well lavender smells nice, but yuck! it tastes nasty like that disgusting taste you get in your moth if you get near someone who took a bath in perfume, only worse.
i don't have any use for skunky strains. if anything, they're likely to have stonier buzzes i don't want anyways, and it's just a problem waiting to happen if one's odor control fails. it's a bogus bag appeal trait to me. if YOU want really funky strains though, mandala's hashberry and nirvana's white castle bot have that stank 'o dank experience
i really liked the fruity smell of DNA's sweet haze as well as their sour cream which is just a little bit skunky, but kind of cream cheesy smelling with subtle hints of fruit.
under a halide, i got a cool grape odor and taste off my super cali haze freebie, but when i grew it's cross with joey weed C99 that was VERY slightly grapey too under a sodium, i just got a more generic fruity odor. i intend to test clones under both of my lights to see what differences spectrums make specifically on flavor and buzz under otherwise identical conditions so soil composition and temps can be ruled out.
most of the other strains i've grown have been low odor with several other fruity hazes, jacks & thais.
i had to cut my highland thai bitches down after fighting with them for 4 months to even start flowering when one had a hermie branch and i'd had enough, but when i pan fried the TINY bud starts, i got a woodie as they smelled like straight up tutti fruity! (juicy fruit gum). that's where blueberry gets it flavor from as well as a lot of fruity strains based on haze i bet, depending on which haze pheno you're even talking about as i think there's either a spicy or piney haze pheno and definitely a cat piss one. there were actually at least 3 original haze brother's hazes starting with thai i believe, then that was crossed with either columbian or keral i think and then it was crossed with afghani on a third year.
OK, this should be the actual story
“The Original Haze is a late-maturing variety from Central California and was almost always grown in greenhouses, allowing it to finish in December or January. Original Haze was always connoisseur stash, and even in the 1970s it sold for as much as $200 an ounce. Original Haze is a pure sativa stabilised hybrid arising from crossing all of the best females with a male of a different imported sativa variety each year. Starting with Colombian/Mexican hybrids grown from seeds from the first crop, a South Indian male plant was used as a pollen source the second year, and a Thai male plant was used the third year. Depending on which year Haze seeds were collected, they resembled either Colombian, South Indian of Thai plants. Original Haze varies in taste from citrus Thai notes through the gamut of sativa highlights to the deep spicy purple Colombian flavour most common in Dutch Haze cultivars.”
from
http://www.uk420.com/boards/index.php?showtopic=188559
i think the south indian was an indica and NOT kerala which is a sativa. that's why i was thinking afghani probably. i wanted to make sure to get the right lineage down before someone has a hissy fit.