What happened to Skunk? Shitty growers running seed companies and medical dispensaries for 3 decades straight, as their poor understanding of Cannabis metabolism led them to new, degenerated flavor profiles. Growing Cannabis like fruit and vegatables (plant matter, sugars and aromatic derivatives) instead of like Cannabis (fats oils proteins and aliphatic derivatives.) Now all that's left is fruit, cheese, sour, sweetie, garlic, rubber, and piss, in endless variation, of which most should not congest the menu.
Catpiss does not smell like ammonia. Or what I'd call terpeney in anyway. It smells like black currant, white spruce, and boxwood thiols. 4-mercapto-4methyl pentan-2one, 3-Sulphanylpentan-1-ol, p-mentha-8-thiol-3-one, 4-methoxy-2-methyl-2-butanethiol, etc.
Which is why some people think it's skunk; their body can physically detect the functional group but their brain can't discern the carbon count. There was a guy in California who spent years collecting and selecting what he thought was Skunk only to find out it was basic bitch rubber to everyone he showed it to. Because rubber is also a thiol.
Today is even worse, under legalization its became very clear most people cannot tell the smell of plastic from gas from citrus. They just detect alkenes/alkanes. So, these lame breeders can sell literally anything, call it any thing. It's just going to get fucked up by the nutes anyway and smell like a pair of new shoes fucked a tennis ball on a new mattress wearing condom.
When will Coca-Cola ditch Coke Classic and replace it with Garlic Grape Coke? Never. So why are breeders replacing the classics with seasonal crap? Rootbeer GMO?? Same reason some beer brewers do. Convince the world that Skunk is out dated, and cycle through a bunch of inferior crap that you can't even recreate next year. It all tastes the same to the target audience anyway; people who don't actually like weed past it being an accessory, like a Gucci bag or a Supreme t-shirt.