Menthol Lost Mary Nic Salts

Overview

The Menthol Lost Mary Nic Salts by Lost Mary in Menthol at 5mg and 20mg. Pick up the BUY 5 FOR £10 multibuy — free UK delivery over £20 and same-day dispatch on weekday orders before 4pm.

Lost Mary Nic Salts Menthol: what you are buying

Lost Mary Nic Salts Menthol is a 10ml nicotine salt e-liquid from Lost Mary, sold in the same bottle format as the rest of the Lost Mary Nic Salts range. It is a single-note flavour: menthol and not much else. There is no fruit layer underneath and no sweet candy base to hide behind, which makes it one of the simplest profiles in the line to understand and one of the easiest to judge once you have vaped a few pods or tanks of it.

Because this is an e-liquid and not a ready-to-use device, it does nothing on its own. You pour it into a refillable pod or tank, or into a compatible refillable pod system, and the device does the rest. That distinction matters more than it used to. Since single-use disposables were banned in the UK in June 2025, most adults who liked the convenience of a sealed unit have moved either to rechargeable kits with replaceable pods or to refillable systems fed from bottles like this one. A bottle costs a fraction of a prefilled pod per millilitre, which is the main reason people choose the refill route.

Here is what the listing gives you to work with:

• Format: a 10ml bottle, which is the largest size UK rules allow for nicotine-containing liquid.
• Type: nicotine salt, which delivers nicotine more smoothly than traditional freebase liquid at the same strength.
• Strengths: listed in 5mg, 10mg and 20mg. The strength selector on the product page is the authority on what is in stock at any moment.
• Flavour: Menthol, a cooling flavour with no fruit.
• Brand: Lost Mary, a name most UK vapers know from its devices before its liquids.

We do not publish a puff count for a bottle because there is not one. How long 10ml lasts depends on your device, your coil, your strength and how often you reach for it, and later sections work through realistic figures rather than guessing. The rest of this page covers the flavour, the hardware it suits, how to choose a strength, how to troubleshoot problems and how it compares with similar lines. Everything here is for adults aged 18 or over, and nicotine is addictive.

What the Menthol flavour tastes like

Menthol e-liquids sit on a spectrum, and it helps to know where this one is likely to land before you order. At one end is mint, a leafy, slightly sweet taste closer to chewing gum or a fresh breath mint. At the other end is pure menthol, which is mostly a temperature rather than a taste: a clean, dry, cold sensation that arrives at the back of the throat and fades slowly through the nose. Lost Mary Nic Salts Menthol is sold as the second kind, a cooling flavour without a fruit or dessert layer, though as with any recipe the exact balance is the maker's own and is not published.

Here is a sensible way to picture a draw, with the usual caveat that taste is subjective and your palate may read it differently:

• The inhale: a cool, crisp, slightly herbal note, with very little sweetness competing for attention.
• The middle of the draw: cooling spreads across the tongue and the roof of the mouth, and the vapour feels lighter and cleaner than a sweet fruit flavour of the same strength.
• The exhale: the cold lingers in the nose and throat for a few seconds, which is the part people who like menthol come back for.
• The aftertaste: short and dry rather than syrupy. You are unlikely to be left with a sweet film on your tongue.

It helps to separate this from the many flavours in the same line that carry the word Ice in the name. Those, such as Cherry Ice, Banana Ice or Watermelon Ice, put a fruit flavour in front and add cooling behind it. Menthol takes the cooling and makes it the whole point. If you want the chill without the fruit, this is the cleaner route. If you want fruit that happens to be cold, one of the Ice flavours will suit you better. The Fresh mint option in the same range sits nearby, and as a general rule mint profiles lean sweeter and leafier while menthol profiles lean colder and drier. Read the flavour description on each listing, because that is where any difference is stated.

One practical effect is worth knowing. Strong cooling can dull your sense of taste after a long session, because the cold sensation competes with everything else your mouth is trying to register. That is why many regular menthol vapers keep a second flavour on hand, and we come back to rotation in the value section below. If you have smoked menthol cigarettes in the past, the cooling character is likely to feel familiar. If you have never liked mint or menthol in anything, this is not the flavour to take a chance on.

How it vapes: throat hit, vapour and how long a bottle lasts

Lost Mary Nic Salts Menthol is a nicotine salt liquid, and that choice of nicotine form shapes how it feels more than the flavour does. Nicotine salts are made by combining nicotine with an acid, which gives a smoother inhale at a given strength than traditional freebase nicotine. In practice that means a 20mg salt liquid feels noticeably gentler in the throat than a 20mg freebase liquid would, and it lets you use a higher strength in a small pod device without the harsh scratch that freebase delivers.

Menthol adds its own sensation on top. Cooling agents soothe the throat while you draw, so a menthol liquid can feel smoother than its strength deserves. Do not mistake that smoothness for lower nicotine delivery: a 20mg bottle is still 20mg. If you notice yourself vaping far more than you used to, or feeling light-headed, jittery or slightly sick, the strength is too high for you, however gentle the draw feels.

Vapour production is modest by design. Nic salt liquids are normally used in low-power pod devices, so you will see less cloud than you would from a large sub-ohm tank. The bottle label states the VG to PG ratio, and that ratio affects how thick the liquid is and how much vapour you get, so check it when the bottle arrives rather than relying on a guess. Balanced and PG-leaning mixes carry flavour well and flow easily through small coils, which is why they dominate this category.

We do not quote a puff count for this bottle, because no puff rating is published and inventing one would be misleading. A bottle is a quantity of liquid, and how long it lasts depends on how you use it. As a rough, illustrative guide to the arithmetic:

• A 10ml bottle fills a typical 2ml pod about five times, because UK rules cap prefilled pods and tanks at 2ml.
• A light user getting through about 1ml a day would stretch one bottle across roughly ten days.
• A moderate user at around 2ml a day would use a bottle in about five days.
• A heavy user at 3ml to 4ml a day would finish a bottle in two to three days.

Those figures are examples to help you plan, not measured results for this product. Your own consumption will settle after the first week or two, and it changes with strength. If the strength you picked does not satisfy, you tend to compensate by vaping more often, which makes the bottle disappear faster. Treat your first bottle as a way of finding your real daily number, then use that to decide how many to order at a time.

The bottle, UK rules and recycling

The packaging is a 10ml plastic bottle with a narrow nozzle designed to fit a refill port, and a cap that is child-resistant and tamper-evident, as UK rules require for liquids containing nicotine. The label carries the nicotine strength, ingredients, the mandatory health warning, batch information and an expiry or best-before date. When your order arrives, check the strength on the label against the strength you selected, and check the seal is intact before you use it. If anything is wrong, contact us before opening it.

A short list of UK numbers explains most of what you see in this category:

• 20mg per ml: the maximum nicotine strength for any legal nicotine e-liquid or prefilled pod. Nothing sold legally in the UK is stronger.
• 10ml: the largest bottle in which nicotine e-liquid may be sold.
• 2ml: the largest capacity for a refillable tank or prefilled pod.
• Single-use disposables: banned from sale in the UK since June 2025, which is why rechargeable and refillable formats now dominate.

The 20mg cap is the one that surprises people who used disposables, because those products were limited to the same strength. Nothing about the maximum changes when you move from a disposable to a bottle. What changes is that you now choose the strength yourself, within the legal ceiling.

Storage matters more than most people expect. Keep the bottle upright, with the cap fully closed, somewhere cool, dry and out of direct sunlight. Heat thins the liquid and degrades flavour, and a bottle left in a hot car is a common cause of leaks and a flat, off taste. Keep it out of reach of children and pets at all times, and wipe up spills straight away, because nicotine liquid can be absorbed through skin.

When a bottle is empty, do not pour leftovers down a drain. Replace the cap, and check your local council's guidance on recycling small plastic bottles, as rules differ between areas. Devices, pods with electronics and batteries are different: they belong in electrical recycling. Council recycling centres and many retailers accept them at WEEE drop-off points, and they should never go in household bins, where a damaged lithium battery can start a fire in a collection lorry.

Battery and charging: what your device has to do

The bottle itself has no battery, so there is nothing to charge when you buy Lost Mary Nic Salts Menthol. The battery question belongs to the device you pour it into, and it is worth thinking through because the pairing affects how the liquid tastes and how often you need to stop and top up.

Refillable pod systems that suit nic salts usually carry batteries in the region of a few hundred to around a thousand mAh. Check the device's own specification rather than assuming, because capacities vary widely between models. Power draw is the other half of the story: nic salt pod kits generally run at modest wattage, so a battery lasts a reasonable stretch between charges. As a loose guide, a regular user will often charge a pod device once a day, while a light user might manage two or three days.

Some points on keeping the battery side trouble-free:

• Use the right cable and a sensible charger. Most current devices charge over USB-C. A charger from a known maker is better than a mystery plug from a drawer.
• Do not leave it charging unattended or overnight on a bed or sofa. Charge on a hard, non-flammable surface where you can see it.
• Do not charge a damaged or swollen device. If a battery looks puffed, feels unusually hot or smells odd, stop using it and take it to a WEEE recycling point.
• Do not carry it loose with keys or coins. Contact with metal objects can short a battery.
• Top up before it is flat. A low battery often gives a weak, thin draw that makes any liquid taste muted, menthol included.

There is a flavour angle too. A device that delivers consistent power gives a steady cool sensation from the first puff to the last, whereas a fading battery makes the cooling feel patchy. If a previously reliable setup starts tasting flat, charge it and refill the pod before blaming the liquid. If you are weighing up a new device, look at the battery capacity, whether the pod is genuinely refillable and whether replacement coils are easy to buy, because those three details decide whether a bottle-fed setup works for you over months rather than days.

If you would rather not manage a battery and a bottle at all, prefilled pod systems exist, but you pay for that convenience in the cost per millilitre, which the value section covers.

Coils, pods and which devices suit nic salts

The coil is the small heating element inside a pod or tank, wrapped in or surrounded by a wick that draws liquid in. Nic salt liquid is designed for low-power use, so the devices that suit Lost Mary Nic Salts Menthol are small refillable pod kits and similar low-wattage systems rather than large sub-ohm tanks.

Coil resistance is the figure to look at. Coils for nic salts are usually relatively high in resistance, commonly somewhere between about 0.6 and 1.2 ohms, and they work at low wattage with a tighter, mouth-to-lung style of draw: you draw into your mouth first, then inhale. Very low resistance coils designed for high power and direct-to-lung inhaling are a poor match. At that power a 20mg salt liquid becomes harsh and wasteful, and the vapour tends to be hot rather than pleasantly cool.

Coil construction comes in a few common forms, and each has its own character:

• Mesh coils spread heat across a flat surface, ramp up quickly and tend to give even, consistent flavour. They are common in current pod systems.
• Ceramic coils are known for stable, clean flavour and are often chosen for pod kits, though the experience depends on the specific design.
• Cotton-wick coils in traditional wire form are straightforward and widely available for refillable pods, and are reliable when properly primed.

Whichever you use, a coil is a consumable. Depending on how much you vape, a coil might last from several days to a couple of weeks. The signs that it is spent are a dull or slightly burnt flavour, a weaker cool sensation and a draw that feels wetter or drier than it used to. Replace it rather than pushing on, because a tired coil makes any e-liquid taste worse than it should.

A word on Lost Mary devices. Some of them use prefilled, sealed pods rather than refillable ones, and a pod that was not built to be refilled should not be refilled. Do not force liquid into a sealed or single-use pod. It can leak, perform badly and may be unsafe. Before you buy any bottle, confirm that your device has a refill port and takes pods or tanks designed to be refilled. Our vape pods and pod kits collections help you narrow the choice, and if you are unsure, ask us before ordering.

Choosing between 5mg, 10mg and 20mg

This listing offers Lost Mary Nic Salts Menthol in 5mg, 10mg and 20mg, and the strength you pick matters more than any other choice on the page. The number is milligrams of nicotine per millilitre of liquid. UK law caps it at 20mg per ml, which is 2 per cent, so 20mg is the strongest bottle you will find legally on sale anywhere in the country.

Some guidance for each option, remembering that this is general information and not personal advice:

• 20mg gives the firmest hit and is where many adults who smoked heavily start, particularly if they used to smoke around a pack a day. Because it is a salt, it is smoother than freebase at the same number, but it is still the strongest option, and it is not suited to light or occasional users.
• 10mg is the common middle ground. It satisfies many people who smoked less heavily, and it suits those who find 20mg too sharp, too fast or too jittery.
• 5mg is for light users, for people who already vape at lower strengths, and for those who are gradually reducing their nicotine intake.

Most people who get this wrong choose too low rather than too high. Under-dosing leads to vaping more often to make up the difference, which costs more, drains the battery sooner and rarely feels better. If you smoked regularly and a lower strength leaves you chasing the device, moving up one step is a reasonable fix. On the other hand, if you feel dizzy, queasy, headachy or shaky, you are taking in more than you need, and dropping a step is the answer.

Menthol adds a wrinkle. The cooling makes the inhale feel gentler, so it is easy to underestimate how much nicotine you are getting at 20mg. Judge the strength by how you feel an hour later, not by how smooth the first few draws seem. If you are choosing between two strengths, start with the lower one on a new flavour and move up only if needed.

Nicotine is addictive, and this product is for adults who already smoke or vape. If you have never used nicotine, do not start. If you are pregnant, breastfeeding or have a heart condition or other medical condition, speak to a doctor or pharmacist before using any nicotine product. Do not mix strengths in the same pod. Fill with one bottle at a time so you always know what you are taking in.

Who Menthol suits, and who should look elsewhere

Lost Mary Nic Salts Menthol is a focused product, so the question of fit is simple. It works well for some adults and poorly for others, and being honest about that saves you a wasted order.

It tends to suit:

• Adults switching from smoking who smoked menthol cigarettes and want a flavour in the same family. The cooling character is familiar, and nic salts at an appropriate strength are widely used by people making that change.
• Low-power pod users with a refillable device who want an inexpensive liquid to keep it running.
• Vapers who dislike sweetness. With no fruit, dessert or candy layer, Menthol leaves less sticky residue in the mouth than sugary profiles.
• People who rotate flavours. A clean cooling flavour is a good palate reset between sweeter ones, and the range has plenty of other flavours to pair it with.
• Budget-minded buyers who have done the sums on prefilled pods and want the cheaper per-millilitre route.

It is probably not for you if:

• You have never smoked or vaped. This product contains nicotine and is for adult smokers and vapers only.
• You dislike menthol or mint. There is nowhere for the flavour to hide, so if it is not your taste you will notice straight away.
• You want a sweet, fruity or dessert flavour. The Ice and fruit flavours in the same line are a better fit.
• You use a high-wattage sub-ohm device. Nic salts are the wrong liquid for that hardware, and a freebase or shortfill liquid is the more usual choice there.
• You do not want to refill. A prefilled pod system saves the job, though at a higher cost per millilitre.
• Strong cooling irritates your throat. Some people cough or get a sore throat on heavy menthol. If that happens, try a lower strength, shorter draws, or choose a different flavour.

We only sell to people aged 18 or over, and orders are age-checked before dispatch.

How to fill and use it, step by step

Filling a refillable pod takes a minute once you have done it a couple of times. The steps below suit most pod systems, but your device's own instructions take priority if they differ.

• Step 1, check compatibility. Confirm that your pod or tank is designed to be refilled and that it has a fill port. Never force liquid into a sealed or single-use pod.
• Step 2, prepare. Wash and dry your hands. Remove the pod from the device and, if it is a new pod, take off any bung or cover from the fill port. Work over a surface you do not mind wiping.
• Step 3, open the bottle. Take off the child-resistant cap as the instructions on it show. The narrow nozzle is designed to fit into the port.
• Step 4, fill gently. Hold the pod upright, place the nozzle into the port and squeeze slowly. Aim the liquid down the side wall rather than straight onto the coil, which helps avoid air locks and flooding.
• Step 5, stop at the line. Fill to just below the maximum marking. Overfilling is the commonest cause of leaks and gurgling.
• Step 6, close up and wipe. Replace the bung, wipe the pod and the nozzle clean, and refit the cap on the bottle until it is fully closed.
• Step 7, let it prime. Wait around five minutes for the wick to soak up liquid. With a brand new coil, ten minutes is a safer figure.
• Step 8, take the first puffs gently. Use short, soft draws to begin with, then settle into your normal rhythm.

Priming is the step people skip, and it is the one that most often ruins a fresh coil. A dry wick heated by the battery burns instantly, and the burnt taste stays in that coil for good. If you notice any hint of a scorched flavour, stop and let the pod rest rather than pushing through.

For the draw itself, nic salt devices are designed for a mouth-to-lung style: take the vapour into your mouth for a second or two, then inhale it. Short draws of two to three seconds work best, and long pulls or chain vaping heat the coil faster than the wick can resupply it. Between sessions, store the device upright, keep the pod topped up before it runs dry, and swap to a fresh pod or coil at the first sign of fading flavour.

Finally, if you are changing flavour, use up or empty the old liquid and, ideally, rinse the pod and let it dry before filling with something different. Otherwise the two flavours blend, and the cooling from Menthol will overpower whatever you put in next.

Troubleshooting: burnt taste, weak flavour, leaks and gurgling

Most problems blamed on a liquid are caused by priming, filling or storage. Here are the usual culprits and what to do about them.

• Burnt or scorched taste. Usually a dry wick or a spent coil. Let the pod sit, take gentler draws, make sure the pod is topped up and replace the coil if the taste persists. Menthol makes a burnt note especially easy to spot because there is no fruit to cover it.
• Weak or muted flavour. Check the battery first, then the liquid level, then the coil. If all three are fine, you may be experiencing palate fatigue from vaping one flavour all day. Swap to a different flavour for a day or two and come back.
• Gurgling or spitting. Typically an overfilled pod or condensation in the airflow channel. Remove the pod, wipe the mouthpiece and airflow holes, and fill a little lower next time.
• Leaking. Common causes are overfilling, heat, a poorly seated pod or a damaged seal. Keep the device upright, avoid leaving it in a hot car or on a radiator, and check the pod is properly clicked in.
• Harsh throat hit. Either the strength is too high for you or the device power is too high. Drop a strength, shorten your draws and check the device is not running above what the coil suits.
• Cough or sore throat. Menthol cooling can irritate some people. A lower strength, a softer draw or a different flavour usually solves it. If it persists, stop using it.
• Liquid has darkened. Nicotine liquid often changes colour slowly with age and exposure to light and air. A slight darkening is common. Check the best-before date and discard anything that smells or tastes wrong.
• Flavour changed after a pod swap. If a new pod tastes odd, it may need priming, or residue from the previous flavour may be mixing in.

If a problem keeps returning across different pods and different bottles, the cause is likely to be the device rather than the liquid, and a replacement device or coil is the cheapest fix. If the bottle itself seems wrong, such as a damaged seal, the wrong strength on the label or a leak in transit, tell us. Anything faulty or wrongly sent is ours to put right. Opened consumables fall outside our returns policy because we cannot resell them, so check your order before you open it.

Value for money: the running cost worked through

The real argument for a bottle is cost per millilitre. A prefilled pod looks cheap at the till but holds only 2ml, so you buy a lot of them. A 10ml bottle holds five times as much liquid. Sibling flavours in the Lost Mary Nic Salts line list at £2.89, and the line has carried a buy 5 for £10 offer, so check the Menthol listing for its exact current price and whether the offer applies.

Take those sibling-line figures as a worked example. At £2.89 a bottle, 10ml works out at about 29p per millilitre, or roughly 58p to fill a 2ml pod. With a buy 5 for £10 offer, each bottle comes in at £2.00, which is 20p per millilitre and 40p per 2ml fill. For comparison, if a prefilled 2ml pod cost £3, the same 10ml of liquid bought as five of those pods would cost £15. That pod price is only an illustration, so compare the real unit prices on our pod listings, but the shape of the saving is consistent: refilling costs a fraction of buying prefilled.

The savings are not free, so here is the other side of the sums:

• You need a refillable device, and that is an upfront purchase if you do not already own one.
• Coils are consumables, so budget for replacements every week or two.
• Refilling takes a minute and can be messy until you have the knack.
• A strength that does not satisfy you makes you use more, which eats into the saving.

There are sensible ways to keep costs down. Choose the strength that actually satisfies you. Take advantage of multibuy deals, which can usually be mixed across flavours so you can rotate. And build your basket up to the free delivery threshold: UK delivery is free once your basket reaches £20, so two bundles of five bottles at £10 each would put you right at that mark, if the offer applies to this listing. Weekday orders placed before 4pm are dispatched the same day, and tracked options are shown at checkout.

The value is also in what you do not pay for. Because you are refilling from a bottle, the device and battery stay in use while only the liquid and an occasional coil are replaced. That is a more sustainable pattern than binning a unit every few days, which is one reason the disposable ban reshaped the market the way it did. Rotation helps here too. Keeping one cooling flavour such as Menthol alongside a fruit flavour means each tastes sharper for longer, so you waste fewer half-used bottles.

How it compares with similar lines

No single liquid is right for everyone, so here is a fair look at where Lost Mary Nic Salts Menthol sits among the alternatives. We are not ranking brands, because recipes differ and taste is personal.

Against other flavours in the Lost Mary range. The Ice flavours put fruit up front with cooling behind it, and Fresh mint is the sweeter, leafier cousin. Menthol is the cold, dry, plain option. If you are unsure, order one Menthol and one Ice or mint flavour and compare. At this price point that is a cheap experiment.

Against prefilled pods. Prefilled pod systems remove refilling, mess and the need to think about priming. They cost more per millilitre and tie you to the maker's own pods. A bottle is cheaper and lets you change flavour freely, but it needs a refillable device and a little care.

Against other 10ml nic salt lines. Competing ranges from other UK brands, including Elfliq, IVG Salts, Nasty Salt, Bar Salts and Dinner Lady, also sell menthol, mint or ice-style flavours in 10ml bottles. Prices vary and some sit higher. Some offer more elaborate recipes or a wider spread of strengths, and some are tuned differently for sweetness or intensity. The fair summary is that Lost Mary competes on price and familiarity rather than on a complicated flavour recipe, and for a straight menthol that is often what you want. If you try several, keep notes on the strength and the device, because both change the result.

Against freebase and shortfill liquids. These are formulated for higher-power, larger devices. They are not a like-for-like alternative for a small pod kit, and using nic salts in a sub-ohm tank or a shortfill in a pod device gives poor results in both directions.

A short decision guide:

• Want cold and plain, in a refillable pod: this bottle.
• Want fruit with a chill: an Ice flavour in the same range.
• Want something gentler and sweeter: Fresh mint or a fruit flavour.
• Want no refilling: a prefilled pod kit, accepting the higher cost.
• Run a high-wattage sub-ohm device: look at freebase or shortfill liquids instead.

Whichever you pick, buy from a UK retailer that sources through proper distribution. Everything we list is genuine stock bought through UK distribution, and we are happy to point you at the right option if you tell us your device and your usual strength.