The Novaform Serafina Pearl is a budget-friendly all-foam mattress with an upper comfort layer of memory foam. The manufacturer markets it as a cooling option, advertising 'ComfortLuxe Gel-Pearls' which help with heat dissipation.
The 'Plush' variant offers medium firmness, making it suitable for most side sleepers as well as lighter back and stomach sleepers. It likely won't offer enough support for average and heavier back and stomach sleepers, while lighter side sleepers may want a plusher option for pressure relief. You sink moderately into it, but it doesn't contour around you very closely, which creates a slightly enveloping, cradling feeling. It's quite responsive, so it adapts quickly to your movements, but its lack of bounce gives it a static feel that makes it a bit more difficult to change sleeping positions.
Our Verdict
The Novaform Serafina Pearl offers a good sleeping experience. It's a good option if you sleep with a partner, since its great motion isolation performance helps prevent movement from waking you. This all-foam mattress has good responsiveness. While it doesn't have a springy feel or push back instantly against movements, it doesn't feel like moving around in quicksand, despite the memory foam upper comfort layer. It's not quite cooling enough for hot sleepers, but it dissipates enough heat for most people. Unfortunately, edge support is a weak point, so it's not very comfortable to sleep right near the edge of the mattress.
Good responsiveness, so you don't feel stuck in place.
Great motion isolation, so movements are unlikely to wake you.
Cooling enough for most people.
Good firmness for lighter and average side sleepers.
Uses mostly dense foams which will resist sagging for longer compared with lower density foams.
Edge support is just passable, reducing the comfortable sleeping space.
Too firm for lighter side-sleepers.
Not firm enough for many back and stomach sleepers.
The Novaform Serafina Pearl has very good cooling. It feels quite cool when you first get into bed and continues to dissipate heat efficiently all night. It's cooling enough for most people. However, if you often sleep hot, you may want to look for an option with slightly better cooling.
Cooling enough for most people.
Not quite cooling enough for hot sleepers.
The Novaform Serafina Pearl has great motion dissipation. Unsurprisingly for an all-foam, memory foam mattress, it does a great job of isolating movements. While you'll feel bigger movements near the source, like in the lumbar area when your partner rolls over, you won't feel it around your head. Motion also dissipates quickly, so it doesn't feel like your mattress wobbles around whenever someone moves, and motion is less likely to wake you up.
Great motion isolation, so movements are unlikely to wake you.
The Novaform Serafina Pearl has passable edge support. There's nothing built into the edges for support, and they sink quite a bit when you sit on the side. If you need a solid surface for getting in and out of bed, it's not ideal. You can also feel at risk of sliding out of bed when sleeping near the edge, although it's not as extreme as with some other mattresses with worse edge support.
Edge support is just passable, reducing the comfortable sleeping space.
The Novaform Serafina Pearl has good responsiveness. Its upper comfort layer is made of memory foam, and it doesn't respond as quickly as many mattresses that use other materials. While it doesn't spring back or push back against your movements instantly, it's responsive enough that you don't feel constricted or stuck in place.
Good responsiveness, so you don't feel stuck in place.
The Novaform Serafina Pearl is a moderately durable mattress. It uses dense, good-quality foams that will resist sagging and forming permanent indentations for longer compared with lower-quality materials. The transition layer, in particular, is made of durable, high-quality polyfoam. However, the other layers, including the memory foam comfort layer and polyfoam support layer, aren't quite as durable and just meet the standard for good-quality foam.
Uses mostly dense foams which will resist sagging for longer compared with lower density foams.
Performance Usages
Changelog
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Updated Oct 06, 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 06, 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.
- Updated Sep 12, 2025: Review published.
- Updated Sep 08, 2025: Early access published.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
The Novaform 14" Serafina Pearl Gel memory foam mattress comes in 'Plush,' 'Medium,' and 'Firm,' and in King or Queen sizes. Our unit is a Queen-sized 'Plush' variant, and you can see our unit's label.
If you have the Novaform or another variant, we invite you to share your experience in the comments.
Popular Mattress Comparisons
The Novaform Serafina Pearl is an all-foam mattress with a memory foam upper comfort layer. It offers a more responsive feel than many mattresses with a similar design, like the Tempur-Pedic TEMPUR-Adapt or the Novaform ComfortGrande Plus, so you're less likely to feel stuck in place. It has great motion isolation, making it a good option for sleeping with a partner. While it's not quite cooling enough for hot sleepers, it won't make most people feel overheated. Non-memory foam mattresses like the Purple Mattress or the Sleep On Latex Pure Green Organic are better options for hot sleepers.
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The Novaform ComfortGrande Plus is better than the Novaform Serafina Pearl for most people. The ComfortGrande offers better motion dissipation and edge support with a similar cooling performance. That said, the Serafina is a slightly plusher 'Medium' mattress with a more responsive feel that makes it feel easier to move around in your sleep.
The Novaform Serafina Pearl is better than the Tempur-Pedic TEMPUR-Adapt for most people. Both are all-foam mattresses with medium firmness, but the Novaform is more responsive, so it's easier to move around in your sleep, and slightly more cooling. The Tempur-Pedic has significantly better motion dissipation, however.
The Novaform Serafina Pearl is better for most people than the Nectar Classic. The Novaform is much more cooling, so it can keep most people comfortable, and it's much more responsive, so it's easier to move around in your sleep. Its edge support is also better. The Nectar Classic is a firmer mattress, however.
The Casper Snow is better than the Novaform Serafina Pearl for most people. The Casper offers much better motion isolation and cooling, so it's better for light sleepers and hot sleepers. That said, the Novaform has better edge support and a more responsive feel, so you're less likely to feel stuck in place.
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
The Novaform Serafina Pearl is a 14" (35.6 cm) mattress (ours measured a little more at 14.1"/35.8 cm), so you may need to use deep-pocket fitted sheets.
The Novaform Serafina Pearl has a medium firmness level, making it a good option for average and heavier side sleepers as well as some lighter back and stomach sleepers. Lighter side-sleepers may want something plusher for pressure relief around the shoulder area, while most back and stomach sleepers will want a bit more firmness for proper spinal alignment.
This mattress is hardly bouncy at all. Its all-foam construction and memory foam layers dampen movement, which creates a static feel that makes moving around in your sleep feel more difficult.
You sink moderately into the mattress, and its upper layers don't contour your body very closely. This creates a feeling of being slightly enveloped and cradled, but not hugged or held in place.
The Novaform Serafina Pearl has good responsiveness. While it doesn't respond instantly to your movements, it regains its shape quite quickly after being compressed. It's easy to move around, and you don't feel stuck in place, especially compared with other memory foam mattresses such as the Novaform ComfortGrande Plus.
The Novaform Serafina Pearl has great motion isolation. You're likely to feel movements near the source, so if your pet jumps onto the foot of the bed, you'll feel it around your feet. However, it excels at keeping motion localized, so you're unlikely to feel movements across the mattress. When your partner rolls over, you'll feel it in the lumbar area but not around your head. Motion also dissipates quickly, making movement less likely to wake you up.
It has passable edge support. The sides of the mattress compress quite a bit when you sit or sleep near the edge, forming a ramp outwards. You may feel at risk of sliding off if you sleep near the side of the mattress, and it's more difficult to get in and out of bed, especially for people with mobility issues.
The Novaform Serafina Pearl has very good cooling. It feels quite cool when you first get into bed, and it dissipates heat well overnight as well. While persistently hot sleepers will probably need something with better cooling, its performance is good enough to keep most people comfortable.
The Novaform 14" (35.6 cm) Serafina Pearl Gel memory foam mattress's cover is made of a blend of polyester (71%), nylon (18%) and polyethylene (11%). It has a zipper, but the manufacturer warns not to remove it.
There's nothing built into the edge for support, and its edge support is only passable, so it's not ideal if you're looking to maximize the comfortable sleeping surface or need a solid surface to push off from when getting in and out of bed.
This all-foam mattress has an upper comfort layer of memory foam, which is a contouring, slow-moving material. Egg-crate polyfoam makes up the transition layer. This layer is quite soft, so if you compress the memory foam layer, you'll sink into it as well. There's a layer of firmer polyfoam for support, which helps keep the heavier parts of your body from sinking further.
This mattress's foam layers are all made of good-quality foam. The transition layer is particularly dense, high-quality polyfoam that will help the mattress last longer compared with less dense polyfoam. The memory foam upper comfort layer and polyfoam support layer aren't high-quality, but are dense enough to be considered good quality. These layers will resist sagging and forming permanent impressions for longer compared with lower-quality foams.
The upper layer is 7.3 cm (2.9") of memory foam. If you compress it fully, you'll also feel the 7.5 cm (3.0") layer of egg-crate polyfoam, which is also quite soft. The 21.0 cm (8.3") polyfoam support layer is firmer and prevents you from sinking in overly far.
The upper comfort layer is soft, so you sink into it quite easily. The egg-crate foam below is only slightly firmer, so you'll sink into it as well if you compress the memory foam above. The support layer is firm, so it prevents you from sinking in too far or 'bottoming out.' That said, it's not as firm as some other mattresses' support layers, like the Novaform ComfortGrande Plus's, and people who compress both upper layers may sink into it further.
The memory foam upper comfort layer has very low resilience, or bounce. This is normal for the material, which doesn't 'push back' but rather sinks and contours around you. The egg-crate polyfoam layer also has low resilience for polyfoam. These non-bouncy layers help explain the mattress's low overall bounciness and static feel. The support layer is much more resilient, however, so it'll 'push back' more against pressure.
The transition layer and support layers were effectively fused together and difficult to separate. We used the best sample possible, but this is why the transition layer foam looks damaged in the video.