Advice on a portable that doesn't smell

There's really very little difference between portables in this respect. The user determines how much smell there is by controlling the amount of vapor exhaled and keeping the vape clean. Those two factors are much more important than the vape design.

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I have to disagree here. The design makes a lot of difference. A device like the Pax is always heating the load and therefore gets pretty smelly in a hurry. A device like the MFLB only heats on demand.

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The major determination of odor is still up to the user IMO. I've used enclosed heating chambers as well as the LB, and that one has smelled as much as any for me, if not more, if it's not clean.

My LB doesn't smell much at all, but I've always dried my material thoroughly. Damp weed will make your LB smell for sure. Having said that, there's no comparison to a Pax that has been on for a while. It's not even close. If you're turning it on for a second round on a load, the Pax absolutely reeks to the point where I (and others) find it offensive. It no longer has that fresh weed aroma, it just stinks of ABV. Plenty of stories in the Pax thread of people with the same experience.

I can't see how any device that continuously heats the load can be discreet in terms of odour. The smell given off by heating will always be stronger than residual smell from a dirty device simply because heating creates convection currents that will inevitably circulate and distribute the odour.