“Live” refers to the starting material, freshly harvested plants frozen before drying or curing. This helps preserve delicate aromatic compounds that can otherwise be lost during those stages.

For our raw CBDa live resin range, the focus is preserving the plant’s character and careful temperature control, distinctive flavour and a rich, naturally pungent aroma. Our extracts retain their original terpenes, with no added or reintroduced terpenes.

Distillate takes a different approach. It undergoes further refining to concentrate cannabinoids, removing most of the original aromatic profile. Terpenes may then be added to introduce flavour and aroma. Our live resin’s flavour comes from the starting plant material itself.

Sugar or Sauce describe our extract’s consistency. Our Mango Cheesecake Live Resin Sugar has a granular, crystal rich texture, with small crystals held within the surrounding sauce. CBDa can crystallise under suitable conditions; “sugar” describes those smaller grains, while “diamonds” usually describes larger crystals.

The more fluid, terpene rich portion surrounding the crystals is commonly called sauce.. When separated, this portion contains dissolved cannabinoids alongside its aromatic compounds. Our sauce is listed as HTFSE—High-Terpene Full-Spectrum Extract.. HTFSE terminology ↗.

Crystallisation and heating are different processes. Crystallisation changes how molecules arrange themselves, heating can change CBDa chemically into CBD through decarboxylation. The extent depends on temperature and time, and cooling does not turn the CBD back into CBDa. That is why controlling heat matters when preserving an extract’s raw CBDa content.