Nectar Pillow Review UK (2024)

Since the Nectar Whole Night's Sleep pillow is no longer available, let's take a quick look at some of the best alternatives.

The recommendations below are all customisable memory foam pillows, though the Brighrt Eclipse and Emma Premium pillows would be most similar to the Nectar in terms of composition and feel.

The Nectar Whole Night's Sleep pillow comprised three layers of gel-infused memory foam, with a thick and luxurious Tencel cover as its outer shell. 🐚

The thinner middle memory foam layer was a flat piece of foam, sandwiched by two thicker curved memory foam layers.

These may look slightly different, but the composition of each layer was the same, with each offering the typical contouring effect of memory foam with good responsiveness. 🤗

Each memory foam layer was also wrapped in a thin, breathable fabric for extra protection.

The three layers slotted into the quilted pillow cover.

Conveniently, you could adjust the pillow to suit your liking by removing one or two of the memory foam layers.

This used to be quite a unique feature, but luckily, multiple adjustable memory foam pillows similar to the Nectar Pillow are currently on the market, like the Emma Premium Pillow and the Brightr Sleep Eclipse Pillow.

Nectar pillow cover

The Nectar pillow cover (55% Tencel and 45% cotton) was dense, thick, very soft, and felt luxurious and cool to the touch. ❄️

Tencel is a cooling fabric that allows for steady airflow, wicking away heat and moisture and keeping you cool and comfortable all night long.

This is especially beneficial for memory foam pillows, as memory foam is known to retain more heat than other types of foam. 🥵

Of course, the memory foam used in the Nectar pillow was also gel-infused, allowing it to stay much cooler than standard memory foam.

We certainly never felt hot or clammy while sleeping on the Nectar pillow.

Interestingly, the Nectar had a quilted pillow design with a Technofibre (100% polyester) fill.

This gave the pillow a slightly softer and airier feel than you'd get if it had a thinner cover, and the quilted pockets kept the filling evenly spread to avoid lumps.

The Nectar Whole Night's Sleep Pillow looked rather bulky when you first unpacked it - but this was also the pillow's maximum height.

You could take out one or two memory foam layers to customise the pillow to suit your sleeping style.

So, how did you know how many layers to keep?

Let's look at the most common sleeping positions more closely. 👇

Side sleepers

Side sleepers will generally do well on higher loft pillows, and would have kept all three foam layers in the Nectar pillow.

This sufficiently filled the space between neck and mattress, ensuring adequate support.

Of course, your overall body size and the distance from your neck to your shoulders played a significant role here.

If you’re quite petite, for instance, keeping all three layers may have felt a tad uncomfortable. 😩

Consider, for example, the situation of two of our test sleepers.

Both are side sleepers with similar body weights, but one is taller with a broader build and the other shorter with a more petite build.

• The taller sleeper with the wider build slept perfectly well on the high loft pillow.
• The shorter sleeper with the smaller build woke up with neck pain and tension.

The more petite tester slept much better in the side position with just two memory foam layers.

Back sleepers

Sleeping on your back is the healthiest position of all.

To best sleep on your back, you'd need a medium-loft pillow that allows your upper spine to remain in a neutral position. 🦴

If your pillow is too high or too low, your neck will bend up or down, causing unnecessary tension.

For back sleepers, sleeping with two of the three Nectar memory foam layers would have been ideal.

We recommended keeping the middle layer and pairing it with one of the curved layers, but, for a slightly thicker feel, you could have also removed the middle layer and kept the two curved layers.

Stomach sleepers

Sleeping on your stomach isn't great for your neck since, no matter how comfortable your pillow or mattress is, you will always have to be turned to one side to breathe.

This builds up tension and will undoubtedly result in stiffness and neck and upper back pain. 😫

But you can still maximise comfort by choosing the best pillow set-up.

The best pillow for stomach sleepers is flat and firm.

For stomach sleepers, we recommended keeping just one layer of the Nectar pillow.

While you could keep the middle, straight layer, choosing one of the curved layers would probably be more comfortable.

That was the beauty of the Nectar pillow - you could simply combine the layers as you wished to find out what worked best for you.

Do you need more adjustability?

Height-adjustable pillows with memory foam layers, like the Nectar pillow, are great for a fuss-free approach to sleeping.

But you can also find loose shredded memory foam pillows, like the Simba Hybrid Pillow or the Aeyla FOAMO pillow, which allow for more tailored customisations as you can take out handfuls of foam instead of a whole layer. 📏

If you’re struggling to find the perfect pillow, looking at shredded foam could be the solution.

But note that not all shredded foam pillows are adjustable.

MyPillow UK, for example, also features shredded memory foam, but you can't adjust the fill yourself, and the Brightr Luna has its shredded memory foam in fabric pockets that can only be adjusted as full layers.

Adjustable shredded memory foam pillows:

The Nectar Whole Night’s Sleep pillow measured 60 x 40 cm (23.6 inches x 15.7 inches), which is pretty on par with other standard UK pillows. 🇬🇧

The pillow had a maximum height of 14 cm (5.5 inches), but, of course, the exact loft depended on how many layers of memory foam you kept in the pillow.

The Nectar adjustable pillow was an excellent choice, and we recommended it to:

• Side, back, and stomach sleepers.
• People who enjoy firm and supportive pillows.
• Sleepers looking for a pillow with excellent breathability.
• People looking for a high-quality pillow made of good materials.

Unfortunately, the pillow is no longer available, so you'll have to try some of our most loved alternatives instead.

Our favourite UK customisable memory foam pillows: