I don't know what kind of crack the person who told you that smelled or smoked but not like peppermint at all.

I've never smoked it but I've smelled it and it has a somewhat sweet but burnt metallic smell to it but I suppose that is from the pipe more than the crack itself.

My ex husband's uncle's girlfriend would climb on the kitchen table chairs and start yelling about the snakes on the floor EVERY SINGLE TIME she'd smoke crack. I could never understand why she'd hallucinate the same thing every time and how that was enjoyable but I guess people could say the same thing about that good opiate itch I loved when I used pain pills. To each their own...🙃