On behalf of my mother (rip), 5 stars. This was her favorite strain. She was a woman wracked with sickness. After an extremely rare neurological, autoimmune disorder left her permanently unable to walk, a cancer scare, bed sores to the bone, total hysterectomy, and finally kidney disease, I'm glad Ingrid was around to comfort my mom. She said Ingrid made the tingling in her feet stop. The pain stopped. And she felt truly relaxed. Thanks Ingrid for giving my mom some dignity at the end of her life.
Think back to a 100° day during the summer as a kid. It's a lake day, or a swimming pool day. The scent of SPF pervades the air. You've been swimming and playing in the hot sun all day. It's peak heat, 2:30 pm, time to take a break under the shade to eat and reapply sunscreen. You sit down on a towel with your can of Coke and Styrofoam plate of chips, a deli meat sandwich, and a cold Clementine straight from the cooler. After a few bites of chip-toopped-sandwich, you rip open your Clemente, getting sprayed in the face with the cold juices, pick all the peel off a picture perfect slice, and enter a state of euphoria when your teeth first pop through the plump skin of the Clementine with a current of sweet, cold, tart, juicy nectar exploding in your mouth.
This is what I experience in the few seconds after opening an air tight canister of Clementine flower and breathing it in deeply. If you held this strain up to my nose and I had my eyes closed, I would absolutely believe you were holding up a bowl of fresh juicy Clementine slices. I think I enjoy smelling this strain even more than I enjoy smoking it. However, combustion of the flower in a glass pipe revealed it's delicious skunky basenotes, hidden by the wonderfully overwhelming citrus. Carve out a human sized Clementine, sit inside, and load a bowl of your skunkiest flower.
I LOVE this strain. Aside from the perfect smell and taste, I enjoy the euphoric, giddy high I get from this strain. I'm a crier. I cry at anything remotely happy or sad, even a Disney movie I've seen hundreds of times. This bud magnifies that quality! I feel emotions so intensely on this strain, an absolute jubilation for being alive.
I HIGHLY recommend this strain to EVERYONE. I do not much care for oranges. And I hate artifical orange flavor. This isn't a strain I would have normally picked. I had a coupon to try an eighth of it for $30. Due to my mask and COVID, I declined to smell it when I bought it. This is my biggest regret. I'd have bought an ounce of this strain if I had smelled it in the shop.
Literally the only time I could ever see recommending against it is in the very specific situation that one desires a very standard, basic, unadulterated, purist experience with weed. Real life firsthand examples include "kids" of any age who just smoke to get high. They will not appreciate this strain. Also, "grandparents" of any age who show a nervousness or apprehension to trying weed. I thought the opposite, that the familiar citrus would be disarming, but for some reason they found it really unnatural that flower should smell like oranges "instead of like dope."
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If you love stinky weed, this is the strain for you. Be prepared for the pungency to make your eyes water when you open a container of a fresh African Queen and take a whiff. This was recommended to me because Golden Goat is my favorite strain. Solid recommendation, right up the same dank alley.