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Nectar Premier vs Tuft & Needle Essential Original

Easily compare the Tuft & Needle Essential Original vs Nectar Premier Mattresses side-by-side.

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Essential Mattress Info

Brand
Nectar (USA)Tuft & Needle (USA)
Mattress Type
Memory foamAll Foam
Prices
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Trial & Warranty

Trial Period
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Trial Period (nights)
365100
Warranty Length (years)
FOREVER10

Firmness Options

One Firmness Fits All?
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Adjustable Firmness
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Half-Half Firmness
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Selectable Firmness
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Flippable / Reversible Firmness
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Firmness Info

The Nectar Premier is plush but highly supportive. Around a 6.5 out of 10 on the firmness scale. You have a full 365 nights to try the mattress in the comfort of your own home. Nectar Premier is the result of strategic engineering for comfy, cool, and supportive slumbers for all sleeper styles. So whether you sprawl like you're single or conk out on your side, Nectar's ideal ratio of softness, firmness and support works for you.

We make one model of mattress that is designed to be universally comfortable and medium firm, in order to benefit all different types of sleepers regardless of factors such as age, height, weight, or the way you sleep. We like to describe it as firm enough to be supportive, yet soft enough to be comfortable!
We've designed our foam to work with those who like soft mattresses as well as those who like firm, so we encourage everyone to give us a try regardless of your usual preference. If you're not 100% satisfied, you can return it for a full refund.

Mattress Construction

Materials Overview

The Nectar Premier Memory Foam Mattress features 13" of premium materials and has 3 layers:

  • 3" Memory Foam with Surface-Infused Phase Change Material (PCM) Gel (Density: 3.5 lbs, ILD: 10)
  • 3" Memory Foam (Density: 2.5 lbs, ILD: 18)
  • 7" PU Support Foam (Density 1.8 lbs, ILD: 36).

Two-layer blended foam designed by and proprietary to Tuft & Needle:

  • The comfort foam layer is 3" of a very high-density foam that we created to achieve our universally comfortable, cool and responsive properties. The density is about 2.8 lbs/cubic ft.
  • The support foam layer is 7" of a high-density poly-foam. The density is about 1.8 lbs/cubic ft.

Comfort Info

While Nectar uses cooling materials in the cover, Nectar Premier builds on this by using ActiveCool memory foam, which dynamically adjusts to individual body heat. So if you sleep hot, it wicks your heat and stores it. If you sleep cool, it releases stored heat to help warm you. And with the Premier, you get the cooling cover, too. So you, or you both, or you all sleep even-steven and wake up like hibernation's over.

Our foam works in three ways to draw heat from your body and disperse it out of the mattress.
Heat Wicking
Heat is drawn into the mattress where gel and graphite work together to disperse heat outward and away from your body.
Breathable
With the help of our fabric, air flows through the foam cells to boost the speed of heat transfer through the mattress.
No More Quicksand
Our support layer helps hold you closer to the surface to avoid the oven effect caused by sinking in too deeply.

Support Info

More Cradling And Contouring. Less Motion Transfer.
The Nectar Premier features an innovative memory foam with a higher density than what is found in traditional foam products. The increased density helps provide superior pressure relief for a plush, floaty rest.

Designed to be one type of comfort, we are continuously tweaking the mattress to be universally comfortable for everyone. Our foam supports the natural posture of your spine, relieves back, shoulder, and neck pain and naturally breathes so you don't sleep hot.

Comfort Specs

The top 3-inch layer of gel-infused memory foam with phase-change material (PCM) helps provide temperature regulation while you sleep. (Designed in labs to react to your rising and dropping body temperatures, auto-adjusting to your temperature as you sleep.)

Tuft & Needle Adaptive® Foam
We've engineered a new foam based purely on customer feedback, unparalleled in comfort and support. It's not memory foam or latex. It's Tuft & Needle Adaptive® Foam.

Support Specs

The top memory foam layer helps provide cushioning for the body at its most sensitive areas, like the pressure points. This is often described as the much-loved, traditional "memory foam" feel: softness, cushion, pressure relief, comfort, etc.
The second memory foam layer, or the transition layer, is intended to help provide resistance against the body as you lay down on top of the mattress. If you were to jump onto your mattress, this layer prevents you from feeling the base support layer of foam.
The base support layer is intended to provide solid support for the layers above it. It helps give structure and stability for all of the other components to perform as desired.

Supportive Base Layer
Our custom Tuft & Needle Adaptive® Foam is paired with a high-quality support layer that forms the perfect foundation for our mattress.
Our foam is ideal for sleepers of any size or weight - and this is what makes it unique. The more pressure you put on it, the more it reacts to support you.

Fabric Specs

A soft, breathable poly-blend cover featuring heat wicking, cooling technology. Polyethylene, which is known to help draw heat away from the body, thus providing a slight "cooling sensation" to the touch. Constructed using alternating nylon and polyethylene yarns. These materials are known to provide give, thus promoting and enhancing the benefits of the memory foam layers beneath it.

Our plush Tuft & Needle Original Mattress cover is made with a blend of micro polyamide and polyester. It has a lofty, soft feel which is very pleasant to the touch. Micro Polyamide is commonly used in clothing for men, women, and children as an alternative to cotton that dries 6-8 times faster, helping you sleep cooler, longer. With durability in mind, we've designed a fabric that will last. Our mattress cover fabric is pilling-and tearing-resistant. We ask that customers do not remove our cover at any time, as the cover is not designed to be removed for any reason. The zipper on the bottom of the mattress is for assembly only.
Add antimicrobial protection by HeiQ for an additional $50.

Manufactured in
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Suitability

Side Sleepers
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Back Sleepers
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Size & Weight

Twin
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Twin Dimensions
75 x 38 x 13 "75 x 39 x 10 "
Twin Weight (lb)
5850
Twin XL
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Twin XL Dimensions
80 x 38 x 13 "80 x 39 x 10 "
Twin XL Weight (lb)
6252
Full
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Full Dimensions
75 x 54 x 13 "75 x 54 x 10 "
Full Weight (lb)
8163
Queen
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Queen Dimensions
80 x 60 x 13 "80 x 60 x 10 "
Queen Weight (lb)
9772
King
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King Dimensions
80 x 76 x 13 "80 x 76 x 10 "
King Weight (lb)
12394
Cal King
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Cal King Dimensions
84 x 72 x 13 "84 x 72 x 10 "
Cal King Weight (lb)
12194

Certifications & Sustainability

Certifications
CertiPur-US®
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GREENGUARD Gold
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GREENGUARD Gold
Other Certification Info

Intertek Certified

Delivery

Delivery Cost
FREEFREE
Delivery Info

Enjoy free shipping in the contiguous United States. We will deliver your new mattress right to your front door - fast and convenient! If you decide that you're not in love with your new Nectar Premier mattress, returns are free too!

Ships Free in a Small Box. Shipping times may vary, but most customers in the lower 48 states can expect their new mattress to arrive in 2 to 5 business days from the day they order.

Prices
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