Pave by Project Packs: The Eighth Running Arizona Right Now

Project Packs' whole reason for existing is right there in the Instagram bio: bringing the culture to AZ. The label is the pipeline that carried a wave of California names — Doja, Wizard Trees, Preferred Gardens, Blueprint — onto Arizona shelves, back when getting that kind of jar meant a drive to LA or knowing somebody. Funny thing is, the SKU doing the heaviest lifting isn't a borrowed legacy name at all. It's Pave, and it's currently the best-selling eighth in the entire state — over $1.3 million moved at a $42 average, no discount-bin math propping that up.

The genetics come out of Compound Genetics: Paris OG crossed onto The Menthol. The Menthol is the parent pulling the weight here — the soapy, minty gas cut that took over top-shelf menus a few years back — while Paris OG brings the old-school OG frame underneath, the earth and fuel that keeps the mint from floating off into toothpaste territory. Compound describes the result as a balanced hybrid, though half the Arizona menus selling it file it under indica, which tells you more about how it smokes at night than what the breeder intended.

The jar backs the hype up. Buds come dense and stacked, caked white enough that reviewers keep reaching for blizzard metaphors, and the nose runs sweet grape and plum up front with a peppery menthol bite and diesel sitting underneath. Blingy, minty, gassy is the three-word review that keeps showing up, and it's accurate — this is flower built for the person who opens the jar at the counter before they pay.

Arizona batch labels have been landing between 23 and 27%, right in the strain's usual pocket. The smoke follows the lineage: a quick, lifted head change off the top that settles into body ease without pinning you to the cushions — Paris OG rounding off The Menthol's edges instead of piling more weight on.

As for finding it, you won't have to look hard. Pave is on shelves from Trulieve and Sol Flower to Jungle Boys Midtown Phoenix, Harvest of Scottsdale, and Oasis in Glendale, running anywhere from $25 on promo to nearly $50 depending on the door. For a label whose whole pitch was importing California's culture, the biggest flex is that its number-one jar now belongs to Arizona.