Strain Integrity
According to Leafly, ” Bred by Seed Junky Genetics, Ice Cream Cake is an indica-dominant cross of Wedding Cake and Gelato #33. Completely flushed with icy trichomes, the buds express light green coloration with dark purple hues throughout. Ice Cream Cake maintains a creamy flavor profile with sweet hints of vanilla and sugary dough. Effects come on heavily, leaving you completely relaxed with a good night’s sleep soon to follow. ”
From the OCS website, ” ICC, an indica-dominant strain, gives off heavy citrus notes with slight peppery and floral undertones. This is thanks to its dominant terpenes: d-Limonene, beta-Caryophyllene, beta-Myrcene, farnesene-2 and linalool. ICC is grown in a Hybrid Greenhouse, and is hand-cut and wet-trimmed. ”
Ice Cream Cake?
Ice Cream Cake (ICC) by Indiva packaged on September 21, 2020, cost $39.95 for 3.5 grams came with 20.86% THC and a strong earthy musky and piney scent. Out test amount was 0.26 grams.
The taste of strong piney Indica starts the “high” with a steady euphoric rise. Ten minutes with a growing forceful euphoric embrace as cerebral playfulness distracts … we were no longer in Kansas. Fifteen, twenty, thirty minutes drifts by as the meaning of time evaporates. Forty five minutes later, we were fully immersed in a timeless happy euphoric cerebral wonderland and the slight intensity decline finally allowed us to orientate back to reality.
ICC reminds us of old school BC Buds where the “high” delivers a crushing cerebral lockdown with a strong energy body tranquilizer. This rendition of Ice Cream Cake effects are very similar to Gorilla Glue #4 with intense cerebral mindlock and strong body tranquilizing effects for a double whammer. With 20.86% THC the “high” has no problem maintaining intensity for a solid hour and a full two hour plus experience.
Activity pairing is perfect for “Me” time to refresh and rejuvenate. For us, Ice Cream Cake delivered a very introverted tranquilized experience, which is perfect after a long hard day.
Conclusion
ICC by Indiva
Who does not want to try Ice Cream Cake? ICC by Indiva is a solid Indica rendition. The “high” builds its intensity over the first half hour to completely transport us to a classical Indica world. For those who have not tried Ice Cream Cake, this may be the opportunity?
THC: 20.86%
Quality: 8.3
Intensity: 8.1
Duration: 8.0
Total: 8.13
Cost: $39.95 for 3.5 grams
Would we buy this again? No. While ICC by Indiva delivered a very enjoyable experience, this strain effects did not stand out for us. If we wanted to get a similar experience, how about Good Supply’s Monkey Glue? (Updated Jan, 12, 2020: Score was changed to 8.13 from 7.96.)
On an investment note, Indiva’s financial is scary with $12.6 million in current assets and $19.4 million in current liabilities. Even if we take out the $2.9 million of “Deferred Revenues” out of current liabilities, we still have a significant shortfall. It is also interesting in Indiva’s Leadership we noted the Master Grower is missing. Compare this to Citizen Stash where the Master Grower is the first and only person highlighted. And Citizen Stash’s Balance Sheet and excellent current ratio has $5.2 million in current assets and $0.783 million in current liabilities. Just saying ….
wonderful review, was just choosing between trying this and the gelato by gauge, very impressed with the look of the nugs, the smell is really nice except I just cant get passed that faint hay smell, as long as its not on the taste though im expecting a pretty decent experience when i get back to the bong after work! Bookmarking the site keep up the great work!
Thank you for you encouraging comments. It is so strange you chose to comment on a strain reviewed where we have some reservations to our own conclusion. ICC by Indiva is actually a lot better than the score we gave them. After we posted the reviewed, we found that we started to gravitate towards ICC and thought our score was too low. ICC was the strain that grew on us. Your post on this strain falls on the one strain where we regret our scoring … so strange how the universe works. We are correcting the score for what it’s worth. Sorry Indiva. Enjoy, Chris.
Man! That’s exactly how I was about the Indiva Glueberry OG. I only paid $20 and when I cracked it open and checked it out and puffed a J, and was disappointed. Put it on ice for a month. Went back to it, and the subtle yet very apparent fruity tones were there. And it murdered me. I was BAKED. I’ve bought 8 cans in the last 3 months, and I have around 70 kinds in my stash. Really want to try the Sfv og but I had 2 in my cart on aglc for about 5 days couldn’t decide when qwest and natural history dropped price. Now I’m filled with regret. I’m gonna try this icc tmw from a year ago. Normally I wouldn’t want it. But the can doesn’t sweat. It’ll be dry but bet it rehumidifies back up again pretty decently. Otherwise you owe me $22 Indiva.
Oh and the artisan batches! They and JVC kill it with their copackage ultra crafty stuff. Every AB Indiva can I’ve had had been ridiculously nice. The screwhead was my favourite legal bud for about 3 months until I smoked secret mintz.
Anyway, slick reviews. I probably read some of them 4 times. Peash mang. 🤙🏽