I can't believe I've not been in on this...
I wasn't smoking back when I was 5, so I never tried the real Skunk. I DID smell it a few times though... I still can remember sitting in my old neighborhood, and I said "Oh wow a Skunk" or something like that, and some older family said "Uhhhh that's not actually a Skunk" and I was dumb founded.... I knew what a Skunk smelled like, because when someone would run one over with their car I'd leave my bedroom window open with the fan on and just sit there smelling it... (I did the same thing with Gasoline and Limburger Cheese.....Makes more sense why, now that I smoke weed LOL!) and I'd sit there late at night smelling a Skunk.
Now, with that in mind, I can count on one hand, after a terrible saw accident, how many times I've personally smelled Weed that actually smelled like a Skunk had sprayed.
The ONLY time EVER thus far, has been the Blue Cheese mystery cross. Not only Skunky, but with Cat Piss on the back end, and to this day the most pungent plant I've EVER smelled. I've smelled a lot of weed in my day, and I select things based on the chances of it being rank, and yet, a simple screw up by me, is the only one.
I actually thought it was a phenotype to be Honest; but Schwaggy set me straight with some facts about breeding and pollination that put me right. I don't have a clue what male pollinated a Blue Cheese clone, but what I do know, is that the first of two female seedlings that became big enough for me to clone, was one I nicknamed "Big Momma Cheese". She was big, and looked and grew like I expect any Cheese to do. When I first got a sniff of her though, I was searching through my nose for notes of Blueberry and Cheese, but didn't find that at all... What I did find was Skunk, and Cat Urine. After some time, there was a little bit of odd Berry like aroma in it, but it was just overpowering in terms of ranking Skunk and pee.
By the time she was flowering, it was apparent that it was something different than anything I'd ever had. Harvest time came, and the in law who can't hardly smell anything (He had Covid and can barely smell anything as it is) came in the bedroom, and we had her hanging up, and he walks in, and literally took a step back and said "WHAT is THAT!?!?!?!" even he could smell it.
I literally had trouble sleeping at night with her hanging up to dry in there... I've NEVER smelled something like it before. I'd be laying in bed and the smell would just permeate out and make it actually hard to sleep.
Once she was in jars the smell didn't change much like a Cheese normally would; Wife walked in one day and I was burping a jar, or, had it open to grab some weed from, and she asked me "Did the cat pee in here??" and I'm like "I think it's this" LOL. Wife didn't like the smell at all, but loved the actual weed itself.
The main two notes you could pick up were straight Skunk spray and Cat pee pee. To this day I'm not sure wtf happened with that plant, but MAN was she a producer too.... Massive tops, all smelling like something scared a skunk.
I did run a few seeds of that this past season, and out of 7 seeds, all but two were male. Sadly the male plants were the ones that smelled the most like the Mother they came from. The females do have that REALLY odd sour smell, but they're more "nutty". I do have seeds left of this, though I'm not sure how many, and I know I sent some out but haven't heard back as of yet.
I've said this before, and I'll say it again; In terms of what you're likely to find in a Skunk seed you purchase today, you aren't likely to get anything actually Skunky because the breeders selectively breeding that trait out, but Cheese on the other hand... That was from when they first started messing with the selective breeding, and so, it would make sense, that the closer you are to the real deal Cheese, the more likely that trait could come about, with proper amount of Thiols and Sulphur feedings of course