can pack is £34.99, which is £3.50 a can, and the strength you choose makes no difference to that number.

Storm is one of our better-selling mints, which is the practical argument for buying it ten at a time rather than one at a time: this is not a flavour most people try once and abandon. If you are still deciding between this and its colder sibling, buying one pack of each is a common enough approach, and the high strength collection lists everything else at 14mg and above.

Who Storm Is For, and Who Should Buy Something Else

Buy it if you want cooling with some brightness to it, if you have found Freezing Peppermint a bit relentless, or if you want a proper high-strength mint that still tastes of something rather than just registering as cold. The build quality is not in question. The pouch is comfortable, the release is quick, and 40-plus minutes of flavour is genuinely good for a moist pouch.

Buy something else if you are new to pouches, since 11mg is not a starting strength and Crispy Peppermint at 6mg does the same job gently. Buy something else if you want maximum cold, where Freezing Peppermint is the honest answer. And if you are sensitive to menthol turning clinical, this is the flavour most likely to do it, so consider a peppermint-led option instead.

The official listing is on the VELO UK Peppermint Storm page, and our VELO flavour ranking places it against the rest of the range. Nicotine is addictive whatever it tastes like, and these pouches are for adults who already use it.

Updated July 2026. Strengths verified against the official VELO UK range and prices checked against UK retailers at the time of writing.