Your budtender is able to answer all the usual questions like the right temperature for growing weed and which strains are best for light relaxation, but sometimes budtenders get some real oddball questions.
Asking why cannabis smells like poop isn’t as strange as you might think. Cannabis has a lot of complicated aromas and is closer to fine wine and cheese pairings than most people expect. Your cannabis might smell like poop because it went bad or because that’s just how that strain smells.
Here’s what budtenders say about the occasionally offputting aromas of weed.
Comparing Cannabis to Wine
Wine in cannabis have a lot in common. They both have complicated flavor profiles that you get to experience the more you come to enjoy these products.
If you just started seriously enjoying wine, it’s going to take some time before you can pick up on all of the subtle notes and flavors that come with a fine wine. The same is true for cannabis. Beginner smokers often prefer cannabis strains that have fruity or dessert like aromas. More experienced smokers build up an appreciation for the strains that can smell like diesel for freshly tilled dirt.
It doesn’t mean that those strains are better or worse. It just means that there are certain flavors and scents in the world of cannabis that might not be as first-timer friendly as others.
A Few of Weed’s Tougher Natural Scents
Cannabis legalization has helped many people in countless ways. One of the more subtle ways is it allows individuals who enjoy cannabis to explore the wide range of flavors and scents that come with this plant. Cannabis is known for its potent aroma and a few of these strands are much stronger than others.
If you’re looking to explore some of cannabis’s most potent smells, look for strains with the diesel name. These strands are known to produce that potent cannabis aroma that you can’t mistake for everything else.
As a general rule of thumb, strains that are named cake have much lighter aromaz that can have tons of vanilla as well as citrus.
What About “Spoiled” Weed?
Not all strong smelling weed is good weed. While it could just be you bought a particularly potent Diesel strain, it could also be the case that your weed has gone bad.
This is another thing weed has in common with wine. Wine can become “corked” which is a term in the wine world for wines that have picked up a foul scent and taste after being bottled. It’s pretty rare, but it does happen to even well-respected vintners.
It’s just part of the wine world.
The world of cannabis has similar problems. After your weed is harvested and dried, it goes through a process called “curing” that locks in the terpenes—the chemicals responsible for weed’s tastes and smells. The success of the curing process largely depends on the grow room temperature and humidity.
It’s possible for weed to go “bad” during curing which leads to some pretty funky smells.
The Big Lesson: Smell Before You Buy
If you buy from a reputable grower, you can trust that they are going to keep their grow room temp and humidity under control. However, if you want to make sure you never miss, you should always smell before you buy.
This allows you to make sure that the weed is in the condition that you’re looking for. You never want to be surprised by opening up the cannabis products when you get home to realize that they’ve all gone South.
Smelling before you buy also helps you build a nose for the world of cannabis. Just like fine wines have a bouquet that is just as good as their taste, cannabis strains offer up a lot of information based on their smell.
What if You Want to Try Truly Dank Cannabis?
So, you’ve read through this article and you’re curious about the cannabis strains that have the strongest smells? These don’t usually smell like poop, but they have scents that can knock your socks off. Here’s a list of the loudest, skunkiest, dankest cannabis strains you can find.
- Sour Diesel
- Trainwreck
- Chemdog
- Northern Lights
You can always stop into your local cannabis dispensary and ask you but tender for a cannabis strain that’s going to offer you the experience you’re looking for.
