System JO Gelato Hazelnut Espresso Lube Review

9 out of 10
Price:
£5.95
Brand:
System JO
Materials:
Water

System JO Gelato Hazelnut Espresso Lube Review

By Pleasure Panel reviewer PoisonHyvee

My System JO Gelato Hazelnut Espresso Lube review.

Packaging

The bottle of System JO Gelato Hazelnut Espresso Lube is a small cylinder shaped bottle. The label is elegant with a black background, a silver logo, and pictures of hazelnuts and a latte. It is really pretty and classy and looks great on display by the rest of my lubes.

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Taste

This lube, like most, comes with a freshness seal to preserve it. When I peeled the seal off, the scent of the System JO Gelato Hazelnut Espresso Lube filled the air around me and I knew this was no cheap dollar store gimmick. I had just come back from work at a coffee shop and was hesitant to smell yet more coffee.

System JO Gelato Hazelnut Espresso Lube ReviewBut the System JO Gelato Hazelnut Espresso Lube smells less like freshly brewed coffee and more like a tasty dessert I’d spend the night with. It’s sweet in a way that is a bit syrupy, but the more bitter coffee taste helped to balance it out. The flavor stays in my mouth even after the lube itself is gone, which really helps with longevity and keeping that extra layer of interest going to keep oral sex novel.

I personally do not give oral sex to a penis in my life, but I enjoy receiving them on my strap-ons. However, to test the longevity and taste, I flipped the stage to see how it went. While I can’t speak for how it might work on a flesh penis, it worked excellently on my favorite dildo. The flavor seemed to stay on the surface of the silicone as well as making it feel smoother. As I was experiencing this first time giving a blowjob, I found myself enjoying it a lot more than I ever thought possible. I began to understand why people enjoy giving the eternally famous “enthusiastic blowjob”. Previously, I had experimented with half-trying to see what it might be like to be on the giving end and not found it enjoyable because of the taste and lack of lubrication, but this time it was really fun!

Colour

System JO Gelato Hazelnut Espresso Lube ReviewThe System JO Gelato Hazelnut Espresso Lube has a light brown color, which is far more evident in the bottle than on skin or colored silicone. It looks like iced coffee or flavor syrup behind the counter at a coffee shop!

Ingredients

This System JO Gelato Hazelnut Espresso Lube is water-based, so it’s safe to use with all sex toy and barrier method materials. It also cleans up nicely with water and a bit of soap, and it doesn’t dry into a crust or stain clothes, bed sheets, or other fabrics.

The ingredients of this lube, however, were what made me hesitate to apply it to my own vulva. Specifically, its inclusion of glycerine has me wary. Glycerine is a fairly common lube ingredient, but its effects can be disastrous.

According to Dangerous Lilly, glycerine (as well as an ingredient that this lube does not contain called propylene glycol) “greatly increase[s] the osmolality of the lube (making it a lube to avoid) and both can cause sensitivities (and for some, yeast infections).” The osmolality that Lilly refers to here (as she describes in greater detail in her Lube Guide) is the tendency of a solution to take in the water of the cells that it is applied to. A lubricant with high osmolality takes water from the mucous cells around it, which initially seems to increase the general “wetness”, but then it leaves the cells dried out and therefore vulnerable to sexually transmitted infections and friction injuries.

Use On a Dental Dam

System JO Gelato Hazelnut Espresso Lube ReviewFor this reason, I did not apply the System JO Gelato Hazelnut Espresso Lube to my vulva. I did, however, try it with an unflavored dental dam. While it is a bit inconvenient to have to use two lubes for one sex act (for people who want/need lube between the vulva and dam), it does make the dry polyurethane waaaay tastier. It did last a shorter time on a dam than when it was on silicone or fingers, however.

I did a side-by-side comparison with Sliquid Swirl, though, and it actually seemed to last a bit longer on the dam! This is probably because the dark coffee notes stick in your mouth for a while in the way that light, fruity flavors don’t.

The Bottle

The process of squirting it out was a bit awkward because the stiff plastic of the bottle and the small diameter makes it hard to squeeze. This wasn’t really a problem for me because I could get enough lube out of the bottle to get me started, but if you have arthritis or weak hands or fingers, it might be difficult to do. System JO does produce the System JO Gelato Hazelnut Espresso Lube in a 4oz bottle, which is wider and may be easier to squeeze.

Overall

I would highly recommend the System JO Gelato Hazelnut Espresso Lube for oral sex on a vulva (with a dental dam!) or on a penis or silicone dildo. It helps to initiate oral sex if you’re shy about asking for oral sex or trying to introduce silicone dildos or dental dams into your sex life. This flavor, in particular, is perfect for anyone who likes the idea of flavored lube but not the saccharine flavors. And at $7-$10 for a 1oz bottle, it’s a great way start trying a flavored lube!

8.5/10

– PoisonHyvee


Thanks to Pleasure Panel reviewer PoisonHyvee for this review of the System JO Gelato Hazelnut Espresso Lube.

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This product was sent free of charge, in exchange for a fair and honest review by the Pleasure Panel.

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