Overall rating out of 10: 8/10
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Packaging: Bubbler with vac bag, each strain in an individual sealed mylar
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Strain Fidelity: Never had that strain before so no idea
Size of buds: 4/10 These are smalls/popcorn for the most part, biggest bud was around 0.5g, most were half that
Bag Appeal: 7.5/10 Even though they are small, the bud structure is nice and full, covered in hairs, the color is real nice.
Cure & Humidity: 8.5/10 Close to perfect, they still have decent humidity, they are plush and fairly fresh. Looses a point because there was an ever so slight hay smell out of the bag (a boveda would have prevented this). Wouldn't jar this without burping or boveda, the humidity is a tiny bit too high still.
Smell Intensity: 7/10 This isn't a strain that has an outrageous nose. Again, the humidity is a wee bit high so there's a bit of that going on too. Once broken up, the hay smell completely disapeared and left place to a very nice aroma.
Harshness vs Smoothness: 9/10 Very smooth smoke, huge rips don't cause any coughing
Taste Intensity: 8.5/10 Again this isn't a very loud taste, but there is also zero smoke/harshness coming in so you can really taste the terps well. It got better and better the closer I got to the filter as well.
Taste Complexity: 8.5/10 I don't know what it is but this has a very déjà vu feeling for me, I can't quite pin what it tastes like but it's familiar. It's very hard for me to describe the taste, it's unique, as unique as the "cookie taste", or "breath taste", "kush taste", etc. It bears no relation to other popular breath strains (be it in taste, smell or lineage).
Buzz Intensity: 7.5/10 Being a pure sativa, it's definitely not a heavy knocker but it's just right. A good head buzz, minimal body buzz, a chill buzz, reminds me of White Widow, little to no crash, perfect daytime strain.
Price: 129/OZ, currently on sale at 99/OZ
Value: Absolute steal at 99 and still a very good deal at 129. The smallness of the nugs and lack of boveda are it's only downsides.
"A" Scale Rating: AAA+, borderline quad
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Strain Fidelity: Never had either of the parents (ICE x Grapefruit) so not sure!
Size of buds: 6/10 Smallish buds, bigger than the Lamb's Breath but still on the small side
Bag Appeal: 7.5/10 Nice trim and colors, smallish buds take away a lot of the appeal though
Cure & Humidity: 7/10 Tiny bit dry, breaking them open didn't release much more aroma
Smell Intensity: 8/10 Out of the 3 strains this one smelled the loudest and had a nice smell. Breaking it open released a tiny bit more, but barely.
Harshness vs Smoothness: 7/10 Not the smoothest, bigger rips can be a bit hard to hold but it was relatively smooth nonetheless.
Taste Intensity: 8/10 Fairly tasty, but there's this lingering harshness that plays in the background
Taste Complexity: 7/10 The smell had a bit of fruit/citrus which didn't make it much through the smoke, there was a hint of it but not much. It kind of reminds me of a washed out kush, bit of old school hints (pine/skunk/earthy) but ever so faint. Not bad, not amazing.
Buzz Intensity: 9/10 A good solid hybrid buzz, not too sleepy, minimal crash, feels like a sativa leaning well rounded hybrid buzz.
Price: 79/Half OZ
Value: Feels about right, but I didn't really enjoy the taste personally
"A" Scale Rating: AAA
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Strain Fidelity: Has that classic NL nose, so seems fairly accurate
Size of buds: 8/10 Nice big cones, 7g was comprised of 2 buds and a tiny one
Bag Appeal: 8/10 Nice trim, dense nugs, some purple hues in there, good looking, but clearly dry so looses points to that
Cure & Humidity: 6/10 Driest of the pack, I've seen worse, but they are clearly past their prime and the nose suffers
Smell Intensity: 5/10 Drier than weed should ever be, most smell is muted/lost, very subtle aroma
Harshness vs Smoothness: 7/10 Expected harsher due to the dryness but it wasn't so bad. Fairly smooth with a sharpness that annoys in the background.
Taste Intensity: 6/10 Again the dryness got the better of it, not much terps coming through, mostly smokey
Taste Complexity: 6/10 Not much to evaluate, a few puffs did release hints of the NL classic taste (which is kinda hard for me to describe, it's quite unique) but it was so subtle that the experience as a whole was fairly generic
Buzz Intensity: 8/10 Decent buzz. It's supposed to be a pure indica but I always liked the NL buzz, it feels more hybrid than indica, not too sleepy, functional buzz.
Price: 47/quarter
Value: Assuming this would be 130ish/OZ it's about right, but not great value because of the dryness.
"A" Scale Rating: AAA-
Incentive for Customers: Reward/Points system, affiliate system, etc.
Incentive for Review: None
Notes: This pack was won through the Free Weed Friday weekly contest on Nug Nerd's Discord
Either way, good shit.