It seems silly to chop trees down to make pencils; that little graphite rod in the center is the active ingredient, and the other 95% of the pencil is essentially a wasteful, disposable wooden handle.
Smencils makes their pencils by tightly wrapping newspaper around the graphite rod, then hardening it so it can be sharpened like a regular pencil. They also take advantage of newspapers' absorbent quality by pre-soaking them in liquid fragrances, hence the name; Smencils come in "flavors" like Chocolate, Watermelon, Orange, etc. (The previously available Toasted Marshmallow, alas, has been discontinued.)
You can also order custom-printed Smencils, though there's currently no option to spec out your own fragrance. Too bad--it'd be nice to disrupt your classmates by taking the SAT's to the strong smell of Drakkar Noir.
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