What's in a Bovida pack?
Ethylene glycolic ~ 70% rh
Silica ~ 65% rh
Silica + lithium chloride ~65-70% rh
All of these are above range for Cannabis. Of course that didn't stop them from recommending these numbers, based on tobacco leaf data (which is nothing like cannabis flower/resin).
There must be silica + calcium chloride in the packs.
When you add calcium chloride to water, the vapor heats and hydrochloric acid is formed. Many Cannabis volatiles are acetated terpenoids, meaning the volatile is attached acetic acid, a weak acid. Hydrochloric being a stronger acid will displace acetate from acetated terpenoids, creating free acetic acid. This is how Bovida ruined our Cannabis in the one and only study we did.
If Boveda doesn't make your OG Kush smell like vinegar, then you don't have the real OG Kush. Acetated volatiles are characteristic of OG Kush, and are the reason for its popularity. Boveda does research with borneol, linalool, myrcene, limonene etc, not bornyl acetate, linyl acetate, myrcenyl acetate, limonyl acetate, etc. The former are generic cheap easily sourced terpenes which are present is endless things from trees to fruit to meat, but do not characterize these natural products by simply being present. The latter are very characteristic of Cannabis.
Once you get passed the "Weed smells like myrcene pinene limonene" broscience narrative, you can start contributing to this discussion in a logical way. We do flavor trials, and roughly 25% of panelists completely fabricate their own smell and flavor data. A much larger percentage simply cannot detect specific scent molecules, with only the ability to discern functional groups. This is why acetone and the banana methyl heptenones are confused by many people, as they are both ketones. This is why a vast majority of Cannabis is called "gas" when it smells anything from lemons to plastics to fuels; they are detecting alkenes. This is why most people think synthetic banana, isomyl acetate, smells nothing like real banana methyl ketone esters, even though they are very similar in aroma. Most people cannot tell a burnt match from a burning tire from skunk spray, they only detect thiols. These people's opinions can be discounted regarding smell. I'm bit sure the evolutionary function that has inflicted the majority of humans with the inability discern smell, but you can use your imagination after watching a few episodes of Hoarders
I've spent a vast amount of time learning to decode the majority's inability to discern smell and taste and the predisposition to lie about those abilities. Relying on layman input would destroy the flavor industry over the long term, as the human body slowly discern what's good even when the nose and taste buds can't. There are no cannabis experts in the flavor community as they would create flavors of the week that the human body tires of quickly. No one has ever tired of a Snickers bar. This is why Mars is where they are, they work with capable professionals and use real world data, not information from other sectors which are irrelevant to their product, tobacco leaf alkaloids to Cannabis lipids being the noteworthy irrelevant parallel here.
When someone says Cannabis smells like sweet gas for example. I know it does not smell sweet or like fuel whatsoever, but like cannabis that's been overfed phosphorus which it cannot process, altering its phospholipid profile. We know to throw the majority of layman reports out the window, it takes very little to discern who doesn't have honest self reporting. 1/4 of the population is literally pretending they can smell, while another 1/2 have absolutely no discernment of what they are smelling nor its concentration, they simply detect the associated hydrocarbon in a static value.
Its time to stop listening to the layman if you want a future in Cannabis production. Even those with no ability to smell or taste will gravitate toward good tasting cannabis over the long term. Bovida does not provide good tasting Cannabis, it rips the hard work of the plant apart, chemically, as proven by scientific studies which will never be available to layman as no one with a grasp on this concept needs a cult of data worshippers misinterpreting and subsequently disregarding the data. This has an effect on poorly funded research which relies on panelists with more prejudice than skill of discernment.
We support poorly funded research by limiting preconception. It's only pharmaceutical outfits that seem hell bent on creating false narratives and spreading misinterpreted data in the Cannabis realm, namely GW Pharma who grows Skunk #1 and quantifies its lipoxygenase products rather than its useless aroma therapy terpenes.