Will try it tomorrow! Friend told me it’s was a good sativa strain for the day. The smell is nice. More on the sunset side with a subtil touch of mandarin.

I liked the Mandarin cookies qhite a bit so I was just curious to see if this one would be similar.

Visually it’s a perfect trim and the trichromes are crazy on this thing.

I understood at the scent that it indeed similar to the Mandarin cookies. Sugary caramel.

I trie...d it with my solo 2 and I recognized all the character of the Mandarin cookies. It’s not the same strain but it’s a similar taste. Very creamy and candy. I’m in love.

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I missed out the last time this was on offer, so when it popped back up I grabbed this and the Sophie’s Breath.

Well, it’s not as visually appealing as other strains Skookum offers - Ultra Pink is a heavy hitter for sure.

Buds remind me of back in the days weed where you’d ...buy a bag from someone and get home and be disappointed in the look of it and then you’d smoke one and be absolutely floored.

The trim on this stuff is unimpressive and the visual suffers for it. However, taste/smell and high are absolute aces.

Super sticky, breaks up easily and rolls into a very nice joint. Taste is what you’d expect from a Pink Kush cross. Old school Kush and an earthy flavour. Burns white and slow.

The high is a classic heavy indica experience. Couch lock, lazy and hungry haha. This is a great example of a night time strain. This is the stuff I smoke an hour or so before bed if I want to get a decent sleep without the usual night terrors and restless nights I usually struggle with. A real knockout.

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When I saw that Skookum had some Sophie’s Breath on offer I ended up breaking my promise to stop spending money on weed and copped a couple/few tins of a couple/few strains including this.

My first Sophie’s Breath experience was from Rainzforest a year or so ago and it was really nice ...so I was excited to see what Skookum could do with it.

Buds are beautiful, hues of purple, green and orange, coated in trichomes and sticky. A really nice cure as well, sticky to the touch but breaks off the stem.

Nose is sweet and has some very strong berry notes. Taste translates with an earthy and blueberry exhale. The ash burned salt and pepper for me with a couple of joints. That’s a first from Skookum for me. Was still a smooth smoke, just an observation.

High is a nice hybrid, I feel like I can get shit done but if I were to sit down and start gaming - I’d be just as happy. You really can get lost in your thoughts with this high. Munchies is meh, pretty easy to forget that you haven’t eaten in a bit with this stuff when you’re focused on a task.

Overall, this is a great example of a hybrid that I would gladly partake in as a daily driver. Astro Boy still tops the scales for me as far as a functional smoke but this is a close second.

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Value: 8.5See More

So I took a two month hiatus from Budmail, kinda like what the Aussies would call a bit of a “walk about”, after having ordered almost exclusively from them for a year. I went forth and sought, for the most part, value alternatives, but I did try one similar to BM and rekindled a relationship wi...th a previous favourite. It was a gratifying trip where I interacted with some great redditors, had some fun communications with a few moms, and arrived at a moment of clarity.

There are value deals out there. I had an O all in for $104! The issue is finding consistency. In each scenario when I ordered a mix and match or simply multiple strains from the lower tiers there was always a gem in the rough, something smokable, and inevitably something lack luster. So it averages out to smokable, and that leads to higher consumption: bigger dubes and increased frequency.

The end of my journey is a return to the familiar with no further great concern that I’m missing out. My great granny always said, “you get what you pay for”. For me, in the long run, I’m buying into paying for the top drawer, and trying to roll back on frequency in favour of quality experiences. I will likely still be occasionally tempted by a value offer, but now wonder if the next journey is exploring the best strains each of the upper tier growers offer.

Onto the strain at hand:

CS tipped me off that something good was up with this and I owe a shout out. Every now and then you get something really special; this was one of those times.

Nicely trimmed, with a few sugar leaves for show. Nice thumb sized buds, only took three of them to make the quarter (I have big hands). Heavy with resin I had to physically separate the buds when I removed them from the bag.

The nose is wonderful. It entices with overtones of earth, musk, cedar, a honey like sweetness and a hint of fuel.

A dube produces a very nice resin ring and a smooth burn. My first impression was “rich”. HPK is very full flavoured.

Effects were outstanding: Insta-permagrin, a tad of giddiness, and definitely euphoric out of the gate. Then, like getting under a warm blanket, a deep sense of calm and relaxation wash over the body. Great legs too.

Overall, I rate this as exceptional, and I got what I paid for.

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