What New York Mint Tastes Like — Subway Gum, Not Toothpaste
The first draw opens on clean spearmint — leafy, green, slightly herbal. No fruit. No sugar. No candy character. The exhale carries the 7 / 10 cooling layer (3.5 / 5 on the 5-pt scale) — clear cold sensation, never crossing into freeze territory. Sweetness sits at 1.5 / 5 (the spearmint concentrate's natural mild sweetness; RAZ does not add sugar).
Reference points users land on: "the spearmint subway gum from the 90s", "an after-dinner mint", "spearmint Tic Tacs". Not toothpaste (no astringent edge), not Altoid (no candy-sugar layer), not menthol cigarette (no tobacco character). The flavor reads as clean leafy mint with a clear cool finish.
New York Mint vs Miami Mint — The Real Difference
Both are spearmint-based, but the supporting structure is completely different:
- New York Mint (this page): clean spearmint, no fruit, no sugar. Sweet 1.5, cool 3.5. Crisp-clean / all-day direction.
- Miami Mint: spearmint + lime + sugar cane. Sweet 3.5, cool 1.5. Warm-tropical mojito / cocktail direction.
Same leading concentrate, opposite design points. NY Mint is the morning / all-day mint; Miami Mint is the afternoon / cocktail mint. If you have been switching between the two trying to decide, the cleanest rule is: NY Mint if you want mint, Miami Mint if you want a fruit-cocktail that happens to have mint character.
Where NY Mint Fits in RAZ Mint Spectrum
RAZ stocks five mint-direction flavors. NY Mint sits in the middle of the cooling scale:
- Miami Mint: 1.5 / 5 cool — warm-tropical, lowest in line
- Wintergreen: 2 / 5 cool — sweet-herbal direction
- New York Mint (this page): 3.5 / 5 cool — clean spearmint mid
- Polar Ice: 5 / 5 cool — peppermint + menthol max
- Fire and Ice: 5 / 5 cool — cinnamon + menthol max
NY Mint is the answer to "I want cooling stronger than Miami Mint but I don't want a freeze". The 7 / 10 cooling reads as cold but doesn't dominate the spearmint character. Customers running NY Mint as a primary mint typically also keep Polar Ice for max-cool moments and Miami Mint for low-cool moments.
Available Devices
Two SKUs:
- RAZ DC25000 / LTX 25K — New York Mint ($22.99, 25,000 puffs, 5% salt nic)
- RAZ LTX 25K Zero Nicotine — New York Mint ($22.99, 25,000 puffs, 0 mg)
Both run on the LTX 25K platform; both at $0.00092 per puff. Not currently stocked on the TN9000 — the clean-spearmint + 7 / 10 cooling stack is tuned for the dual-coil delivery; on the TN9000 the cool layer over-extracts and the spearmint thins. For a TN9000 mint flavor, Miami Mint is the alternative.
Best Pair — After Spicy Food, Coffee Break
NY Mint re-buys cluster in two contexts. First: palate-reset between courses or after spicy food — the clean spearmint + 7 / 10 cool combo cuts through chili-heat and grease without leaving a flavor residue. Second: coffee-break vape — mint pairs cleanly with bitter coffee (the spearmint enhances the coffee's bitterness, the cool refreshes after each sip).
It does not pair with sweet desserts (sweet + cold clash), with other mint flavors in rotation (mint fatigue), or with strong cocktail flavors (Miami Mint already covers the mint-fruit cocktail lane). For rotation, pair NY Mint with Tobacco (savory contrast) or any of the no-cool fruit flavors.
Sweetness vs Cool Rating
Two ratings to know:
- Sweetness 1.5 / 5 — Low, spearmint-natural only. RAZ does not add sugar to this concentrate; the sweetness comes from the spearmint leaf compound itself. Same level as Tobacco (1.5 / 5 sweet). One of the lowest-sweet flavors in the RAZ catalog.
- Cooling 3.5 / 5 (7 / 10) — Clear cold sensation, not freeze. NY Mint sits between Wintergreen (2 / 5 cool) below and Grape Ice / Sour Apple Ice (both 4 / 5 cool) above. Well above Miami Mint (1.5 / 5); well below Polar Ice (5 / 5).
Net: low-sweet, mid-cool, clean-spearmint profile — built for purist mint users, not for sweet-mint or mint-fruit users.
RAZ New York Mint FAQ
What does RAZ New York Mint taste like?
Clean spearmint — leafy, green, slightly herbal, with no fruit / no candy / no sugar layer. The cool layer runs at 7 / 10 (3.5 / 5 on the 5-pt scale) for clear cold sensation. Reference points: spearmint subway gum, after-dinner mint, spearmint Tic Tacs. Not toothpaste, not Altoid, not menthol cigarette.
Is NY Mint the same as Miami Mint?
No — same spearmint base, completely different supporting structure. NY Mint is clean (no fruit, no sugar, 3.5 / 5 cool). Miami Mint adds lime + sugar cane and runs much lower cool (1.5 / 5) — warm-tropical mojito direction.
Is NY Mint on the TN9000?
No — LTX 25K only (plus the Zero Nicotine LTX 25K variant). The clean-spearmint + 7 / 10 cool needs the dual-coil delivery to register evenly. For a TN9000 spearmint flavor, Miami Mint is the alternative — same spearmint base, different supporting layers.
Is there a Zero-Nicotine NY Mint?
Yes — the LTX 25K Zero Nicotine line stocks New York Mint at 0 mg in the Zero Nicotine collection. Same flavor concentrate, same 25,000-puff hardware, no nicotine. Same $22.99 price.
How does NY Mint compare to Polar Ice?
Both are mint, different positions on the cool spectrum. NY Mint is spearmint at 3.5 / 5 cool — clear cold but never freeze. Polar Ice is peppermint at 5 / 5 cool — max-cold menthol wall. NY Mint reads as "after-dinner mint"; Polar Ice reads as "menthol cigarette without tobacco". Different use cases.
Stock NY Mint — LTX 25K or Zero Nic
$22.99 / 25,000 puffs, either nic or 0 mg. Same-day ship from Pomona, CA. The clean spearmint, middle of the RAZ mint family.