Hayati Pro Ultra Plus Pods

Three parts. The pod is a black block with two clear chambers, roughly a millilitre each, a mesh coil under each chamber and the twist mouthpiece already built into the top with a rubber cap over it. Then two 10ml refill containers, coloured to match the flavour, that clip onto the sides of the block and feed their chamber automatically as it empties. Bungs seal the containers and the pod base in transit; they come off before fitting. That is 2ml in the pod plus 20ml in the containers, 22ml, and every ml of it is 20mg (2%) nicotine salt.

Read the box, because it settles the argument. The front panel, next to the twist icon, prints "2ml + 2 × 10ml". PAX's own UK listing filters the pack at "E-Liquid Capacity 22ml". The 24ml figure on other pages comes from counting the pod as two 2ml pods; it is not, and it could not be, because 2ml is the legal ceiling for a pod in the UK. The reason the design is legal at 22ml is that the containers are separate, sealed refill bottles in all but shape, each inside the 10ml limit. That split is the entire reason a 25,000-puff device can be sold here at all.

On a twin pairing the two containers are different flavours and the chambers match them, side 1 and side 2, with the names printed on the containers. On a single-flavour pack both containers are the same liquid. Hayati Pro Ultra prefilled pods are exactly that, prefilled, and nothing here is refillable by you: the chambers are sealed, the containers are single-use, and a retailer calling these "refillable pods" means refill as in replace. The containers are not sold on their own either; the coils live in the pod, so PAX sells pod and containers as one pack and so do we.

A pack is rated at 25,000 puffs, which is a machine number on 22ml, about 1,140 puffs per millilitre. A person taking normal draws will see somewhere between 15,000 and 22,000 from it, so the honest way to think about a pack is in days at your own habit rather than in puffs. The table below does that at our refill price, and the slider under it lets you put in your own number.

The part nobody explains: each side is its own supply. A chamber and its container hold about 11ml, so a twin pairing is really two 11ml refills that share a battery, and only the side under the mouthpiece is being used. Favour Cherry Ice over Peach Mango and the Cherry Ice side goes dry weeks before the other, at which point you have a device with 9ml of Peach Mango in it and nothing else. The fix is either to alternate deliberately (a day on each side keeps them level) or to buy a single-flavour pack of the one you actually like, which puts the whole 22ml behind it. The containers are clear, so you can see which side is winning; the display shows battery and the live side, not the liquid level.

Forty-three on the selector as I write this, 24 twin pairings and 19 singles, and every one is the same £5.80 so pick on taste alone. Ten are between deliveries at the moment and show as back soon; the rest are on the shelf. Hayati's box shorthand needs a decoder: GB is gummy bear, Cotton K is cotton candy (candy floss), B' Gum and H'Bubba are bubblegum and the Hubba Bubba style, Straw' is strawberry, and H' Berg and P' Man are Heisenberg and Pink Man, the two blue-and-pink blends everyone over thirty remembers from shortfill days.

The Hayati Pro Ultra Plus pods flavours below are grouped by what they taste of rather than by colour, with a line on each side of every pairing. If you want them ranked instead, the best Hayati Pro Max flavours guide argues it out across the whole range. Our own sales say Cherry Ice with Peach Mango, Watermelon Ice, Mr Blue and Strawberry Watermelon, in that order; Fresh Mint is the only pure mint and sells to the same people every time.

Every pack we sell is UK-market stock bought through authorised distribution, and we keep the invoices. Hayati Pro Club is an independent retailer, not the brand and not affiliated with PAX; we say that on every page because the copies out there trade on the confusion. A real pack looks like the boxes below: a white front with the Hayati lotus, "PRO ULTRA+ Pods" and the flavour band in its colour, "25000+ PUFFS", the 20 MG roundel, the twist icon, "2ml + 2 × 10ml" beside the pod picture, and the nicotine warning in a plain black-bordered box that takes up the bottom third. Every one carries a scratch-off code you can check on Hayati's verification page; our Hayati fake check guide shows exactly where the panel is and what a failed check looks like.

Two quick tells on the shelf. Genuine containers are crisp and clear with the flavour name printed on them; copies tend to be cloudy plastic with a sticker. And anything sold as a "Pro Ultra Plus pod" at 24ml, or in 10mg, or "refillable", is either a mistake in the listing or not the product in the picture.