Two hazes and a candy, and what that combination is for
Pink Haze, Candy Land and Straw Haze all lean sativa, and two of the three are haze cuts. That is an unusual amount of haze on one body. Haze is a polarising family: herbal, incense like, sometimes spicy, and almost never sweet in the way modern selections are. Putting two of them on a single device is a statement about who the product is for.
Candy Land is the concession. It sits between the two hazes as the sweet, approachable position, and it is what stops this being a specialist device that only haze drinkers would tolerate. Its job is to give the palate somewhere soft to go, and it does that well without dragging the whole set toward confectionery.
If you have run haze cuts before and liked them, this is one of the more interesting listings in the V5 range. If you have not, buy something else first and come back to it.
It is also worth saying that haze cuts behave differently in a concentrate than in flower. The herbal character survives the extraction better than the sharper top notes do, which is why a haze in this format often reads as heavier and more incense like than the same name in a jar. Buyers who know the family from flower alone sometimes find that surprising.
Going through the three
Taken in the right order the three cover more ground than a label reading sativa three times would suggest.
Pink Haze is the more floral of the two haze positions. There is a pink, almost rose adjacent sweetness laid over the haze base, and it takes the edge off the herbal character without hiding it. Of the three it is the easiest starting point and the one that reads closest to a conventional flavour, though nobody would mistake it for a fruit cut.
Straw Haze is the sharper haze. Strawberry over the same herbal foundation, but where Pink Haze softens the base, Straw Haze contrasts with it. The fruit sits clearly on top and the haze runs clearly underneath, and the two do not merge. It is the most complex flavour on the device and the one that takes a few sessions to appreciate properly.
Candy Land is the outlier and the easiest tank here. Straightforward sweetness, sugary rather than fruity, with a short finish and no herbal element at all. It is the position most people use when they want the device without wanting to think about it, and it is the tank that disappears fastest when the pen gets passed around.
The sequence that works is Candy Land as a reset between the two hazes rather than as an opener or a closer. Haze cuts are demanding on the palate and having something plain to return to keeps both of them tasting distinct across the life of the device.
Technique matters more on the two haze positions than on Candy Land. Both reward a slow, gentle draw on a coil that has already been used once. A hard first pull on a cold device makes either of them taste thin and slightly bitter, and that single mistake accounts for most of the negative first impressions people have of haze in a pen.
What you get, what it costs, how to keep it
One V5 device: three sealed tanks, a mechanical selector, a stated capacity of 2g, liquid live diamonds as the extract and USB-C recharging. The strains are fixed at manufacture and the tanks do not refill, so the unit retires when the oil does.
Price on the listing when this description was written was 30 dollars, reduced from a 35 dollar list. That covers the complete device. Retail prices move and the product page is the record rather than this sentence.
Keeping it in good order takes almost no effort. Charge it with an ordinary USB-C cable and unplug it when it is finished. Store it upright, at room temperature, away from direct light. Haze profiles depend heavily on volatile aromatics, and a device that has spent time somewhere warm will lose the incense character in both haze tanks long before the oil runs low, which is the specific thing you would be paying for here.
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Pink Haze, Candy Land and Straw Haze: your questions answered
Is haze an acquired taste? For most people, yes. It is herbal and dry rather than sweet, and it rarely impresses on the first draw.
What is the difference between the two haze tanks? Pink Haze softens the base with a floral sweetness. Straw Haze contrasts with it using strawberry. Same foundation, opposite approach.
Why is Candy Land here at all? As a palate reset. Two hazes with nothing between them would be tiring, and the sweet position keeps both of them legible.
Is there an evening tank on this device? No. All three lean sativa. This is a daytime device and it is not pretending otherwise.
Does the haze character fade over time? It does if the device is stored warm. Kept cool and upright it holds for the full life of the tank.
Which tank should I judge the device on? Straw Haze, after a few sessions. It is the most complex position and the one that shows what the format can do.
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