I like to think of the Cuban black haze as the original. Seeds of NL5XHAZEA were obtained from Ed rosenthal in 1988 and brought back to Florida. In the early days (at least as far back as I can remember) it was mostly just called purple haze but it wasn’t actually purple. Dipset started the piff nickname because when you tried to hold it in it would make you “piff pffft pffft” and you’d have to exhale or you’d cough your ass off. Over time New York growers found their own bagseeds and at the same time people in Florida did a few different breeding projects (like the Miami silver haze which is actually cbh x ssh) after time there were different batches of piff which could’ve been either the same cut just grown differently or a bagseed or breeding, if it has that distinct smell it could pass off as “piff” no matter how it looked or what it was.