That’s an interesting theory. Self defense mech to ward off humanz! Ive wondered a lot about europeans naming skunk cultivars without ever smelling one?
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Is there no skunks in Europe meaning the 4 legged stinky cat like appearance critter?
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That’s my understanding… Ive not been too Europ🤷
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Phew weee. Skunk
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Can I just catch skunks and make them spray the plants like we use to lol.
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I was thinking the Same. Just have them populate the farm and sick the dog on em one in awhile
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While reading about skunk of old, there seemed to be a concensus that skunk wasn’t purple early on…
Dope listing from 1985, look
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Now see, that’s what I’m taking about. I never seen any purple skunk weed either. But who am I to judge.
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Smack dab in the middle of Skunkland!
are people looking for bud smelling like a corpse (dead smell) or are they loooking for “skunk spray” (pee) … both of this smells very different, lol. 
and why is everybody looking for RKS in skunk-seeds, instead of just re-creating the whole skunk-lineage and check this? 
sorry, guys, but i am with vernal … this shit never excisted and people “remembering” it failed to remember to take a clone (yes, because it was THAT great) … gimme a break, lol.
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I think that in Europe its Called Cheese becouse there is no asociation on Skunk they dont live here same genetics different name
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Last strong Skunk I grew was in 94 and it was Blue. Last killer Skunk was the small golf ball lime green 85 Skunk .
We got burnt out on it fast and couldn’t get high like we did at first. It had a powerful stone at first, we loved it.
We over consumed it because it was mind blowing weed. 
Probably why we got burned out after a couple ounces in a weekend.
I smoked tons of Midwest Skunk back In the day. Been there done that won’t be applying to the Original Skunk cult of the 70s and 80s.
I truly believe Skunk has been around way before us modern smokers smoked it. Outdoors is probably the key to creating and growing superior skunk selections. I don’t think it will ever be accomplished indoors on the level Outdoors can.
(Pic) Ancient Skunk
5-22-2022
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I think what people are looking for is generally the same aroma that comes out in light-struck beer, with the rotting flesh notes in the background. That is to say essentially the presence of thiols in detectable amounts.
Why cannabis smells skunky - American Chemical Society.
“Five of the VSCs contained the prenyl functional group and had skunk-like or sulfuric aromas. One compound in particular, 3-methyl-2-butene-1-thiol, referred to as VSC3, was the most abundant VSC in the cultivars that the panel reported to be most pungent. This compound has previously been implicated in the flavor and aroma of “skunked beer” — beer that goes bad after being exposed to UV light.”
For you Euros that never had the (mis)fortune of growing up in places where dead skunks were plentiful, skunk spray smells like roughly equal parts light-struck beer, burning rubber, rotting meat, and rotten eggs. It’s uniquely unpleasant. 
http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/skunk-spray/skunkh.htm
“Very recent analysis (published November 2021) of concentrated extracts of cannabis flowers have detected a number of sulfur-containing odorants, with 3-methyl-2-butene-1-thiol being identified as the primary odorant.”
Skunk 1, by most reports, seems to lean a few ways- skunk, lemon, or cheesy. I doubt UK Cheese is not the same smell as Skunk, though it is of course a pheno of Skunk 1. They’re the “same” in the sense that OGKB is the same genetics as Thin Mint Cookies or Platinum Cookies.
I agree with both @santero and @GregOG in a sense. It seems like the best way to recreate/find the skunky smell is through genetics that were available in the '70s and '80s- heirlooms like Acapulco Gold, Oaxacan, Colombian Gold, Panama Red, Afghan(s), Deep Chunk, X18, Hindu Kush, Aunt of Farouk, etc. I’d bet if those were all grown out together under the sun and meticulously hunted, there’d be some skunk found in a few years.
That’s not to say that there won’t/can’t be skunky smells from the Skunk strain, but at this point it seems like recombining the base genetics has just as good a chance to end with that outcome as growing out and digging through, say, a (Skunk 1 x Mass Super Skunk) cross.
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Jim Ortega told Nevil Martin Schoenmakers he sent him his best Garlic phenotypes of his Skunks.
I have Garlic bud and one plant was overpowering in skunk. The more it sat out after breaking it up the stronger the skunk smell was. It was 100% old school Skunk smell. Didn’t have it in taste when it was burned. It was grown outdoors too.
I revegged the skunky Garlic bud plant.
Here’s a pic of it.
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ha, thats what i meant by “skunk turned into dogbud (chemdog)” over the years …
the garlic smell gives it away, imho 
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What is this screenshot from? Would love to read more
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They are the “trans-high market quotations” from high times.
I found a bunch posted by a member on icmag. Can’t find the thread at the moment, I remember the thread is about old publications or old books. If/when I find it I’ll tag you.
Found it!
Member “four seasons” has the goods 
@Dr.VitaminGreen
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