Item #: SCP-2454-JP
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: All recovered SCP-2454-JP instances are currently stored in the low risk item storage vault at Site-22. In case any new SCP-2454-JP instances are discovered, the branch responsible for the location of discovery is to dispatch a recovery crew to store them at a nearby site in a non-dry condition.
Due to the extremely low likelihood of SCP-2454-JP instances being discovered by civilians and the exceedingly minor nature of their anomalous properties, no active attempts to recover them have been undertaken at this time.
Description: SCP-2454-JP is the designation assigned to multiple live ammunition with a weak cognitohazardous effect. To date, the Foundation has secured and contained a total of ten SCP-2454-JP instances; each of them, without exception, shares the same structure as the type of live round most commonly used at the location of recovery.
SCP-2454-JP induces a cognitohazardous alteration of the sense of smell and dulling of the sense of taste in the human being directly contacted with it (hereinafter referred to as “the subject”). This cognitohazard causes the subject to perceive the smell of the metal comprising SCP-2454-JP as slightly sweet. Other than its cognitohazardous effects, SCP-2454-JP has not been observed to have any other anomalous traits or to be resistant to destruction, and is known to lose its anomalous properties when rendered unfireable by factors such as excessive deterioration or damage.
Addendum: SCP-2454-JP instances were once stored at the Foundation French Branch as AO-965-FR "Bullets that temporarily impair the sense of smell by direct contact," as well as at the Chinese Branch as AO-CN-6824 "Bullets that produce a sweet scent when touched."
In 1943, several suspicious corpses were reported near Site-90, then in the midst of the siege of Leningrad, with evidence of having swallowed a large number of bullets, which led to an investigation and the discovery of three new SCP-2454-JP instances. Upon this discovery, the anomaly was assigned a provisional designation number, and was officially designated as SCP-2454-JP in 1946, when further instances were discovered on Iejima, Okinawa, Japan.
The fact that no SCP-2454-JP instances have been detected in the manufacturing process or in the ammunition depots of various countries, and that the instances recovered to date have been found inside the esophagus or in the excrement of soldiers in wartime conflicts, suggests that its anomalous properties are acquired.