His brow furrowed at that, having to think it over, finally coming around to: "Paper, mostly, different kinds of it, but paint too, and solvents a little, not too much, and graphite, a lot of graphite under it all. That's what they smell like to me, they'll probably smell a lot stronger to you, you might even be able to smell things like modeling clay and maybe dried flowers, for some reason most of the people who work in art stores smell like dried flowers."

It was one of those things he'd never really questioned, as it helped him identify that he was in the right place.