From all the Urkle I've had, I dont recall much skunky about it. I recall on the Menegene episode of The Potcast, he talks a good bit about what Urkle likely is and how it differed from the other purple stuff from then and there.
It's been years since I have smoked Urkle, or what was said to be Urkle at the time. I don't remember much about it in terms of smell. I've always heard that it was grapey, berry, and skunky. Some people say it smells like Nag Champa too.
I tried GSC at the same time as Urkle, and the GSC was stronger (I thought). But it was all commercial black market weed, so you never know what was what. It's easy to slap a name on anything. I do remember the GSC had me high AF, stuffing a cold Taco Pizza Hut pizza in my face in the back of my boss' van.
I have heard that Potcast interview with Mean Gene. Gene thought it was some purple Afghani or Paki thing that a friend of his mom had, or a derivative of it. I lf I remember correctly. I remember talking to a grower named Lean Green, and said that NSpecta from CSI thought that Urkle was a Purple Pakistani x Skunk 1. In his Potcast interview, I believe he said as much too.
I found this on IC Mag.
To further complicate matters, a lot of NorCal guys I've chatted with on forums say that the Urkle cuts they had in the early 2000s had really broad leaves, but the Urkle cuts I've seen in pics today look to be more narrow leaved. So I don't know wtf is going on.
I heard somewhere that Ms Jill was claiming that Subcools Urkle cut wasn't legit. But it was on Rollitup where someone said it. So take that with about a salt shaker of salt. If Subcools cut isn't legit, neither is Bodhi's. Because it came from Subcool, to my knowledge. So what we have is possibly a mystery.
I do know the cut goes for like $1500 from the big time cut sellers on IG. Like Lazers Library, I believe he goes by. He told me that price, and my jaw almost hit the floor. No cut is worth that to me. I'll keep popping my own seed, and seed of my friends, and I'm sure I've already found something just as good or better. The fact that it's hard to get the cut is probably the main reason that I want it. My friend in Michigan had it, and passed it on to someone who didn't like it, and tossed it. I like purple weed. Especially potent purple weed, which Urkle is (so I hear).