Mandarin Cookies

Mandarin Cookies is flower named for a strain with Mandarin Sunset on one side of its family tree. Leafly names Forum Cut Cookies as the other parent and credits Ethos in Colorado as the breeder, while AllBud names Cookies as the other parent.

Mandarin Sunset crossed with a Cookies parent

Leafly’s write-up calls the strain a hybrid. AllBud puts the mix at 70% sativa and 30% indica, under the label rare sativa dominant hybrid.

Leafly’s page shows 19% THC and 0% CBD, with its potency meter above the average strain. On AllBud the THC runs from 19% to 26%.

Tangerine, orange cake and almond cookie

Leafly’s flavour tags are citrus, orange and pepper, and its write-up mentions sweet citrus and diesel. One Leafly reviewer finds the smell citrus, fruity and a touch earthy, with a sweet-and-sour citrus taste behind it. Others describe sweet-tart orange, tangerine with sugar cookie, or orange cake.

AllBud describes a bright, sharp, tangy citrus flavour with nutty herbal hints on the exhale, compared to an almond cookie. Its aroma is earthy and kushy with a sour tangerine note that turns slightly pungent when burned. AllBud’s flavour tags are citrus, herbal, orange and sour, and its reviewers add nutty, sweet, woody, gas, lime and pine.

Small tight buds and pepper-shaped nugs

One Leafly reviewer describes small, tight buds heavily coated in sparkling trichomes. AllBud describes elongated, pepper-shaped nugs in olive green, with thick yellow-orange hairs and a coating of tiny frosty white trichomes.

A caryophyllene-led terpene profile

Leafly’s lab-based terpene readout ranks caryophyllene first, limonene next and myrcene third. For the citrus one in that order, see our limonene guide.

What reviewers on both sites report

Leafly’s top three effect tags are relaxed, uplifted and happy, and its reviewers add giggly, talkative, energetic, creative, euphoric and focused.

AllBud describes a lifted, energetic high that opens with euphoria and tingly creativity, alongside a light body high. Its users tag body high, relaxing, tingly and uplifting, and its reviewers add energizing, giggly, sociable and creative.