Animal Face

Leafly credits Animal Face, the strain behind this flower, with first place at the 2022 Emerald Cup Awards. Seed Junky Genetics bred it, Leafly says, by crossing Face Off OG with Animal Mints.

What each parent brings

Leafly’s account is that the piney, gassy terpenes and strong high come from Face Off OG, while Animal Mints adds a smooth, cookie-like flavour. AllBud traces it to the same Face Off OG and Animal Mints pairing. Leafly files the strain as a hybrid, and AllBud calls it a sativa-dominant hybrid at 60% sativa and 40% indica (our indica vs sativa vs hybrid guide explains what those labels mean). Leafly names Cake Face and Animal Butter as strains bred from Animal Face.

Mossy green buds with a menthol edge

In AllBud’s description the buds are dense and mossy green, with dark orange hairs and bright amber crystals on the surface. Menthol, mint and diesel are the top flavours on Leafly, where one reviewer describes dense buds with an earthy, pine aroma and a hint of diesel, and another notes a strong menthol and mint taste.

AllBud describes a sweet, sugary, nutty flavour with hints of mint and earth on the exhale, and a light touch of pine and diesel in the aroma as the buds burn. Myrcene, which Leafly describes as herbal, tops its terpene list for Animal Face, with limonene and caryophyllene next.

A full mind-and-body high, and 30% THC on Leafly

Leafly’s reviewers mostly describe feeling relaxed, tingly and euphoric, and Leafly sums the high up as a full mind-and-body one. AllBud’s account opens with a cerebral rush of euphoria that drifts into mental relaxation, then a tingly feeling from head to toe; uplifting, body high and hungry are among its effect tags.

Leafly puts THC for the strain at around 30%, with CBG near 1%, and rates it above average in potency; AllBud’s THC range is 18% to 26%. When smoking, Health Canada‘s lower-risk page advises a start of 1 or 2 puffs of a product at no more than 10% THC, since effects arrive within seconds to minutes and can take up to 30 minutes to peak.