Matter of fact there are
terpenes that smell like rubber. Did you ever think you ruined a cure because the weed smelled.like fresh cut grass? That's a terpene as well...
I was hesitant to say anything. I know the rubbers, a la diesel, etc, and the burning plastic smells. But this is different.. Entire dispensaries, every strain: shoe factory. Never smelled nothing like it in decades of soil grown weed.
Wait til you walk into a dispensary where every strain smells like a Chinese factory.. Not the delicious weed kind of plastic, but tastes like smoking milk jugs and tennis balls, screws your throat up, very easy to tell with vape this shit is not terps.. Half the dispos have their own little plastic signature indicating which nutes they used. You can easily match them up. Smelling like Rubbermaid tubs..
The last GG i grew was nothing but rubber,loved it. Cuz it's a real weed smell. The nasty shit in dispos? Definitely from synthetic nutes. Disgusting plastic. Green Crack, Cherry Pie, Blue Dream, all plastic smelling and youd know it ain't weed you're sniffing right away, terpless bullshit with one single plastic note. Come to Az i can point you to entire dispensaries of plastic. 30 years of soil growers and there's only one plastic and one rubber smell I've smoked, nothing like the tennis balls some talk about.. Like weird skunky bubblegum and edible wonka shoe soles, yes. Nasty chemical unedible Chinese knockoff Tennis ball fumes? That's unflushed hydro..
Botanicare is the worst. I'm sensitive enough to know natural from contaminant, even if I hadn't been doing this so long. One gives you cotton mouth, the other makes your mouth water up cuz of the puke reflex.