Mattress Face-Off: Avocado Green vs. Avocado Green Pillowtop
When comparing top-rated mattresses from the same brand, does a pillowtop get you a better mattress?
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Pillowtop or no pillowtop? That’s often the question when you’re weighing a brand’s basic mattress against its more premium version, which adds a cushier layer of material on top and might have implications for the type of sheets you buy to fit: A pillowtop tends to make the mattress several inches taller and several pounds heavier. It might also make the mattress softer.
We brought the Avocado Green Pillowtop (above right) into our mattress lab and decided to test how well it would compare with the brand's flagship model, the Avocado Green mattress.
Specs
Both the Green and the Green Pillowtop are innerspring mattresses with four grips on their sides for easier maneuvering. The Green, $1,400, stands 11 inches tall. The Green Pillowtop, $1,800, stands 2 inches taller than the Green, at 13 inches. (Prices listed are for a queen-size mattress, the size we test.) The Green weighs 119 pounds; the heavier Green Pillowtop weighs 130 pounds.
Both mattresses have an internal section of pocket coils (small coils enveloped in fabric) under a layer of natural latex. The Pillowtop has an additional 2-inch layer of latex for its topper. In our test, the Green has a firmness rating of 7 out of 10 (with 10 being the firmest) and the Green Pillowtop is less firm, with a score of 5.
Sleep Support
In our support tests, we use human subjects of small and large stature to formulate a rating for each. (We also average the results of both to produce a rating for average-sized sleepers.)
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