30-Second Verdict
The Relict wins — 8.0 to 7.3 — and the £28 it costs extra buys you, more than anything else, the rest of the evening. Same German workshop, same glass-first convictions, two different answers to the question of how far from the house you intend to get. One disappears into a going-out jacket. The other is still going at eleven o'clock.
Nordampf Hammah: 7.3/10 | £80.99 Nordampf Relict: 8.0/10 | £108.99
Buy the Hammah if: - Pocket presence is the whole brief — 85.2g, 90mm, barely an AirPods case - You want the GlassPod system: medical-grade borosilicate between herb and lips, swappable glass or steel, short or long - Your sessions are short and deliberate — 0.15–0.2g at a time, three or four draws, done - You want glass-path flavour without paying the PAX tax
Buy the Relict if: - You want an evening, not a commute — 2600mAh and 7–10 sessions against 1600mAh and 4–6 - Intellisense appeals: airflow sensors that boost the heater the moment you inhale, so technique stops mattering - You want a 0.3g bowl, 1°C control from 160–240°C, and a 45mm glass mouthpiece - You use a bong — 14/18mm adapter, and the OLED flips itself when you invert it
Quick Specs Face-Off:
| Nordampf Hammah | Nordampf Relict | |
|---|---|---|
| Heat-up | ~30 seconds | 25–30 seconds |
| Battery | 1600mAh sealed, 4–6 sessions, ~2h charge | 2600mAh sealed, 7–10 sessions, ~2h charge |
| Bowl | ~0.15–0.2g GlassPod | ~0.3g stainless dosing capsule |
| Weight | 85.2g / 90mm | 138g |
| Temperature | 180–220°C, 5 presets (degree steps via double-click) | 160–240°C, 1°C increments, OLED |
| Warranty | Standard Nordampf | Standard (~2 years) |
| Price | £80.99 | £108.99 |
The Hook
There are two ways to sleep away from your own house, and the people who do one rarely understand the people who do the other.
The first is a one-man tent. It packs down to something you carry without noticing, and it goes places nothing with wheels will ever reach — a ridge, a wood, the bit of the field the van can't get to. What it does not have is a kettle, a mattress, or a second night in it before you start dreaming about your own bed. You are up at first light whether you like it or not, and you've made peace with that, because the point of a tent is that it came with you.
The second is a campervan. Everything is built in: power, a bed you'd actually choose, a socket, and a door you close when the weather turns. It is genuinely the better place to be. It is also 1.4 tonnes of the better place to be, it needs somewhere to park, and it has never once been carried up a hill.
The Nordampf Hammah is the one-man tent. The Nordampf Relict is the campervan. Same manufacturer, same convictions about glass, entirely different relationship with the front door.
Both reviews gave these two their own metaphors — flask of tea, Weber BBQ — and those still hold inside each device's own story. What matters here is simpler: one weighs 85.2 grams, and one lasts. The Hammah's review said so itself, unprompted, in the bit about when Dennis doesn't reach for it: for longer evenings, the Relict has the stamina.
One of them scores higher. It's the van. Here's why I still own a tent.
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Vapour Quality
Winner: Relict — 8.0/10 to 7.5/10. Half a point, and it is earned by the two things a bigger body allows: a bigger bowl and an active sensor.
Both are hybrids, both put borosilicate in the vapour path, and both reviews spent this section arguing the glass is the point rather than the garnish. The difference is where the glass sits. The Hammah lines the bowl — the GlassPod is the chamber, not a mouthpiece bolted onto one, and at 190°C the review's finding was that the glass adds nothing at all: no taste, no warmth, no contamination. The Relict lines the exit — 45mm of borosilicate, long enough to do real cooling work, over a dual heater firing from base and sides at once. One lines the bowl; the other lines the exit. Both are right.
Where the Relict pulls ahead is density and duration. Intellisense detects the inhale and boosts the element mid-draw, and its review was unambiguous that this isn't marketing: measurably denser draws than the same temperature on a passive device, with later draws holding density instead of tailing off. At 190°C that's five consistent draws from a 0.3g capsule. The Hammah at 200°C gives three or four with excellent character from a pod a third smaller — and then it's finished, and the session timer has probably finished too.
Its counter-argument is concentration rather than quantity: less herb means more flavour density per draw, and that's genuinely how it feels. Three excellent draws is not nothing. It's just not five.
The Strain Test, Side by Side
Honesty first, because it changes what this section can claim: these two were not run on the same jars. The Hammah went through Biscotti Mintz and Tilray Pakistan Chitral Kush T18; the Relict went through Motorbreath and Rokshaw T20. No shared control, so anyone selling you a like-for-like flavour verdict here is selling you something. What I can do is line up the tests asking the same question — how does the device hold a fragile terpene, and how does it handle a heavy resinous one — and read across.
The fragile test. Both got a strain whose best notes die first, and both reviews landed on the same word: intact. The Hammah's Biscotti Mintz at 185°C through the long GlassPod produced two draws of pure mint-cookie interplay, and the review's own line was that the glass path preserves layering plastic and steel compress into one note. The Relict's Rokshaw T20 at 168°C is the harder exam — terpinolene is the most volatile terpene there is, and the review put a hard edge on it: 168°C captures it, 175°C begins to degrade it, and the 1°C control is what makes that a decision rather than an accident. Two draws of it, and a claim I'd stand behind — nothing under £150 has preserved terpinolene better. The Hammah protects delicate terps by keeping the path short and the load small; the Relict protects them by letting you park seven degrees below the cliff edge. The theory behind that is all in the temperature guide.
The heavy test. The Hammah's Pakistan Chitral Kush is a landrace indica — simple, direct, hash-like, old-world flavour that any plastic taint would ruin, which is exactly why the GlassPod suits it. Pine first at 180°C with what the review called forest-floor clarity, hash body filling the room at 195°C across three draws, then one deep sedating draw at 215°C and the pod was gone. The Relict's Motorbreath is the other kind of heavy: 24–28% THC, dense, resinous, the sort of flower that clogs cheap airpaths. It didn't clog this one — three draws of diesel at 175°C, four at 190°C as the limonene lifted, two more at 210°C to clear. Nine draws to the Hammah's six. On resinous flower the Relict doesn't taste better so much as it keeps going, which on a 0.3g load is most of what "better" means.
The call: neither embarrasses the other on flavour, and both earn their glass. The Hammah wins the first two draws of anything delicate; the Relict wins everything after draw four and the whole category of flower that fights back. If your ceiling is a micro-dose, the tent is pitched exactly where you need it. If your session has a middle as well as a beginning, you want the van.
Design & Build
Winner: Relict — 8.0/10 to 7.5/10, and the two objects could not be less alike.
The Hammah is 85.2 grams of synthetic leather over stainless steel and glass, and the leather is what people notice first — warm in the hand, distinctive in a market of anodised pebbles, an accessory rather than a gadget. Sarah clocked the material before anything else about it, which is in the review and remains the most efficient product testing done on this site. The GlassPod system is the engineering centrepiece: magnetic swap, glass or steel, short or long, borosilicate thick enough to survive a table drop — as Jake demonstrated involuntarily.
The Relict is 138g of anodised aluminium cylinder with an auto-rotating OLED and a 45mm glass mouthpiece, and it reads as a device built by people who'd reviewed several hundred devices and were quietly furious about all of them. The mouthpiece is that long because short ones compromise flavour. The screen flips because they know people invert vapes into bongs. The capsules are steel because plastic ones taint. Every decision has a grudge behind it.
Both have the same obvious vulnerability: borosilicate. Pods on one, mouthpiece on the other, each survived a fall in testing, each wants a spare in the drawer. Nordampf's build philosophy is "put glass where it matters and accept the consequences," and I'd take that over the alternative.
Battery & Charging
Winner: Relict, and this is the widest gap on the card — 7.5/10 to 5.5/10.
1600mAh against 2600mAh; 4–6 sessions against 7–10. Both take about two hours over USB-C, both sealed, neither swappable. The Hammah's review didn't dress it up: a moderate user gets an evening, a heavy user gets half of one. The 3–4.5 minute timer preserves charge, but it also cuts off slow sippers and charges them 30 seconds to restart — the same limitation arriving twice.
The Relict's 2600mAh feeds a bigger bowl and an active sensor — Intellisense costs power, the review said so — and still gets through a heavy evening and then some, or two days at a moderate pace.
£28 buys you the evening. That's the cleanest way to state the gap between these two, and it's the single number that decides the match.
Ease of Use
Winner: Relict — 8.0/10 to 7.0/10.
The Hammah's five presets — 180, 190, 200, 210, 220 — are genuinely intuitive, and magnetic pod loading is one of the more satisfying interactions in the budget bracket: grind, fill, clip, done. The penalty is the double-click. Degree-by-degree adjustment inside a preset range works perfectly well once you've read the manual, and the review's verdict on that stands: nobody reads the manual. Stick to the presets and it costs you nothing.
The Relict removes a variable instead of adding one. Intellisense reads your draw speed and matches the heater to it — draw harder, it heats more; draw slower, it eases off — so the technique lesson every other portable makes you sit through simply doesn't happen. First-timers get dense vapour without instruction, and the three-button interface and OLED do the rest.
Its one honest annoyance is a 30-second patience window at low temperatures while the conduction plate spreads heat. That's a wait. It is not a lesson.
Cleaning & Maintenance
Winner: Hammah — 8.0/10 to 7.0/10. First of only two categories it takes, and it takes this one properly.
The GlassPod is the best cleaning idea either device has. The pod is the chamber, the pod comes out, the pod soaks in ISO, and because glass is non-porous the residue never embeds. Buy a second set and rotate: vape from a clean pod while the dirty one sits in the jar, and you never wait on maintenance. The main chamber stays pristine because almost nothing reaches it.
The Relict's capsules do most of the same job — buildup stays out of the chamber, the glass mouthpiece pops off and soaks beautifully, the steel chamber brushes out. But the airpath isn't fully accessible, which is where the point goes; its own review conceded that rather than pretending.
Neither is hard work. One is close to zero.
Portability
Winner: Hammah — 9.5/10 to 7.5/10, and it is not a contest.
85.2 grams. 90mm. Barely bigger than an AirPods case, no visible bulge in a going-out jacket, doesn't snag on fabric, and from any distance it reads as a power bank rather than a vaporiser. It's lighter than a PAX Mini 2 while running hybrid heating rather than conduction, which is why the review scored this at 9.5 and meant it.
The Relict is 138g of slim cylinder — properly pocketable in a jacket, fine in trousers, but the glass mouthpiece protrudes and wants a cap before it goes anywhere. Stealth is moderate rather than good.
This is the category the campervan can never win, because the tent's entire argument is that it came with you.
Value for Money
Winner: Relict — 8.5/10 to 7.5/10, and the £28 runs the same direction as the score, which is what makes this an easy article to write and a slightly sad one for the Hammah.
£108.99 buys Intellisense, dual heating, a 45mm glass mouthpiece, 1°C control across an 80-degree range, steel capsules, a bong adapter, an OLED that flips itself, and a battery that doesn't need managing. Nothing else at the price does draw-detection at all.
£80.99 buys the GlassPod system, hybrid heating in 85.2 grams, and the leather. Its review made the value case against the PAX Mini 2 and won it comfortably — £28.01 less, 3.8g lighter, better extraction. Against its own big brother the case is thinner, because the Relict isn't charging a brand premium; it's charging for parts you can list.
The Hammah's value is real but conditional: excellent if pocket carry is a requirement. If it isn't, you're paying £80.99 to be limited.
Score Comparison
| Category | Nordampf Hammah | Nordampf Relict |
|---|---|---|
| Vapour Quality | 7.5/10 | 8.0/10 |
| Design & Build | 7.5/10 | 8.0/10 |
| Battery & Charging | 5.5/10 | 7.5/10 |
| Ease of Use | 7.0/10 | 8.0/10 |
| Cleaning & Maintenance | 8.0/10 | 7.0/10 |
| Portability | 9.5/10 | 7.5/10 |
| Value for Money | 7.5/10 | 8.5/10 |
| Overall | 7.3/10 | 8.0/10 |
Five categories to two, and the two the Hammah wins are the two that come from being small — a pod that lifts out to be cleaned, and a body that vanishes. Everything that comes from having room inside goes the other way. That's why the overall gap is 0.7 rather than the 2.0 the battery row implies on its own. How these numbers get arrived at is on the methodology page.
Who Should Buy Which
Buy the Hammah if the pocket is the requirement rather than the preference. You're going out, you want glass-path vapour when you get there, and every gram is a decision. Micro-dosing suits you — 0.15g, three or four draws, no session to commit to. You like choosing your pod by errand: long glass at home for cooling, short glass out, steel when you're handing it to someone careless. And you're honest that this is a second device, because at 4–6 sessions and a 4.5-minute timer it cannot be a daily driver, and its own review said so.
Buy the Relict if you want one portable that handles the whole evening. Density without technique, a bowl big enough to be a session rather than a top-up, control fine enough to sit at 168°C on purpose. You use a water pipe, or you're going to. And you're comfortable being an early adopter of a brand founded in 2024 with no long-term reliability record — a real risk, flagged in its own review alongside the fact that Nordampf's founders also run the review site that scored Nordampf products highly. My week with it was independent. Five years of data doesn't exist yet for anyone.
The wrong buyer for the Hammah is a heavy or all-day vaper — that's not a criticism, it's printed on the tin. The wrong buyer for the Relict is someone who needs it to disappear.
How I Actually Choose
It's the front door, and it has been since the second week.
The Hammah goes out. Dinners, mates' houses, anywhere the alternative is bringing nothing — 195°C preset, 0.15g in the long glass pod, one full session, home before it needs charging. It's never been the device I planned an evening around. It's frequently the device I was glad I'd pocketed.
The Relict stays in. 185°C, a pre-packed steel capsule, four to six draws, and increasingly through the bong adapter, because Intellisense-boosted vapour through water is the version of the Relict that made Tom whisper at a screen (his week with it is in the review; yes, he's fine). It's the one I reach for when I want to stop thinking about draw speed, which on a bad pain day is most of the value of the thing.
Mum came round in July and I made the tactical error of leaving both on the kitchen table. She'd met them separately — she liked how light the Hammah was, and she was delighted that the Relict tells you when it's ready — but side by side she looked at them, then at me, and said: "Why have you got the small one and the big one?" I said they do different jobs. She said: "That's what your father said about the tent."
He still has the tent. The van does more.
The Verdict (The Bookend)
Nobody who owns a tent and a campervan thinks they own two of the same thing.
The van is the better place to be, and the Relict is the better vaporiser: 8.0 to 7.3, five categories to two, denser vapour, an evening of battery instead of half of one, and a sensor that does your technique for you — all for £28. If you're buying one Nordampf and you haven't got a specific reason to want the small one, buy the Relict. It isn't close.
But the tent keeps going up, because the tent gets carried. The Hammah is 85.2 grams with medical-grade glass around the bowl, and it fits in a pocket that has rejected every other vaporiser in this house. No score fixes a jacket. If that's the reason you're reading this, the 7.3 was never going to talk you out of it, and it shouldn't.
The van for the evening. The tent for where the van can't park. If the budget stretches to one — buy the van, and accept that some nights you'll simply be at home.
Just one more bowl.
FAQ
Nordampf Hammah vs Nordampf Relict — which should I buy? The Relict for most people: it scores higher (8.0 vs 7.3), wins five categories of seven, and its 2600mAh battery does 7–10 sessions against the Hammah's 4–6. It costs £28 more (£108.99 vs £80.99). Buy the Hammah only if genuine pocket carry — 85.2g, no bulge, goes everywhere — is a requirement rather than a nice-to-have.
What's the actual difference between a GlassPod and a glass mouthpiece? Position. The Hammah's GlassPod is the bowl — your herb sits inside borosilicate, and the pod lifts out to be cleaned or swapped for steel, short or long. The Relict's 45mm borosilicate is the mouthpiece, cooling and purifying on the way out of a steel chamber. Both keep plastic out of the path; the Hammah's approach also makes cleaning trivial, which is why it wins that category.
Does Intellisense actually make a difference, or is it a spec-sheet feature? It makes a difference. The sensor detects airflow and boosts the heater mid-inhale — measurably denser draws than the same temperature on a passive device, most obviously in the back half of a session, where the Relict holds density instead of tailing off. It also means beginners get good vapour without being taught draw technique. Its cost is battery.
Which one lasts longer between charges? The Relict, comfortably: 2600mAh and 7–10 sessions against 1600mAh and 4–6. Both charge over USB-C in about two hours, neither has a swappable cell. The Hammah's 3–4.5 minute timer preserves charge but caps individual sessions, and a re-heat costs another 30 seconds.
Can I use either with a bong? The Relict, yes — 14/18mm adapter compatibility is designed in, the OLED auto-rotates when you invert it, and the Intellisense-boosted vapour is at its best through water. The Hammah has no bong provision; water pipes are not its brief.
Is the Hammah's battery a dealbreaker? Only if it's your only vape. As a going-out device it's sufficient — a session or two, out and back. As a daily driver it isn't, and its own review scored the category accordingly and named the Relict as the one with the stamina.
Should I be worried that Nordampf is a new brand? It's a genuine risk on both. Founded in 2024 by the team behind Germany's biggest vape review portal, who then scored their own products highly — I can't verify that impartiality and neither can you. What's verifiable is a week of hard use each: both performed. Replacement-part supply is the thinner ice, particularly Hammah GlassPods. Buy a spare set on day one either way.
About Dennis M.
Dennis M. has been reviewing vaporisers and vaping daily for the best part of a decade. He works in IT, has ADHD, and uses cannabis for chronic pain management. He lives in Manchester with his partner Sarah, who has noticed that the two smallest vaporisers in the house are now the two that leave it.
Dennis has been camping four times in fifteen years and has never owned a campervan. He would like it noted that this does not weaken the metaphor, and that he has thought about it more than is reasonable.
A note on spelling: 'vaporizer' is the de facto international spelling, but I've stuck with the British 'vaporiser' throughout this blog.
Questions, corrections, or a device you want tested? dennis@herbvape.co.uk
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Nordampf Hammah — £80.99 Buy the Nordampf Hammah → Worth grabbing with it: a spare set of GlassPods, in glass and steel. Rotate them — vape from a clean pod while the dirty one soaks.
Nordampf Relict — £108.99 Buy the Nordampf Relict → Worth grabbing with it: extra dosing capsules. Pre-load a week's worth and the chamber stays clean by default.
Just one more bowl.
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Strains Used: this pairing has no shared control jar, and I've said so in the strain section rather than pretending otherwise. The Hammah was tested on Biscotti Mintz (indica-lean hybrid, ~25–30% THC, caryophyllene/limonene/linalool/myrcene, minty cookie dough over diesel and earth) and Tilray Pakistan Chitral Kush T18 (pure indica landrace, ~18% THC, <1% CBD, myrcene-dominant, earthy and hash-like with pine). The Relict was tested on Motorbreath (70/30 indica-dominant, ~24–28% THC, caryophyllene-dominant, diesel and chemical over a lemon undertone) and Rokshaw T20 (sativa-dominant, ~20% THC, <1% CBD, terpinolene-dominant, herbal and piney). Both sets were legal medical-grade samples obtained via UK clinical access. Strain effects vary by individual, batch and consumption method.
Medical & Legal Disclaimer: Nothing in this comparison constitutes medical advice, and I am not a medical professional. Cannabis is a controlled substance in the UK; medical cannabis is legal only on prescription from a registered specialist clinic. HerbVape.co.uk sells vaporiser hardware only: we do not sell, prescribe, or recommend cannabis or cannabis products. Vaporisers are sold for use with legal dry herbs and legally prescribed medical cannabis. You must be 18 or over to buy one, and cannabis law varies by jurisdiction — check yours.
Last updated: 26 August 2026.