The first thing you notice when you open NYC Gelato is the mint. Not fake peppermint. Not toothpaste. It’s this cold, creamy Thin Mint smell sitting underneath warm cookie dough and sugary sherbet terps, and most Gelato strains honestly lost that part years ago. A lot of modern Gelato flower leans sweet but flat. The NYC Gelato THCa strain doesn’t. The inhale has real depth. You get creamy dessert richness first, then this cooling menthol-adjacent sharpness shows up at the back of the smoke and hangs there longer than expected.

This is Sesh’s Living Soil Exotic AAA cut of NYC Gelato, and it feels like the version of Gelato longtime Cookies smokers were actually chasing in the first place. This is an indica-dominant hybrid (60/40).

Most Gelato Strains Lost The Thin Mint Side Completely

NYC Gelato comes from Sunset Sherbet x Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies, but what makes this batch stand out is how clearly both parents still show up in the final flower. The Sunset Sherbet side brings the sweet sherbet fruit, the creamy body-heavy smoke, and that warm OG Kush depth underneath all the sweetness. Then the Thin Mint GSC genetics cut through it with mint-chocolate richness, cookie-dough funk, and a sharper terpene edge that keeps the strain from turning into generic dessert weed.

That balance matters more than most strain descriptions admit. A lot of Gelato crosses keep the sweetness but lose the actual Thin Mint identity somewhere during cure. This batch still tastes like the Thin Mint side survived all the way to the jar.

The Mint Actually Survived The Cure On This Batch

According to the grower behind this Sesh batch, the Thin Mint terps were the hardest part to preserve during post-harvest because they faded faster than everything else in the room. He reportedly slowed the dry slightly and kept the cure environment tighter than usual because “once the mint disappears, it just tastes like sweet Gelato again.”

Honestly, that explains why the smoke feels different from most dessert strains right away. The mint sits beneath the heavier sherbet sweetness rather than disappearing after the first hit. You still get the creamy cookie richness, but there’s this colder edge floating underneath everything that keeps the flavor profile sharper and more layered.

This Smokes Like The Cookies Era People Still Talk About

If you were around for the earlier Cookies wave, NYC Gelato feels familiar immediately. Not because it tastes nostalgic. Because it tastes specific. The smoke is thick. The flavor actually transfers from the jar into the inhale. The joint leaves behind that dark, oily resin ring people obsess over with a real exotic flower. Even halfway through, the inhale still tastes sweet, creamy, and slightly minty instead of turning burnt or generic.

One Sherlocks customer reportedly grabbed another quarter before finishing the first eighth because “it tasted expensive the whole way through.” This doesn’t smoke like trendy candy flower. It smokes like somebody obsessed over preserving the exact terpene profile they wanted. Other customers recommend pairing the NYC Gelato THCa strain alongside the Blue Zooties living soil strain.

Sherlocks Didn’t Keep Reordering This By Accident

NYC Gelato earned Sherlocks Reviewer’s Pick #3 because customers kept specifically coming back for it across multiple restocks, not because one batch happened to hit especially hard. A lot of exotic flower looks incredible once. Very little of it maintains the same reputation from batch to batch. The Sherlocks team kept bringing NYC Gelato back because customers kept asking for this specific cut, not just “another Gelato strain.”

Customers Started Asking For “The Mint Gelato” Instead Of NYC Gelato

One of the budtenders at Sherlocks said customers eventually stopped calling this strain by its full name and just started asking whether “the mint Gelato” was back in stock yet. That usually only happens when a specific terpene profile sticks in somebody’s memory after the jar is gone. A lot of Gelato strains blur together after a while.

NYC Gelato THCa Strain Feels Like Expensive Weed The Second You Light It

Some flower smells incredible in the jar and completely falls apart once you smoke it. NYC Gelato somehow gets louder after you light it. The sherbet sweetness thickens up. The cookie dough richness gets heavier. Then the Thin Mint side cuts through everything right at the end of the exhale with that cool, herbal sharpness sitting at the back of your throat. It’s heavy without feeling sleepy immediately. Your body relaxes fast, but the Durban Poison side hidden inside the Thin Mint genetics keeps your head active longer than expected before the indica weight finally catches up.

This is the kind of flower people save for late nights when they actually want to sit there and pay attention to what they’re smoking instead of mindlessly burning through a jar. In stock now at our Raleigh, Durham, and Wake Forest locations and ships nationwide.