Beyond
Beyond is what the official manufacturer made for BONDS by IQOS when the brief was flavor instead of tobacco character. There is no tobacco leaf in a Beyond stick; the core is infused with flavor and with nicotine, and nicotine is addictive, so the line is for adults who already run the heater. Three variants make it up. Deep Mint holds an intense cooling over a creamy undertone and has nothing to click. Blueberry Mix and Strawberry with Watermelon Mix each start on a light, fresh base, and a capsule in the filter turns that base into a cooling flavor carrying the fruit in the name.
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About Beyond
Beyond is the second stick line for BONDS by IQOS, sitting beside the tobacco-based Blends range on the same heater. What it leaves out is the tobacco leaf; what it keeps is the nicotine, which goes into the core along with the flavor — the absence of tobacco is not an absence of nicotine. The manufacturer has not published what that core is made of, only that it holds flavor and nicotine and no tobacco leaf, so no material is named here. The stick body is the one BONDS expects: closed at both ends, nothing inside it to heat, warmed from the chamber wall rather than from within, which also means there is nothing to brush out of the heater afterwards. Packs hold twenty sticks and a session runs up to five minutes with no puff limit. Beyond is a recent addition to the BONDS range and is not yet listed by the manufacturer in every European market.
Lineup
- Deep Mint — the one variant with no capsule. An intense cooling with a creamy note underneath it, holding the same character from the first draw to the last.
- Blueberry Mix — opens light and fresh. Pinch the capsule in the filter until it clicks and the session turns to a cooling blueberry.
- Strawberry with Watermelon Mix — opens on strawberry over the same fresh base. The click takes it to a cooling watermelon for the rest of the stick.
Compatibility
The exclusivity here runs one way: a Beyond stick belongs in BONDS by IQOS and nowhere else, while BONDS itself takes both of its stick lines, Beyond and Blends. The reason is that there is nothing inside a Beyond stick for another heater to act on. An IQOS ILUMA warms a metal element seated in the stick by induction, and a Beyond stick has no such element, so an ILUMA has nothing to warm. A blade heater — IQOS Originals, IQOS 3 DUO, lil SOLID — expects an open end to slide into, and both ends of a Beyond stick are closed with a filter plug, so the blade would press into the plug instead. glo and Ploom run formats of their own. This is a matter of construction, not of market or firmware version.
FAQ
Do Beyond sticks contain nicotine?
Yes. There is no tobacco leaf in them, but every stick carries nicotine, and nicotine is addictive. Taking the leaf out of a stick does not take the nicotine out of it. No per-stick figure has been published for this line, so none is quoted here.
What is the difference between Beyond and Blends?
They run on the same BONDS by IQOS heater and use the same sealed stick body, so BONDS accepts either one. Blends is the tobacco range and tastes of the leaf it is made with. Beyond has no leaf in it and runs on flavor instead — mint and fruit, with a capsule on two of the three variants.
How does the Mix capsule work?
Squeeze the filter until the capsule clicks. The light, fresh base the stick starts on gives way to a cooling version of the fruit in the variant name, blueberry or watermelon. Deep Mint has no capsule and stays as it is throughout.
Every Beyond variant we carry sits above. The heater it belongs to is BONDS by IQOS.