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Wit is periodically disensouled
06/07/09

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"Musty from being stored in someone's basement" - I love that smell, no lie.
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clevernamehere
06/07/09

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I'm so not interested in ebooks and I tend to think they won't replace paper books if an early MP3 player owner like me isn't interested.

I'm not into the smell of books, but these things don't seem as easy to read from as an actual book (although I've only briefly seen them). Plus, you can't pass books on like this. The publishers must love them for that, but its a serious downside in my opinion that I wouldn't be able to lend a book to my mom or sell a used book with an ebook. They sound great for a student until I remember that you'd be out the whole cost and not able to sell any of them back.
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Ipomoea
06/07/09

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Are they going to follow it up with "Patron Left It In Their Car For Three Weeks While Chain-Smoking With The Windows Up", "Someone Spilled Juicy Couture On This", and my favorite "Unidentifiable Smell That Is Part Stale Cigarettes, Part Stale Beer, Part Body Odor, and Possibly All Hangover". That last one is usually turned in late on a Monday.
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Whiskey and Popcorn
06/07/09

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Sexy stuff, that new book smell. Love it. Get odd looks in bookstores but still.
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cuteasabutton
06/07/09

@Whiskey and Popcorn: Oh me too! I always judge a book by its smell!
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morninggloria
06/07/09

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If I spray it in my eyes, does it count as reading?
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ImproperDancing
06/07/09

@morninggloria: It would certainly be a learning experience.
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save jinger
06/07/09

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I think I'll just stick to paper books. Ones that don't smell like bacon, no less.
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happysquid
06/07/09

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Oyy. I share the same sentiments on Ebooks as Ray Bradbury...
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tomatoheart
06/07/09

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Ok, I've hesitated* to post a link to my favorite perfumer here, but I will.

[www.cbihateperfume.com]

My favorite?

I love books, particularly old ones. I cannot pass a second hand bookshop and rarely come away without at least one additional volume. I now have quite a collection!

Whenever I read, the start of the journey is always opening the book and breathing deeply. Don't you find there are few things more wonderful than the smell of a much-loved book? Newly printed books certainly smell very different from older ones. The ink is so crisp. I've also noticed that books from different periods & different countries also have very different smells. And then there are the scents of different bindings: leather is marvelous of course but I find a peculiar pleasure in musty worn clothbound books as well. Perhaps just a hint of mildew!

The main note in this scent was copied from one of my favorite books - I happened to find a signed first edition of this novel a few years ago in London. I was more than a little excited because there were only ever a hundred in the first place!

*I don't necessarily want my favorite scents to be worn by every jezzie
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andBegorrah
06/07/09

@tomatoheart: How is its staying power? I love the single-note Demeter perfumes, but they fade in less than an hour.
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tomatoheart
06/07/09

@andBegorrah: the "absolutes" are awesome. 100x better than Demeter.
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recidivicious
06/07/09

@tomatoheart: The Russian Caravan one sounds fantastic. I might have to try one of those sometime, although as it is I have far too many bottles already from Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab, which I'll post the link to in case anyone here is interested and hasn't gotten addicted to them yet.

[www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com]
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tomatoheart
06/07/09

@recidivicious: i like BPAL as well, though there's something about the way that CB does his scents that just blows me away. They are so carefully constructed.

I have a few imps of BPAL that I need to get rid of...i should do that before i move.
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limber
06/07/09

@tomatoheart: Excellent! I was just about to mention CB!

I think the thing with CB is that his perfumes aren't really meant to be worn for the benefit others. Like, I can splash on other perfumes with the intention of having other people enjoy it, but I never do that with CB. His stuff's more like an aura, and I pick to be in-tune with however I'm feeling (or want to feel). But never for someone else.

I usually wear In The Library when I'm writing something that's meant to sound or feel old, like steampunky stuff. I looooove Caravan, that one's just comforting and close. And that 1966 Beach one's great, very accurate and reminds me of summers spent lifeguarding.

But he's also got Violet Empire, which is otherworldly to me. Sigh. They're all great, really. And as far as I know, none of them smell of freaking bacon.
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limber
06/07/09

@andBegorrah: I'd be careful wearing In The Library out and about. It does smell exactly like a leather-bound book from the 19th century, and there's a certain mustiness to it that might result in funny looks in public.
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poires et poireaux
06/07/09

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Yay! That means I don't have to get my eBook wet in the bath first to achieve musty book smell!
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SomeAuthorGirl
06/07/09

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Modern Humanity somehow managing to invent something that is even less kind to the environment than paper. The non-recycled kind.

Proof that we're all doomed, in a can.
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andBegorrah
06/07/09

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Can dog-earring pages be considered scratch 'n sniff?
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dearheart
06/07/09

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Smell I refuse to smell (hold breath) when a book is turned in with a piece of toilet paper as a bookmark.

More than once, people. More than once.
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cuteasabutton
06/07/09

@dearheart: NO WAY!
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Uncommon Whore
06/07/09

@dearheart: I do this with my books at home, mostly because I have it there to dab my eyes when reading a particularly sad book. Current example - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I've been doing a lot of dabbing with that one.

Please note I own this book, it isn't from the library.
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dissolver
06/07/09

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... Okay, I understand most of those scents, but CRUNCHY BACON? WHY? How are bacon and books related? Bacon trend, I am officially sick of you.
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ImproperDancing
06/07/09

@dissolver: Charlotte's Web. There's a reference to "crunchy bacon" in the book when Templeton the rat goes to get words for Charlotte to put in her web to describe Wilbur the pig as.
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Uncommon Whore
06/07/09

@ImproperDancing: That is right where my mind went... thanks for validating that.

I love Templeton.
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VirginiaDentata
06/07/09

@ImproperDancing: Oh. I thought it was as in--nerd alert--Francis Bacon. Thanks for clearing that up, this makes more sense.
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