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Friday, February 6, 2009

Books They Forgot the All-Important Hint of Hobo Pee

Posted by on Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:12 PM

ffdb/1233947000-306wpbotlibrary.jpg In the Library is a perfume that smells like libraries. I'm not a big perfume fan, but I have a feeling I'd like this. The website claims that the scent is "English Novel taken from a Signed First Edition of one of my very favorite novels, Russian & Moroccan leather bindings, worn cloth and a hint of wood polish." And the story of the perfume explains it further:

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!

I'm surprised nobody's thought of this before now.

 

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1
My wife has this, she loves it and it actually smells pretty good.
Posted by Amnt on February 6, 2009 at 1:39 PM
2
i love the word "hobo".
Posted by birdy num num on February 6, 2009 at 1:48 PM
3
They used to sell this in the Central Library gift kiosk-- in fact it's probably still there and on sale. Having personally sniffed it I wouldn't say it smells like books-- just a subtle "not-nothing" smell. Great in theory, though.
Posted by cml on February 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM
4
Tried it, it smells fantastic. Totally the smell of the little neighborhood used bookstore.
Posted by wench on February 6, 2009 at 2:19 PM
5
It needs a touch of alcoholic B.O. too.
Posted by Gern Blanston on February 6, 2009 at 2:24 PM
6
Demeter also makes a scent called "Paperback," if you're in to that sort of thing...
Posted by mb on February 6, 2009 at 2:30 PM
7
Next they'll introduce a perfume called "At the Bus Stop", followed by "O de Movie Theatre".
Posted by Reverse Polarity on February 6, 2009 at 2:52 PM
8
hmmmm....for Seattle it would be a combination of various Hobo excretionary smells, the stench of young fratboys and homosexuals (excessive amounts of A&F cologne), the aroma of an organic pita sandwich being surreptiously eaten by the on the go baby Bjorn toting, Prius driving soccer mom, the b.o. of that natural bike ridin' hipster dude in the Penguin cap and vintage polo shirt, a wet labradoodle wearing a bandana, a coffee drinking senior in a greasy beret and the waft of patchouli and hemp from the Hippie chick using a computer to research her next trip to Machu Pichu, or Berkeley or Wimminfest.
Posted by michael strangeways on February 6, 2009 at 2:56 PM
9
@8
quite a list ... where do you fit in?
Posted by Pee Satained Hobo on February 6, 2009 at 3:13 PM
10
damn...joke name fails when misspelled!

Move back 3 spaces.
Posted by Pee Stained Hobo on February 6, 2009 at 3:15 PM
11
God, I love the smell of books. But, not enough to wear perfume that smells like the smell of books.
Posted by PopTart on February 6, 2009 at 4:56 PM
12
i work in a library.
you touch the most disgusting things ever working in a library.
people have no consideration for public property. books come back with unknown stains, smells, varying dergrees of stickiness. sometimes i wish people would just tell us what it is they are smearing all over the books.
so i would have to disagree. books smell disgusting because they are disgusting.
Posted by glamour died here. on February 6, 2009 at 7:19 PM
13
Makes me wheeze just thinking about it. "Hint of mildew" indeed.
Posted by threnody on February 6, 2009 at 8:36 PM
14
don't forget about when the hobos poop in the sinks... definite library aroma
Posted by Hobos poop on themselves quite a bit too on February 6, 2009 at 9:57 PM
15
OMG! Want want want want want!
Posted by violet_dagrinder on February 6, 2009 at 10:42 PM
16
I was kinda hope for that "New Bookstore Smell" perfume instead.

(The smell of sweaty vinyl seats, nudie art books with their plastic wrappers stuffed behind them, a child's discard juice box, and just a hint of Starbucks.)
Posted by Sad Comment on February 7, 2009 at 1:36 AM
17
don't forget the smell of diapers wafting from the restroom.
Posted by slide_lib on February 10, 2009 at 11:37 AM

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