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 flavor up in three words: earthy, creamy, funk. It is an indica-labeled house release, and the batch tells you more than the name does.
Where It Comes From
High Season is a California operator with licensed dispensaries in Adelanto and Fontana, and it cultivates out of Adelanto. Animal Instincts sits in its indoor flower lineup under the brand's own name rather than as a licensed outside cut, which is a meaningful difference in a market full of rented labels.
Menus sometimes print this cross as Ice Cream Cake x Unknown. The second parent is not unknown — High Season names it as Animal Mints.
The Cross
High Season carries the brand and producer credit on this one.
The genetics are Ice Cream Cake x Animal Mints. Both parents sit squarely in the modern dessert lane. Ice Cream Cake is broadly associated with the Gelato and Wedding Cake side of the family, and Animal Mints contributes Cookies-family dough, cool mint, and heavy resin.
Pairing two resin-forward dessert parents is a well-worn move, and it explains the direction of this plant more usefully than its indica label does. The label tells you how a menu wants to file it. The parents tell you what it is actually made of.
The brand's official flavor note is earthy, creamy, funk, and the ordering is informative. Earth comes first, not sugar. The terpene category is cookies and cakes, so expect dough and cream over a darker base rather than bright fruit, with limonene, myrcene, caryophyllene, and linalool listed as dominant. That group maps to citrus lift, earthy weight, pepper, and a floral softening.
Any potency figure printed on a jar belongs to that batch alone. Structure, color, and trichome coverage shift with selection, environment, harvest timing, dry, and cure, so two runs of the same cross will not look identical.
What It Left Behind
Animal Instincts is a house indoor release: one named cross, one terpene lane, grown for the brand's own shelves. Plenty of solid California indoor never travels past the counties it was grown for, and this is one of those releases.
The High Rise Take
Animal Instincts is High Season's Ice Cream Cake x Animal Mints indoor flower: earthy cream, dessert dough, and funk from a cookies-and-cakes terpene profile. Judge it by the batch and the package date, not by the label on the shelf.