Dry Vape Herbs and Herbal Smoking Blends

Everything on this page is dried plant material, sold loose. Here is how to choose between the seventeen and what to do once you have.

Why choose dry herbs over tobacco?

The obvious answer is nicotine, or rather the absence of it, but the more practical one is control. A tobacco blend tastes of tobacco whatever you add to it. A herbal base lets you decide whether the result is floral, savoury or sweet, and lets you change your mind next time. You can vaporize any of these or roll them, and vaporizing has the advantage of heating the material rather than burning it, so you taste the plant instead of the smoke.

Vaporizing chamomile: what to expect

Chamomile comes up more than anything else here, so it is worth being specific. It is a daisy relative in the Asteraceae family, used since ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, and the flavour is soft, hay-like and faintly apple-sweet. It needs a surprisingly high 190 C to give much up, which trips people who assume a gentle-sounding flower wants a gentle setting. The 50 g pack is one of the larger ones in the range, so it doubles as a bulking herb in a blend.

How to build your own herbal blend

Think in three parts. The base is the bulk of the mix and should be mild and voluminous, which is exactly what the 100 g of Gunpowder Tea is for. The supporting herb carries the character you are after, say Hops Flowers or Wild Lettuce. The flavouring goes in last and in pinches, because Thyme, Rosemary and Eucalyptus will bully everything else out of the way if you let them. Grind to a consistent size so it burns or heats evenly, and keep notes, because a blend you cannot reproduce is just a happy accident.

Getting the temperature right

If you are vaporizing rather than smoking, temperature does most of the work. The delicate flowers want it low, around 130 C for Lavender and 140 C for Lemon Balm. The middle of the range sits between 150 and 190 C, which covers Catnip and hops. Chamomile, thyme and Damiana all need roughly 190 C. Our vaping temperature guide has the full breakdown; the short version is to start low and climb, because you cannot undo a scorched bowl.

What you need to vape them

A dry herb device, not an e-liquid one. Convection units push hot air through the material and treat delicate flowers better; conduction units heat the chamber itself and get going faster. If you have not picked one yet, the vaporizers range covers both, and there is CBD vape juice if a liquid suits you better. For pairing ideas, our guides to relaxing and aphrodisiac vape herbs go further than a category page sensibly can.