I keep most of my raw pigments in small glass jars, mixed into a paste with distilled water. Did you know that earth pigments have a smell? Of course they do; when you mix them with water, you get a sort of mud, and mud has a smell. The earths have a deep, loamy smell that makes me think of the first artists painting brilliantly and expressively with ochres on cave walls.
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