The mattress is an inch thicker than the Original, though the difference wasn’t too noticeable while I was sleeping on it (the extra inch is in the second polyfoam layer, not in the top comfort layer). What we like: The three-layer construction of the 13-inch Nectar Premier is similar to that of the Original, with a top memory-foam layer and two polyfoam layers underneath. (Costco also surpasses Nectar with regard to the trial period because it allows you to return the Novaform at any time.) The 14-inch Novaform ComfortGrande, our favorite under-$1,000 memory-foam mattress, also has denser foams (3 to 3½ pounds per cubic foot), and it costs several hundred dollars less than the Nectar Original. Even the Best Price Mattress, a pick in our guide to the best cheap mattresses, has a top memory-foam layer with a density of 2.4 pounds per cubic foot, and it costs less than half the price of the Nectar Original. Other similarly priced foam mattresses, such as the Leesa Original and the Casper Original, use denser foams than the Nectar Original’s. The density of the Original’s top memory-foam layer is only 2.13 pounds per cubic foot, which falls short of those benchmarks.

As we note in our guide to choosing a mattress, experts say to look for memory foam that’s at least 3 pounds per cubic foot, for people under 200 pounds, and at least 4 pounds per cubic foot, for people over 200 pounds. What we don’t like: The Nectar Original is made of less-dense foam than we like to see in all-foam mattresses, which might suggest it won’t be durable over the long term. Of course, how this mattress feels to you may depend on your size and build: Senior staff writer Joanne Chen, who is 5-foot-7 and 128 pounds, didn’t find the Original to be as soft as I did. Although I can’t say the Nectar Original was luxe, or even objectively unique or special in some way, we just plain liked it. And we both loved its balanced feel and appreciated how plush the mattress was compared with competitors like the Casper Original or Leesa Hybrid. My partner and I slept really well on this mattress. Of the mattresses I’ve tested, the Nectar Original most resembled the Tuft & Needle Mint, a softer all-polyfoam mattress. In an industry full of foam mattresses that are all variations of medium-firm, the Original offers a notable change of pace, and it may appeal to people who know they want a softer all-foam mattress. I’m 5-foot-9 and about 195 pounds, and I never felt poorly supported while sleeping on the Original. It provided great pressure relief for my shoulders and hips when I slept on my side, but it also offered enough support that my spine stayed aligned.

The Original also felt relatively soft compared with other foam mattresses I’ve slept on, veering toward the medium-soft end of medium. For some people, this blandness could be a blessing, even if the mattresses themselves are nothing special. In fact, Matt Clift, the executive vice president of operations for Resident, Nectar’s parent company, told me the aim was for Nectar’s mattresses to garner the same number of “too soft” reviews as “too firm” ones, in order to satisfy the most people. The mattresses feel like the median of every modern bed-in-a-box out there-they’re clearly engineered for the masses. Perhaps the most distinctive feature of Nectar mattresses is, well, their lack of any distinctive features. The Original and Premier both had a medium to medium-soft feel, softer than that of most memory-foam mattresses I’ve tried, so this was something I appreciated as a side-sleeper. Nectar’s full roster currently includes three variants:īut are the mattresses any good? In my apartment I slept on the Original and the Premier for about a week each, and my partner and I both loved their cushioned embrace. The company recently replaced the Lush with two new “premium” mattresses. Nectar is a relative newcomer to the online foam-mattress business, launching in 2016 with just one mattress, the original all-foam Nectar, and introducing a second, the Lush, in January 2020. I’ve found it’s become impossible to scroll without encountering an ad boasting of Nectar’s yearlong free trial and lifetime warranty (which is an attention-grabbing guarantee in an industry where the 100-day free trial has become unremarkable). If you’ve seen Nectar mattress ads preceding YouTube videos or flooding your social media feeds, you’re not alone.

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