Purges wrote:
RE the smell, DMT smells flowery to me, maybe the 'synthetic' smell was impurities?
ditto.. "synthetic smell" to me sounds like naptha trapped in the crystals, they're not being dried properly otherwise.... The gooey fraction of the freeze precip you aim to remove by recyrstalizing - the thick oily, often caustic, stains the dmt from yellow to amber-brown, and adds harsh throat burn when smoked, will always retain naptha residue unless a seperate cleanup proceedure is done to clean up a smokable oil from the mother liquor. Once the freebase oil is seperated from the freebase crystal, then the recrystallized clean crystal portion will smell flowery indeed once it is very thoroughly air-dried, not taking more than a few days, even air drying.
The oil component present in an impure freeze precip yield, however, traps a lot of naptha in the uncrystallized product, and takes days of repeatedly being finely ground and pressed on filter papers and left to dry, suspended...
OP: no "chemical smell", only "flowery smell or hardly a smell at all" is good. that means you have a little to no naptha in your product. Test a sample by capping it in a small bottle for a day, then opening and smelling... if the naptha still wafts out first, then you smell the floweriness, the crystals still needs to be ground and dried further, IME