Animal Instincts is High Season's cross of Ice Cream Cake and Animal Mints, grown as indoor flower in California. The brand files it under a cookies-and-cakes terpene profile and sums the flavour up in three words: earthy, creamy, funk. The ordering of those words is the useful part.
A house release, not a rented label
High Season is a California operator with licensed dispensaries in Adelanto and Fontana, cultivating out of Adelanto. Animal Instincts sits in its indoor flower lineup under the brand's own name rather than as a licensed outside cut.
That difference matters in a market full of rented labels. When the company growing the plant is also the company selling it, the feedback loop between room and counter is short, and the cut either keeps earning its space or gets replaced.
The same program produces Blue Gummiez, and the two share a house signature: dense indoor structure, heavy resin and a preference for depth over brightness.
Both parents come from the dessert lane
Ice Cream Cake sits on the Gelato family and Wedding Cake side of the catalog, contributing cream, vanilla dough and a dense bud structure that finishes heavy.
Animal Mints brings Cookies-family dough, a cool mint edge and serious resin production. It is one of the more reliable resin donors in modern breeding, which is why it turns up so often as a parent.
Pairing two resin-forward dessert parents is a well-worn move, and it explains this plant far better than its indica label does. The label describes how a menu files it; the parents describe what it is actually made of.
Earth first, sugar second
The brand's flavour note runs earthy, creamy, funk, in that order. Earth leads rather than sweetness, which separates Animal Instincts from most of the dessert shelf around it.
Limonene, myrcene, caryophyllene and linalool are listed as dominant. That group maps to citrus lift, earthy weight, pepper and a floral softening, and it tracks with a profile that reads dough and cream over a darker base rather than bright fruit.
The funk in the description is real rather than decorative. There is a savory undertone here that dessert-strain buyers either love immediately or find surprising.
The complete parent pair
Menus sometimes print this cross as Ice Cream Cake crossed with an unnamed second parent. High Season names it: Animal Mints. The full cross is on the brand's own listing.
High Season's full parent pair is more precise than shortened retailer copy.
What to expect from a run
Structure, colour and trichome coverage shift with selection, environment, harvest timing, dry and cure, so two runs of the same cross will not look identical. Both parents throw dense flower, so the density is the most consistent trait across batches.
High Season supplies lineage, terpene and flavor notes but does not make a universal effect promise. Batch chemistry, dose and tolerance remain the better guides.
Where it fits
Animal Instincts is regional indoor flower in the best sense: one named cross, one terpene lane, grown for the brand's own shelves. Plenty of strong California indoor never travels past the counties it was grown for, and this is one of those releases.
The strain library covers the wider Cookies and Gelato family it belongs to, which is where the rest of the context for this cross lives.