[GH85Carrera]

In pure form it must have a strong smell from what the show depicts. The scene that prompted the question showed a man rolling a large suitcase along a corridor at the airport, and he just rolled past a cop and the cop alerted to the "strong odor" of coke. He had 12 bricks of very pure cocaine pressed into hard bricks with a logo (that they blurred for TV) on them to show the buyer they were pure and from a certain source.

All the customs and border agents and the cops all mentioned the strong odor.

I process film for 25 years. We would get 100s of rolls of film in per day, many still in the plastic cans Kodak sold the film in. I spent a lot of time dumping the 35mm film cans out of the plastic cans, and tossing the plastic cans in a special trash can just for the plastic cans. More than once I dumped out some funny green "tea" leaves that were in the can, and I just called some of the the other employees over to please "dispose" of it, and no one ever objected to cleaning it up. One time there was a lot of white powder in one can. Several employees were happy to taste it and rub it on their gums, and dispose of it. I never thought to ask if it had a taste or odor. I could not imagine putting an totally unknown white powder in my mouth. Belch.