My thoughts on this.
I grew up in British Columbia in Canada. The California of Canada. Back in the early 80's we had skunk weed that smelt exactly like skunk spray. There is also a plant out here called western skunk cabbage and it smells the exact same.
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Now the term Road Kill is something different from Skunk weed. Skunk weed smelt like skunks and roadkill smelt like rotting animal flesh. The Heimi Cheeba RKS was originally just called road kill. Skunk was not part of the name. That got added later. If you listen to this podcast with Heimi himself you'll see or hear.
So I feel the two are different. There's Skunk and there's Roadkill.
Now Skunks only exist in North America so when the skunk weed hit the UK they called it Cheese because they don't know what a skunk smell like. They don't have any. Same with any where else in the world... No Skunks. (the animal not the weed)
In some places they called strong smelling weed "Skunk" not because it smelt like a skunk but because the odor level was strong.
I have read articles that stated the skunk smell came from volatile compounds within the plant not the terpenes.
I have tried every so called skunk rks type strain and not found what I smoked in High School. I feel that specific cultivar has died and gone the way of the vikings.
There are land race sativas with skunky smells and landrace indicas. I think the final secret is they are hidden in the old land races. Our weed today is too many hybrid crosses with muttered terpene values. To find wha you're looking for go to the old schol landraces and not the ones sold in seed banks.
I've never had actual Skunk, and never even heard of RKS until I joined here, however, I DO have a decent amount of experience with Cheeses:
I've heard how the UK has no Skunks, and that they called it Cheese because they didn't know what else to call it, but the thing is, I've also heard that Brits have a specific Cheese in mind when they speak of the real Cheese. And I don't mean that Big Buddha Cheese where he took that cut and bred it with an Afghan Landrace, as that wouldn't be the same anymore. (Apparently he did that to change the pungency of Cheese, much like they did to the original Skunk back in the day which I think helped lead to Cheese). I've had Blue Cheese more than most other Cheese plants, and it to me smelled like a Cheese Danish (The usual Blueberry aroma from the Blueberry side of the genetics, and with a very distinct pungent Cheese smell, and I know what a Skunk smells like, there's a difference) and with that said I recently discovered I'm an idiot and don't have a Blue Cheese Hermie seed sack, but an actual mystery cross.
Way too many Males for it to be a hermie bean... I will say that I've smelled a Skunk's Spray many times, and my sense of smell I've heard is pretty good, and I can remember actual "That's not a Skunk...." from a family member when I thought I'd smelled a Skunk but it turned out to be Weed; I was like 7 or 8 so that was late 80s maybe ?
The mystery Blue Cheese cross, DOES smell like a Skunk. and I don't mean "sort of" I mean Wife walking in asking if the Cat pissed in the bedroom while I'm burping a jar of it. It wasn't just Skunk that I smell in this cross, as there is a distinct cat piss aroma as well. All the Males I had this season from these Seeds basically smelled like that. A slight hint of Blueberry, and creamy from the Cheese (I have said imagine Blueberry Yogurt getting tossed out in Summer, and it sits in the Sun for a while, and a Cat and a Skunk both spray it).
I've smelled the difference between Cheese and Skunk spray, and I've also smelled similarities that Cheese strains are capable of producing, which, given the lineage makes sense.
Growing a Cheese with a good Sulfur regimen ought to do the trick. I'm still testing the mystery cross, and with Cheese, the Cure matters a lot to the smell, so we will find out how that transfers over as I've gotten a few different phenotypes.
As many breeders and the mass majorities of ppl that have wanted it and or have tried to find it or recreate it you would think someone would have nailed it by now...So many preservationists these days ,probably more than ever ,all I can do is hope one day I get to try out this skunk spray smoke
Well there's a very real chance I can help you out eventually with that
We need a time machine and go back to my high school in grade 10. Like back to the future but for weed. Any chance you have a DeLorean?
TARDIS might work better
But if you get either working I need a trip to 80s England, a Baseball bat, and the location of the Exodus Collective. Fuckers ain't telling no one SHIT about how they "can't breed with Cheese"..... LOL.
That guy was a thorn in my side the entirety of his short employment, if I see him again he'll likely get hit.
It exists, somewhere.
Yep, so many assholes, so little preparation H
Plenty of spiked Dildos though