Flavor family
8 more generations
Parents
Sources name different parents — 3 versions recorded.
VERSION 1 · 2 SOURCES
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- Version 2 · 2 sources — Girl Scout Cookies (GSC) × Fire OG
- Version 3 · 1 source — Animal Mints
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Animal Cookies
aka animal crackers, animal cookie
Cookies/Bakery10 back12 forward
Ancestor of 2018 strains
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Disputed lineage
At least one parent for this strain is contested — sources disagree on its lineage.
- Seed Junky Genetics's page also names "Animal Cookies" as a co-parent; that name resolves to this strain itself and is not shown as a separate parent.
Children
- Apple Fritterhybrid24 children ›
- Girl Scout Cookies (GSC)hybrid117 children ›
- Animal Mintshybrid39 children ›
- Zazahybrid1 child ›
- Zookieshybrid2 children ›
- Animal Tsunamihybrid1 child ›
- Jungle Juicehybrid
- Animal Cakehybrid
- Animal Mint Cakehybrid1 child ›
- Cherry Garciahybrid1 child ›
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- Garanimalshybrid1 child ›
- Nitro Cookieshybrid2 children ›
- Cement Shoeshybrid1 child ›
- Strawberry Cookieshybrid1 child ›
- Sugar Biscuitshybrid
- Fruitcakehybrid
- G.O.A.T.hybrid
- Rainbow Cookieshybrid
- Midnight Snackhybrid
- Funfettihybrid1 child ›
- Sticky Ickyhybrid
- Animal Star Cookieshybrid
- Animal Grapeshybrid
- Animal Gashybrid
- Animal Sherberthybrid
- Pumpkin Spicehybrid
- Reckless Rainbowhybrid1 child ›
- Kmachybrid
- Animal Landhybrid
- Animal Mints #15hybrid1 child ›
- Animal Sherbhybrid
- Crystal Cookieshybrid1 child ›
- Demon OGhybrid
- Five Sevenhybrid
- Frank Bank OGhybrid
- Gingerbread Manhybrid
- Helen Back Pinesiclehybrid
- Melon Barhybrid
1,998 more descendants
Aroma profile
| Citrus | −1.0 |
|---|---|
| Candy Sweetness | −0.6 |
| Dark Fruit | −1.4 |
| Floral | −0.6 |
| Herbaceous | −0.5 |
| Earth | +0.7 |
| Funk | −0.2 |
| Gas | −1.0 |
| Dessert & Cream | +0.8 |
What the axes mean
- Citrus
- Bright peel and juice: lemon, lime, orange, grapefruit. Often driven by limonene, the same compound that makes citrus rind smell like citrus rind.
- Candy Sweetness
- Confection rather than fruit: sugar, tropical brightness, an almost artificial sweetness. Ester-driven, and the register modern dessert-lineage breeding has pushed hardest.
- Dark Fruit
- Deep and jammy: grape, blueberry, plum, berry. Comes from esters rather than terpenes, which is why two strains can share a terpene profile and taste nothing alike.
- Floral
- Blossom and petal: lavender, rose, violet. Linalool sits behind much of this; it is what makes lavender smell like lavender, and it turns up in cannabis more often than people expect.
- Herbaceous
- Green, leafy and cooling: sage, tea, mint, cracked pepper. Pinene and terpinolene drive the fresh green edge; the peppery bite is caryophyllene, the only terpene known to bind directly to a cannabinoid receptor.
- Earth
- Soil, forest floor, bark and pine. Myrcene and humulene do most of the work here — humulene is the same compound that makes hops smell like hops.
- Funk
- Sour, savory, barnyard: skunk, aged cheese, pungency. Like Gas, this is sulfur chemistry rather than terpenes, which is why it survives drying and curing so stubbornly.
- Gas
- Fuel and solvent: diesel, chemical sharpness, ammonia. Not a terpene smell at all — the gassiness in cannabis comes from volatile sulfur compounds, the same family that gives skunk and garlic their punch.
- Dessert & Cream
- Bakery and dairy: vanilla, butter, coffee, toasted nut. The Cookies and Gelato register, and the newest of the nine in cannabis terms — it barely existed before the 2010s.
From Leafly user reviews — crowd-reported impressions, not lab measurements. How this works