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Summary
It smelled different. And yes, after three years of traveling around the world, experiencing so many different places and people, having to get along in a plethora of different cultures, eating different foods, speaking different languages, being intimately acquainted with more oddities than most people encounter in a lifetime, one could imagine he might be mistaken. But he wasn’t.
The scents that were disconcertingly different were those of the flat. 221b. Even through the windows on the fire escape he could tell that changes had been afoot. Of course the chemical and decompositional smells had been eradicated, that was a given. But even John’s familiar combination of musk, leather, and wool was compromised by something both saccharine and sharp. And maybe even a floral note...?
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