Hi Katie,
I've been looking for a perfume or candle for a young woman that captures the scent of a bookstore. Any suggestions? I've read that Dzing! by L’Artisan Parfumeur is close, but I'd like your professional opinion.
Thanks,
Parker
CB I Hate Perfume has a scent called In the Library, which highlights the sweet, borderline mildewy aspect of library books. It's evocative of tomes in an old building, but doesn't smell like hot-off-the-press books with their fresh, crisp pages and fresh, crisp ink.
I'd go for Comme des Garçons Odeur 71, which possesses a photocopier ozonic charge, along with a slightly-burnt woody smell that conjures fresh paper -- and B.O.
I don’t know about y’all, but I always smell B.O. in bookstores. I’m not sure if the B.O. "aromatics" are the result of keyed-up bookworms’ overactive sweat glands, or something in the chemical makeup of new books that mimics it.
It’s a great smell, and always gets me “gingered up”, as the Brits say. Something to do with having a crush on a bookstore employee back when I was a teenager, and spending many hours doing some nubile lurking behind the stacks.
And despite the unconventional nature of these odors as perfumes notes, they all smell dandy on the skin.
Fumeheads – can you recommend some bookstore scents for Parker?
Demeter Paperback, for as long as it lasts, smells very much like a used paperback exchange, minus the surly proprietor.
ReplyDeletemoon-grrl, Paperback certainly sounds like a contender.
ReplyDeleteFor candles, Henri Bendel has one (is it Vanilla Bean or Vanilla Woods?) that smells bookish. The Firewood candle is to die for, but admittedly not a bookstore smell.
ReplyDeleteOoh yeah, Angi, you just reminded me that Le Labo Vanille 44 has that woody-vanilla intersection that smells like paper. But Parker would have to go to Paris for that, since it's a Paris "city exclusive". Dayam.
ReplyDeleteanything with musk in and/or vanilla
ReplyDeleteS'funny, thekat, those do seem to be the culprits in "bookalike" scents.
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