Why does coke smell like turpentine?

That's the closest thing I can liken the smell to, but still not exactly. I've likened the smell to kerosene or gasoline before but I think it smells much more like turpentine. I've been told that they use either kerosene or gasoline as a solvent (the DEA website says its gasoline but we know how reputable their information is, and the spin they put on everything).

Is this smell because of a certain solvent residue left over from a crude method of production? Or is this the smell of cocaine itself, or some impurity? All the cocaine I've come across has had this smell, whether it's a bag of shake or big solid chunks of coke. Maybe they use an aromatic solvent that doesn't evaporate too readily and press it straight into bricks before its had enough time for the solvent to fully dissipate so a small amount of a pungeant solvent gets compressed into it and this is why you can still smell it. I would think cocaine would be too heavy of a molecule to have such a strong smell like that.

Never smelled cocaine and any of these solvents side by side but there's a component in the smell of coke that is not present in any of these, but turpentine is probably the closest, followed maybe by gasoline but gasoline also has another part to its smell which isn't present in the cocaine smell. I wish there was better language to describe smells and odors.

 

What is that? looks like something you would go to prison for.

 

it a gas tank

it's how coke comes into the U.S.

it's also probably the reason behind the smell

but im just guessing

 

Because Cocaine and Turpentine are both plant based.

 

^But DMT is plant based and it doesn't smell that way.

 

Actually, I have no idea. I was just being goofy.

 

maybe you should wash your balls..

 

I think the smell you are referring to is kerosene, the solvent used to extract the coca from the leaves. Back in the late 70's early 80's, most of the coke was ether-based, it didn't have that fuelly smell to it.

 

I love how the media highlights the chemicals that are involved in the manufacture of drugs. As if they are really somehow equivalent to all those chemicals.

Ibuprofen synthesis starts with isopropyl benzene and uses hydrofluoric acid as a catalyst, nasty shit.

 

Yeah that always cracks me up too, they always act like all the chemicals used to process a drug end up in the final product.

 

I like when they say "when you smoke marijuana, you're inhaling X number of chemicals!"

As if the number of chemicals means anything. Meanwhile these same people wash their bodies with soaps with a list of chemicals that they can't even pronounce, and eat processed foods with all kinds of random shit in it.

 

Coke I did a few months ago smelled a little bit like... cowshit... I wonder how they imported it...

 

Moooo! :sunny:

 

Stepped on maybe?

As far as transportation goes, I've had bud that smelled like gas, coffee, dog food, syrup due to how it was transported

 

The cocaine molecule is structurally related to

tropine and other tropane alkaloids (Roth and

Fenner 1988, 311*). Today, cocaine is the most

consumed psychoactive plant constituent in the

world. Pure cocaine (as a base) is not water soluble

but can be dissolved in alcohol, chloroform,

turpentine oil, olive oil, or acetone. Cocaine salts

are water soluble.

 

That's the low quality stuff, doesn't matter if its still clumped up or not. Most of the coke I've seen from people with good connects never smelled like that or had that chemical taste during the drip.

 

This is the correct answer. I also remember cutting fresh big rocks and it reeking of ether so much that you had to chop it and let it dry a little, but damn was it good.

 

I've been told an acetone wash will purify coke and take a lot of stuff out of it that shouldn't be there. Coke is probably the drug I've experimented with the least, so haven't gotten that far. Also, I'm very worried how much "coke" would be left if I did.

 

it,s extracted from the leaf with gasoline. idk mabye thats why only the good stuff smells/taste gassy.