The stuff smells foul! Skelettets has been banished from his usual painting perch by 'er indoors when using it & I try hard not to get a lungful 'cos retching for 15 minutes does nothing for my brush control! Not that I'd want to suggest it was hideously piosonous/toxic but compared to the inconsequential scent of GW or Vallejo acrylics I was rather shocked upon opening my first pot of TCR