The pungent smell you are refering to, hippiehillbilly, as well as the smell that drug dogs are trained to detect, is that of methyl benzoate. Methyl benzoate is a highly volatile decomposition byproduct of processed coke. During the processing, strong acids decompose the benzoyl group on the cocaine molecule to produce methyl alchohol and benzole acid, which then form methyl benzoate. Pure cocaine does not smell of anything. Just do an acetone wash and your product will not smell of anything at all. As street cocaine starts off smelly and loses some smell each time it is cut, the stronger the smell of your street coke the better it is likely to be. It's rather hard to imagine a dealer who would take the time to purify his product before selling it.
a dog's nose is completely different from ours, toke. it can smell through things we would think impossible (air tight jars, peanut butter, shampoo), separate different smells (that of coke and of any agent you would try to mask it with), etc. especially a trained dog. honestly this is pretty much just my opinion/educated guess but if you have reason to worry about a dog, i would WORRY.
and if that's incorrect^^^, i'm pretty sure there will always be trace amounts on the outside of whatever you have sealed, and the dog would smell that.
I'm not going to really worry about the dog, I was just wondering because on them long highway trips I get nervice coming back with everything. I guess I just need to find a better way to hide it and if the cop asks to search my car not have a problem then he wont have a reason to call a dog.
all the times i did coke i found that yeah it had a distinct smell to it. but it wasn't really overpowering. it was like a mellow and soft smell. definately chemcially though.
Exactly. From my experience coke does have a smell, but its not nothing you can smell from ten feet away so I dont know what the other guy was talking about unless he had some coke that was cut to shit with acitine or something.