The Nectar Premier is a budget-friendly mattress with a 'Medium' firmness level. This higher-end version of the all-foam Nectar Classic is marketed as a more cooling option. It's an all-foam mattress with a memory foam upper comfort layer and polyfoam transition and support layers.
Our Verdict
The Nectar Premier is best for side sleepers in the average and heavier weight categories. This 'Medium' mattress offers fantastic body conformity for heavier individuals, who will compress it sufficiently to relieve pressure on the arms and shoulders. While its performance isn't quite as good for average people, it's still soft enough that your shoulder will sink in. It offers okay support for average people, which helps keep your spine aligned when side sleeping, but slightly worse support for heavier people. Some heavier side sleepers may want a more supportive mattress, while lighter side sleepers will need a plusher option for proper pressure relief.
Good body conformity for average people.
Fantastic body conformity for heavier people.
Highly contouring upper comfort layer.
Good support for lighter people.
Poor body conformity for lighter people.
The Nectar Premier is best-suited for lighter back sleepers. It's most supportive for people in the lighter weight category, which helps ensure your spine stays aligned. Its highly contouring upper layers also help relieve pressure on your lumbar and lower back. However, it may not offer enough support for average and heavier people. Your hips will sink in further than the rest of your body, especially if you're in the heavier weight category, making it less suitable for back sleeping.
Highly contouring upper comfort layer.
Good support for lighter people.
Not as supportive for average and heavier people.
The Nectar Premier isn't ideal for stomach sleeping for most people. If you're in the average or heavier weight categories, it doesn't offer good support, and your hips may sink in too much. This is especially an issue for individuals who are heavier. However, it does offer good support for lighter individuals, making it a good option for smaller stomach sleepers. Its highly contouring upper comfort layer also helps relieve pressure on your hips.
Highly contouring upper comfort layer.
Good support for lighter people.
Not as supportive for average and heavier people.
The Nectar Premier isn't a durable mattress. Its memory foam comfort layer and polyfoam transition layer are both made of low-quality foam, which is prone to forming permanent indentations sooner than higher-quality foam. That said, the support layer is just dense enough to be considered good quality, which will help it resist sagging for longer than low-quality foam support layers.
Uses mostly low-quality foam.
The Nectar Premier provides good pressure relief for average and heavier people. This 'Medium' mattress offers good body conformity for side sleepers in the average weight category and performs even better here for heavier people, but lighter people will need a plusher mattress for comfortable side sleeping. While the lighter parts of your body won't sink into the upper comfort layer very much, it is very contouring, which creates a slight hugging feel and helps with pressure relief for lighter areas like your knees.
Good body conformity for average people.
Fantastic body conformity for heavier people.
Poor body conformity for lighter people.
The Nectar Premier offers good support for lighter people, which helps ensure your spine is aligned when stomach or back sleeping. Support for people in the average weight category is just okay, and slightly worse for heavier people. This means your hips will sink in further than the rest of your body, making it less suitable for back and stomach sleeping, especially.
Good support for lighter people.
Not as supportive for average and heavier people.
The Nectar Premier mattress offers a great cooling performance. It doesn't feel overly warm when you first get into bed, so if you often feel overheated as you're trying to fall asleep, it's a good option. It continues to dissipate heat efficiently overnight, so you shouldn't wake up boiling hot later on, either. Overall, it's cooling enough for most people, including hot sleepers.
Cooling enough for hot sleepers.
The Nectar Premier mattress offers an excellent motion dissipation performance. You won't feel smaller movements, like a pet jumping onto the foot of the bed. You may feel bigger movements, but only near the source, like in the lumbar area when your partner rolls over. Motion also dissipates very quickly, so you'll feel the initial shock, but not like the mattress is wobbling or bouncing with every little movement.
Excellent motion dissipation, so movement is unlikely to wake you.
The Nectar Premier mattress has excellent responsiveness. It recovers its shape very quickly after being compressed, which helps prevent you from feeling constricted and makes it feel easy to change sleeping positions.
Very responsive, so it feels easy to move around on.
Performance Usages
Changelog
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Updated Dec 12, 2025:
We rewrote portions of the review to align with Test Bench 1.1, including adding text to the new test boxes and for the newly added verdicts. We also modified some of the side-by-side comparisons.
- Updated Dec 12, 2025: We converted this review to Test Bench 1.1. We've added new tests, including Body Conformity, Support, and Comfort Layers Envelopment, and also added scoring to the Bounciness test. Our usage scores have also changed, with new usages 'Side Sleeping,' 'Back Sleeping,' and 'Stomach Sleeping' replacing the 'Sleeping' verdict. We've also added 'Pressure Relief' and 'Support' performance usages. You can find more details in the full changelog.
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Updated Oct 15, 2025:
We rewrote portions of this review to align with Test Bench 1.0.1, which adds a Longevity verdict and a score to the Foam Layer Mass Density box for users interested in the mattress's durability.
- Updated Oct 15, 2025: Converted this review to Test Bench 1.0.1. We've added scoring to the Foam Layer Mass Density section and a new 'Longevity' performance usage. Read more about it in our Changelog.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
The Nectar Premier mattress comes in standard sizes, including Twin, Twin XL, Full, Queen, King, California King, and Split King. It only comes in one firmness level, 'Medium-Firm' on Nectar's scale. Here's our unit's label. This is the all-foam version, and we reviewed the Nectar Premier Hybrid separately.
If you encounter another variant, let us know in the comments, and we'll update our review.
Popular Mattress Comparisons
The Nectar Premier is an all-foam mattress with a 'Medium' firmness. It offers a plusher feel than the Nectar Classic all-foam mattress, and also offers significantly better cooling, so it's a better option for hot sleepers. This responsive mattress feels easier to move around on compared with some memory foam mattresses, such as the Tempur-Pedic TEMPUR-Adapt. It performs very similarly overall to the Nectar Premier Hybrid, which has springs instead of foam for support, with the main difference being its more contouring upper comfort layers and higher responsiveness.
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The Nectar Premier Hybrid and the Nectar Premier perform very similarly. Aside from the design difference, the most notable difference is that the all-foam Premier offers a more responsive feel, making it slightly easier to move around on. The Hybrid's slightly less bouncy and firmer memory foam comfort layer is less contouring, so it doesn't mold around your body as much as the all-foam version's. The Hybrid's foam layers are also made of higher-density foam, which is slightly more durable. However, both mattresses use a mix of good and lower-quality foam.
The Tempur-Pedic TEMPUR-Adapt and the Nectar Premier have different strengths. The Nectar is a much more responsive and bouncy mattress, making it easier to move around on and reducing the likelihood of feeling stuck in place. Its better cooling performance also makes it more suitable for hot sleepers. The Tempur-Pedic is much less responsive, which gives it a slower-moving feel. However, if you don't mind that, the significantly better motion dissipation makes it worth considering for light sleepers.
The Purple Mattress and the Nectar Premier have different strengths. While both are cooling enough for hot sleepers, the Purple has exceptional cooling, so it's worth considering if that's a big priority. On the other hand, the Nectar has significantly better motion isolation, so movement is less likely to wake you. The Nectar has a plusher 'Medium' feel that makes it more suitable for average side sleepers, while also offering better support for average and heavy people. The Purple's firmer feel makes it more supportive for lighter people, however.
The Nectar Premier offers a slightly better sleeping experience than the Novaform Serafina Pearl. The Nectar is a bit more cooling, making it more suitable for hot sleepers, and offers better motion dissipation, so you're less likely to be disturbed by your partner's movements. Its higher responsiveness and bounciness also make it feel easier to move around on. On the other hand, the Novaform has better edge support, which is a plus if you prefer to sleep near the side of the bed, although it doesn't perform exceptionally well in this regard. You'll also sink more deeply into the Novaform's upper layers, so you might prefer it if you want a slightly more enveloping feel.
We've recently started testing mattresses. We use objective data and repeatable testing for key characteristics like firmness, cooling, and motion isolation, to ensure each mattress gets the same treatment. Since we buy all of our mattresses, we can tear them down layer by layer and isolate the mechanical properties of every component: quilted tops, foams, coils, and any special materials. Our approach gives us unprecedented insight into how each product design decision contributes to a mattress's overall performance and feel, and allows us to tailor our results to different body types and sleeping positions.
Test Results
It's a 13" mattress (33 cm). Ours measured a little less at 12.4" (31.6 cm). It can work with standard fitted sheets, but deep-pocket sheets might be a better fit.
It has medium firmness, making it a good option for light back and stomach sleepers and an okay choice for average and heavier side sleepers. You may want a mattress with better body conformity if you're a lighter side sleeper, and heavier and average back and stomach sleepers may need something firmer that offers more support.
This 'Medium' mattress has a fantastic body conformity performance for people in the heavier weight category, whose shoulders will compress it enough to relieve pressure. Its performance is also good for average side sleepers. However, lighter people won't compress it enough for comfortable side sleeping and will likely need a plusher mattress.
This mattress only provides good support for lighter people. If you're in the lighter weight range, your hips will sink in a little more than your lower back or abdomen, but overall, it provides good support for the heavier parts of your body. While it's also fairly supportive for people in the average weight category, back/stomach sleepers in that weight range may find it's not supportive enough for proper alignment. It provides just passable support for heavier individuals, who will likely need a firmer mattress, especially for back and stomach sleeping.
It's decently bouncy. Although it's an all-foam mattress, it doesn't have a lifeless feel. Its moderate bounciness helps make it feel easier to move around on.
The comfort layers are quite enveloping. The upper comfort layer compresses nearly completely without much pressure, so even the lighter parts of you will sink into it. However, its lower layers are firmer, so you don't sink very far. The mattress's upper layers contour closely around you, so most of your body is in contact with the mattress as it molds to your shape, which helps create a more enveloping feel despite its low sinking.
The Nectar Premier is a very responsive mattress. It recovers its shape quickly after being compressed, so you don't feel stuck in place.
It has excellent motion isolation. You'll only feel bigger movements nearby, so you'll feel the initial shock in the lumbar area when your partner rolls over, but you won't feel it around your head or feet. Motion also dissipates very quickly, so while you'll feel the initial shock of movement, you'll never feel like the mattress wobbles with every little motion.
This mattress has mediocre edge support. There's nothing built into the edges for extra support, and they compress significantly when pressure is applied. If you sit on the very edge of the bed, the sides compress and form a ramp outward, which can make you feel at risk of slipping out of bed. This also makes it more difficult to get in and out of bed, especially for people with mobility issues.
It has great cooling. Somewhat surprisingly for an all-foam mattress, it dissipates heat just as efficiently as the Nectar Premier Hybrid, which has a spring support layer. It doesn't feel overly warm when you first get into bed, and it continues to dissipate heat efficiently all night, making it a good option even for hot sleepers.
The cover is made of polyester (87%) and polyethylene (13%), which the manufacturer describes as 'cooling fibers.' Nectar warns not to remove the cover or put it in the washing machine.
There's nothing built into the edges for extra support, and overall, it has mediocre edge support.
The comfort layer is made of memory foam, which is soft and contouring. There's a firmer polyfoam transition layer, which prevents the heavier parts of your body from sinking too far. A firmer layer of polyfoam below provides support.
This mattress uses mostly lower-quality foam. The memory foam upper comfort layer isn't dense enough to be considered good quality, so it's prone to forming indentations sooner compared with higher-quality materials. The polyfoam transition layer is also lower-quality. That said, the support layer polyfoam is just dense enough to be considered good quality, which will help the mattress resist sagging for longer compared with models with lower-quality support layers.
This mattress has a 2 in/5 cm upper comfort layer of memory foam. Since it's only 2 in/5 cm thick, you may compress it completely and also feel the firmer 3 in/7.5 cm polyfoam transition layer. This layer helps distribute your weight over the support layer below and prevents you from feeling that much firmer layer directly.
The memory foam upper comfort layer is soft, and you'll sink into it easily, although you won't feel like you're sinking very far because it's only 2 in/ 5 cm thick. The transition layer is much firmer but will allow the heavier parts of your body to sink into the mattress, such as your shoulder and hip area, for side sleepers. The support layer is very firm, so it provides support and helps prevent the heavier parts of your body from sinking in too far.
The memory foam upper comfort layer has low resilience, or bounciness. It doesn't 'push back' very much when compressed. This is normal for memory foam, which has a sinking feel and contours around your body closely. The other layers are much bouncier, so they offer more push-back and help make the mattress feel easier to move around on.