I'm going to have to search, so don't take this as gospel, I might be remembering wrong. But cat piss is a defect note from inbreeding haze, which shouldn't be done as it turns to hay..
An analogy: Heineken in a green bottle, is fucking foul. It's thoroughly skunked. Ruined. Shite. Yet every green bottle sold is that way, and millions of bottles are bought every year. If you buy it in cans, it's great. Like, "fresh out of a tap in Amsterdam" great. But the bottles outsell the cans 4:1. Go figure, right?
Some people like cheese that smells like a stewed corpse, while the same cheese makes some people puke. What am I getting at?
Cannabis, in all its diversity, offers a zillion terpene combinations & recombinations, catpiss being one of them, skunk being another. Then there's citrus, fruit, and pine, and it goes almost infinitely. Me, I like piney/hash-y gear, and I do favor a very catpiss-y OGK clone as well. I favor umami flavors-more savory, less sweet. But that's just me.
Early on, the NorCal guys who brought back seeds from 'Nam and points Far East in the early 60's, tended to select P1 keeper stock that reminded them of the native smoke it came from. They didn't really innovate, so much as simply bred for the next year's seeds. The innovation came later. Early gear was never fruity, it was always savory. The fruity shit came later, when F1's faded and people started crushing polyhybrids and poly-polyhybrids.
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