This is what people are talking about when they complain about the watering down of genetics.. Some shit will be gone or hard as fuck to recreate. Skunk was a novelty.. smelled/tasted like skunk.. high was good but it was really the smell/taste that was a seller.. It was also a P-I-T-A because you could have a personal amount triple bagged and the shit would have your car reeking within 10 minutes. Then people starting breeding the funk out.. there was no gorilla growing skunk etc. and smelling your grow from a block or two away causes anxiety that is not worth the aforementioned novelty.
fwiw '02-'03 was the last time the actual skunk came around town.. there has been skunky bud since then but not the obscene skunk smell that was available somewhat regularly before 02-03 (same exact years I believe the real blueberry stopped going around also fwiw)
@genuity and
@thenotsoesoteric have touched on the topic a time or two and I think most of us respect their opinion/recollection.