Does Vaping Produce a Weed Smell?
Short answer: Yes.
Longer answer: Vaping does smell of weed, but that smell doesn’t linger the way it does with weed smoke. Rather, weed vapor dissipates very quickly, so the scent is gone almost as soon as it appears.
It doesn’t stick around and incriminate you, either. Whereas weed smoke sticks to hair and clothing fibers, letting everyone within a fifty-foot radius know what you’ve been up to, weed vapor doesn’t linger.
How Long Does The Smell Stick Around?
It depends on whether you are out in the open or in an enclosed space. If you are outdoors, then the smell will disappear almost immediately. If you are indoors in a well-ventilated room, then the smell will go away nearly as quickly as if you were outdoors. So, what happens if you are in an enclosed space? In that case, the smell will stick around for a little longer, but not much longer.
You only have to wait for about a few seconds to a minute for the smell to be gone. The time depends on the strength of the vapor from your weed vape and the amount vaped.
Weed Smell Solutions
While you can’t get rid of the weed smell, you can suppress it with the right equipment. You can buy smell-proof, odor-resistant cases that won’t give you away. You can store your vaporizer and your stash in them and not worry that they will emit any tell-tale odors.
There are handheld portable options that you can take with you on a quick trip as well as bigger, heavier cases that are great for home storage. Either way, those cases have got you covered.
Vape Types
The method of weed consumption has a distinct effect on the kind of smell it produces. Here is the kind of odor that you can expect from the different ways of using weed.
E-Nails
E-nails use a lot of wax and create a lot of vapor so the weed smell is pretty strong when using them. Out of all the vaping methods, the scent from e-nails also lingers the longest. Fortunately, it doesn’t stick to hair or clothing fibers so once you’re done with your session, no one will be the wiser.
Dry Herb Vaporizers
As stated elsewhere in this article, the smell from dry herb vapes is pretty mild and doesn’t stick to anything. So, if you’re worried about the smell of weed, but don’t want to give it up, then dry herb vaporizers are the way to go.
Wax/ Dab Pens
These devices use wax, but they use less than e-nails, not to mention that the wax is inside of the device, whereas with e-nails and portable dab rigs, it’s out in the open. That means the smell from wax is milder than the smell from e-nails despite the fact that they both use the same substance.
Oil Cartridges
Oil extracts are milder than wax extracts and the same goes for the odor that they produce. The scent from CBD or THC cartridges is very mild and dissipates very quickly, making these the stealthiest method of using weed.
Final Thoughts
To answer the question in the title: yes, vaporizers do smell like weed, but not for long and the smell doesn’t stay with you. That’s yet another advantage that vaping weed has over smoking it. The weed smell from vaporizers is a lot easier to manage and is arguably more pleasant than the weed smell from smoke. So, you won’t be able to completely eliminate the weed smell with vaporizers, but at least it won’t outstay its welcome.
