Vortex is definitely an apt namesake for the sativa strain, as it's high can send you, and your little dog, far out of Kansas if you are not careful. Happy, heady, creative, spacey, and potent are how I would describe this strain for me. The flowers look very skunk-like, in that they are airy or lose forming, but the skunk scent, that I'd been expecting from the looks, is tamed very successfully with notes of what tastes of lemon and mint. These three seem to form a unique trinity that just works for my palette. Which is good thing as the I found the expansion in the lungs to be very quick, which usually makes for a harsher hit and/or a cough maker, but that lemony mint twist kept it at bay for me, like a cough drop. The high is very heady but from there... Well, it's taken me on an uplifted, whirlwind of energy high that keeps you zoned out when you are doing mindless repetitive tasks or in the zone when needing to focus on a serious serious problem with dogged determination and creative approaches. But like a tornado's path of destruction that hits & destroys one house and misses the neighbor's house. Vortex can follow an energetic high with a heady mindcation to unimaginable depths of pontification on whatever flight of fancy you wish to go on or demand to be taken. It's sporadic in it's effects, but always delivers a great time.