Zone (Chill & Smooth) Nicotine Pouches - Review. 1 January 2026.

Recently, in the 2025 Nicokick.com Christmas Calendar, I opened up these on the last day of Advent:  Zone Smooth and Zone Chill!  These are US market nicotine pouches, produced by TJP Labs in Canada.  They're distributed by Imperial.  As a lot of states in the US have flavor bans, a lot of nicotine pouch companies are making unflavored products.  Each can weighs 8g and has 20 pouches, for 0.4g each.  The pouches are slim, light in weight, and pretty dry.  I checked on Nicokick, and it looks like these come in 6mg and 9mg.  Today, we have the 6mg.  These are pretty light in strength.  Now, let's get into the reviews and see what these. have to offer!

Zone Smooth

Product Description:  "Unflavored".

My Review:  Opening up the can, I don't detect any aroma to speak of.  I smell a little pouch material, a slight note of sweetness.  Same goes for the flavor, an unflavored experience.  There is almost a subtle sweetness to them, but I don't really detect any added taste or anything like that.

Zone Chill

Product Description:  "Unflavored".

My Review:  In the aroma, this one is unchanged from the previous one.  I pick up some pouch material, and a little bit of sweetness.  And of course, the flavor experience is the same.  It's an unflavored pouch experience.  Some pouch material in the taste, a subtle sweetness, and that's about it.  Really, the only difference is perhaps a light tingle, or faint cooling sensation, maybe from a cooling agent.  But as far as the experience goes, these are pretty identical to the last ones.

Rating and Final Thoughts

In 2026, I've decided to stop rating unflavored pouches.  One, it's hard to do an average of them, and if I do, it's really high.  And two, I'm a flavor guy.  It's hard for me to rate something without flavor.  So, to close, I'll say that these are pretty decent if you're looking for an unflavored pouch.  I wish the pouches were more full, but that's really my only criticism.  I also think I'd enjoy the 9mg ones more, because these were quite light in strength.