TEREA Silver vs Turquoise vs Teak in the UAE: Taste and Menthol

Product Comparisons · 2026 · 15 min read

TEREA Silver vs Turquoise vs Teak is the comparison most UAE buyers run into once they decide to move away from the sweet and heavily flavoured sticks. All three sit in the quieter half of the range, all three are sold in Dubai by the pack and the carton, and all three are easy to confuse if you are reading a shelf label for the first time. The differences are narrow but real: Silver is the lightest pure tobacco of the three, Turquoise is the one that carries menthol, and Teak is the toasted, nutty stick that fills out the middle of a session without any cooling at all. This guide sets the three side by side, answers the lightest-tobacco and menthol questions directly, and closes with the AED figures for every origin stocked today. If you are choosing your first pack, or switching between these three, the answer usually comes down to how much leaf you want to taste and whether you want a chill.

What each of the three sticks is

TEREA Silver is a regular, non-menthol stick built around a balanced tobacco blend. The note is light rather than thin: a clean toasted leaf at the front and a faint spicy-herb edge on the finish, which is what stops it from reading flat. It is the closest thing in the range to a neutral daily stick, and it is the one buyers reach for when they want the tobacco to taste like tobacco and nothing else. In the UAE it is stocked from five origins and the pack price starts at AED 125.

TEREA Turquoise is the menthol member of the trio. Under the cooling there is a lightly toasted tobacco base, so it is not a pure ice stick — the leaf is still audible behind the menthol. The chill is crisp and arrives early, stays present through the session and fades without turning sharp. Buyers who find the Black line too cold, or plain Silver too plain, tend to settle here. Turquoise is also the widest-stocked of the three, with the same five origins as Silver.

TEREA Teak is the warm one. It is a regular stick with a smooth toasted tobacco core and a nutty, creamy finish, and it carries no menthol at all. Compared with Silver it has more body and a rounder, softer edge; compared with Turquoise it is a different drink entirely, because there is no cooling layer to cut through the leaf. Teak is the shortest roster of the three in the UAE, arriving only from Switzerland and Italy, so it starts at AED 156 rather than AED 125.

Mechanically the three are identical. Each pack holds 20 sealed sticks, each carton holds 10 packs and 200 sticks, and each stick is heated by induction inside an IQOS ILUMA device. There is no blade, no cleaning routine and no difference in how the stick seats. The choice between them is taste and price, nothing else.

The three-way comparison table

The quickest way to hold all three in your head is to separate the tobacco from the cooling. Silver and Teak are both regular sticks; Turquoise is the only one of the three with menthol. After that, the split is weight: Silver is light, Teak is fuller and rounder, and Turquoise sits between them with a chill on top.

Attribute	Silver	Turquoise	Teak
Line	Regular	Menthol	Regular, toasted
Menthol	No	Yes, crisp	No
Tobacco presence	Light and balanced	Lightly toasted under the chill	Fuller, smooth and toasted
Finish	Faint spicy herb	Clean, cooling	Nutty, creamy
Origins stocked in the UAE	Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Switzerland, Italy	Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Switzerland, Italy	Switzerland, Italy
Pack price from	AED 125	AED 125	AED 156
Carton price from	AED 1,250	AED 1,250	AED 1,560
Sticks per pack	20	20	20

Two things fall out of that table. First, Silver and Turquoise cost the same at every origin, so the menthol question costs you nothing: you are not paying a premium for cooling. Second, Teak is the only one of the three without a AED 125 entry point, which makes it the most expensive first pack of the trio and the one worth buying in a mixed order rather than a full carton.

A practical note on how the table is priced: the figures above are per pack of 20, and the carton figure is simply ten packs. Because the pack price is flat within an origin, mixing Silver and Turquoise in one carton changes nothing on the bill. Mixing Teak in does, because Teak only comes from the European band.

Which one is the lightest tobacco?

Silver is the lightest of the three, and it is the lightest tobacco-forward stick in the standard TEREA range. The blend is balanced rather than bold, the toasted note is gentle, and the finish is a light spicy-herb trace instead of the cocoa, wood or cream notes that sit on the warmer colours. If your question is “which of these tastes least like a heavy tobacco stick”, the answer is Silver.

Turquoise can feel lighter than Silver on the first draw, but that is the menthol doing the work, not the leaf. Underneath the cooling there is a lightly toasted base that is broadly similar in weight to Silver, and by the middle of the session the tobacco reads clearly again. Buyers who describe Turquoise as “lighter” are usually describing the chill, not a thinner blend. If you want the leaf itself to be light, Silver is the honest answer; if you want the session to feel lighter, Turquoise will do it.

Teak is the heaviest of the three, and it is meant to be. The toasted tobacco is smoother than a strong regular like Sienna or Russet, but it has more body and a longer, nuttier finish than Silver. It is not a strong stick in the way the dark regulars are; it is a rounded one. Smokers who find Silver too quiet and Turquoise too cold usually land on Teak as the middle path, because it gives them presence without heat.

Origin plays a smaller role than the colour does. The Kazakh, Uzbek and Kyrgyz packs at AED 125 are the same stick built for different markets, and the Swiss and Italian packs at AED 156 and AED 180 are the European batches of the same recipe. The blend can shift slightly between batches, but it will not turn Silver into Teak. Choose the colour first, then the origin by budget and availability.

If you want a broader view of where these three sit against the rest of the regular family, our TEREA regular flavours guide runs the full mild-to-strong ladder, including the Yellow, Amber, Bronze and Sienna colours most buyers meet first.

Is Turquoise a menthol stick?

Yes. Turquoise is a menthol flavour, and it is the only menthol stick among these three. The cooling is crisp rather than creamy, it starts early in the session and it sits over a lightly toasted tobacco base. That base is the detail that separates Turquoise from a pure ice stick: you still taste leaf behind the chill, which is why it works as a daily stick for buyers who do not want a full menthol line.

The confusion comes from the colour. Turquoise sits next to Silver, Teak and the other muted regular names on a shelf, and the pack does not shout about menthol the way the Black or Menthol lines do. If you buy Turquoise expecting a smooth regular, the first draw will surprise you. If you buy Silver expecting a chill, you will get none at all. Read the colour as the flavour and the rest follows: Silver and Teak are tobacco, Turquoise is tobacco plus menthol.

Turquoise is also not the coldest stick in the range. That position belongs to the Black line and to the dedicated Menthol sticks. Turquoise is best described as a medium chill: enough to change the character of the session, not enough to numb it. Buyers moving down from Black Menthol often find Turquoise too mild, and buyers moving up from Silver often find it exactly right. Placed on a cooling scale, Turquoise sits above Silver and Teak, which have none, and well below the Black sticks.

One more distinction worth making: Turquoise does not have a crush capsule. The menthol is in the blend, so the flavour is the same from the first draw to the last. If you want the option of switching the cooling on partway through a stick, you want a Pearl edition rather than Turquoise, and the Pearl editions guide explains how those capsules behave.

Best first purchase out of the three

Start with Silver if you are moving from cigarettes and want the closest thing to a plain tobacco session. It is the least sweet, the least cold and the easiest to judge, because there is nothing layered on top of the leaf. A single pack tells you whether you like the TEREA tobacco base at all, which is the question that matters before you spend on a carton. At AED 125 for a Kazakh, Uzbek or Kyrgyz pack, it is also the cheapest way to find out.

Start with Turquoise if you already know you want menthol. Smokers who used menthol cigarettes, or who find regular heated tobacco too dry, usually prefer Turquoise from the first session because the chill keeps the finish clean. It is the easier first buy of the three in one specific sense: it is harder to find dull. The trade-off is that it teaches you less about the tobacco, because the menthol covers part of it.

Start with Teak if you want a warm, rounded tobacco with no cooling and you are willing to pay the European band for it. Teak is the connoisseur’s pick of the three: nutty, creamy, smooth, and clearly more interesting than Silver without being stronger in the way that Sienna is. It is a poor first carton, though, because it costs AED 1,560 and you may find after 20 sticks that you wanted either more chill or more strength.

The order most UAE buyers actually place is a three-pack test: one Silver, one Turquoise, one Teak, 60 sessions in total. At AED 125, AED 125 and AED 156 that is AED 406, and it settles the menthol question and the weight question in one delivery. From there, buy a carton of whichever pack you finish first. Our which TEREA flavour guide runs the same logic across every family if you want to widen the shortlist before ordering.

Swiss and Italian packs: what changes

The Swiss and Italian versions of these three sticks are the same recipes built for European markets, and they are the only way to buy Teak in the UAE. Swiss packs sit at AED 156 for all three flavours; Italian packs sit at AED 180. That puts a Swiss Teak carton at AED 1,560 and an Italian Teak carton at AED 1,800, against AED 1,250 for a Kazakh, Uzbek or Kyrgyz carton of Silver or Turquoise.

What you get for the difference is batch consistency and, for many buyers, a slightly cleaner finish. European batches tend to read a little drier and more precise, with the tobacco notes more separated. That difference is subtle in Silver, more noticeable in Teak because Teak’s nutty-cream finish is the whole point of the stick, and least relevant in Turquoise, where the menthol dominates. If you are buying Turquoise, the AED 125 Central Asian packs are the value pick; if you are buying Teak, you have no cheap option and the Swiss pack is the sensible one.

Availability follows the same pattern. Silver and Turquoise are stocked from five origins, so a specific origin can sell out without leaving you without the flavour. Teak is stocked from two, so a gap in Swiss stock leaves only the Italian pack at AED 180. If Teak is your daily stick, order by the carton and keep a second flavour in rotation. The live IQOS TEREA price list shows which origins are in stock today, so you can see the spread before you commit.

Prices, cartons and delivery in the UAE

Per pack of 20, Silver and Turquoise are AED 125 from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, AED 156 from Switzerland and AED 180 from Italy. Teak is AED 156 from Switzerland and AED 180 from Italy. Per carton of 200 sticks, that is AED 1,250, AED 1,560 or AED 1,800 for Silver and Turquoise, and AED 1,560 or AED 1,800 for Teak. Per stick, the range runs from AED 6.25 at the entry band to AED 9 at the top.

All of those figures include the UAE’s 100% excise on tobacco and the 5% VAT, so the number on the price list is the number you pay at the door. Anything offered far below the AED 125 entry point is worth questioning, because the tax floor makes genuinely taxed stock cheaper than that hard to justify. Every pack we ship is sealed and batch-checked before it leaves the hub.

Delivery is the same for all three flavours. Dubai arrives in 60–120 minutes from confirmation. Every other Emirate is same-day on orders placed before 1 PM and next-day after that. The fee is AED 30 flat, free over AED 499, and cash on delivery works in all seven Emirates with no surcharge. Every handover is 18+ with a valid Emirates ID or passport checked before payment, under Federal Law No. 15 of 2009 and Wadeema’s Law. Full detail sits on the delivery page.

A mixed order is the sensible way to buy these three. One pack of each costs AED 406, just under the AED 499 free-delivery threshold, so add a fourth pack if you want the AED 30 fee to disappear. Two packs of Silver and one of Teak is AED 406 as well, and gives you 40 tobacco sessions and 20 toasted ones, which is a better test of which side of the regular line you actually live on.

Frequently asked questions

Which is lighter, TEREA Silver or TEREA Turquoise?

Silver is the lighter tobacco. Its blend is balanced and gentle with a faint spicy-herb finish, and there is no cooling to mask the leaf. Turquoise can feel lighter on the first draw because the menthol arrives early, but underneath the chill sits a lightly toasted tobacco base of similar weight to Silver, and the leaf reads clearly by mid-session. If you want less tobacco taste, choose Silver; if you want a cooler, cleaner-feeling session, choose Turquoise. Both cost the same at every origin, from AED 125 a pack.

Is TEREA Turquoise a menthol flavour?

Yes. Turquoise is the menthol stick of this trio: crisp cooling over lightly toasted tobacco, present from the first draw to the last. It is not the coldest stick in the range — the Black line and the dedicated Menthol sticks chill harder — and it has no crush capsule, so the flavour does not change mid-stick. If you want to switch the cooling on partway through a session, you need a Pearl edition instead.

Does TEREA Teak contain menthol?

No. Teak is a regular stick with a smooth toasted tobacco core and a nutty, creamy finish, and it carries no cooling at all. It is fuller and rounder than Silver without being as strong as the dark regulars, which makes it the middle option for buyers who want presence but no chill. Teak is stocked in the UAE only from Switzerland at AED 156 a pack and Italy at AED 180, so it is the most expensive of the three to try.

Do Silver, Turquoise and Teak work in every IQOS ILUMA device?

Yes. All three are standard TEREA sticks, sealed and heated by induction, and they fit the whole ILUMA family: ILUMA ONE, ILUMA, ILUMA PRIME, and the ILUMA i ONE, i STANDARD and i PRIME. They do not fit blade-era devices such as the IQOS 3 DUO, which take HEETS. Because the device heats the stick from the outside, there is no blade to clean and no difference in how the three sticks seat.

Which of the three should I buy first?

Silver if you want a plain tobacco baseline, Turquoise if you already know you want menthol, Teak if you want a warm nutty tobacco and do not mind paying the European band. The most efficient test is one pack of each — AED 406 for 60 sessions — which sits just under the AED 499 free-delivery threshold, so the AED 30 fee applies unless a fourth pack joins the order. Buy a carton only after you have finished a pack of the one you liked most.

How much is a carton of these TEREA sticks in Dubai?

A carton is 10 packs, 200 sticks. Silver and Turquoise cost AED 1,250 from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan or Kyrgyzstan, AED 1,560 from Switzerland and AED 1,800 from Italy. Teak costs AED 1,560 from Switzerland and AED 1,800 from Italy. Prices include 100% tobacco excise and 5% VAT, and the current figures are always listed per origin before you add to cart.

Where to buy Silver, Turquoise and Teak in Dubai

Buy from a seller that lists the origin next to the flavour and the AED price before you add to cart, because origin is what moves the bill on these three. The TEREA flavours range carries all five origins of Silver and Turquoise and both origins of Teak, with the taste note for each pack, so you can compare the AED 125, AED 156 and AED 180 versions on one screen before you commit.

Order before 1 PM outside Dubai if you want same-day delivery, and remember that a mixed order over AED 499 ships free. If you are still unsure between the menthol and non-menthol side, order Silver and Turquoise together rather than guessing: 40 sessions for AED 250 in total is the cheapest way to answer the question for good. Every pack leaves the hub sealed, batch-checked and age-verified at handover.

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