At a local book-shop, browsing fiction. Love the special, sensitive smell of wrinkled, weathered pages in well-used library books! Awesome aroma of an adored book is strangely pleasant. A scent of wood, vanilla? Sweet musky notes. A unique sensory experience.
Biblichor, a word describing smell of an old book. Combine’s Greek words ‘biblio’ (book) with ‘ichor‘ (fluid flowing like blood in God’s).
Frequently used descriptives are chocolates, coffee, almond’s. Library smeller’s select words like woody, smoky, earthy, peaty based on perceived intensity. Odour of eggs!
Scientist’s relate with smell of rain, memory of grand-mother’s cooking. There’s just something so special about books. An undying love that light’s our lives, forever.