The Terpene Table - Before they had names: Skunk

The most famous smell incannabis isn't a terpene 🌿  skunk isn't myrcene. it never was. it's a sulphur compound — a garlic-cousin thiolthey call VSC3 — and nobody characterised it in cannabis until 2021.  which means growers spent forty years namingit, chasing it and selecting for it while the lab literally could not see it ona panel.  that's our new series — BeforeThey Had Names. the old words, one at a time. and we start with the one thatproves it: skunk.  Skunk #1 out ofCalifornia. the cuts that carried it. the Roadkill myth, handled honest. andhere's the kicker — that skunk smell peaks during cure and starts fading afterabout ten days on the shelf. the loudest jar is always the fresh one.  the names arrived late. the knowledge wasalready here.