These fragrances will transport you to old libraries. So many scents swirling around - first of all the old books (a combination of grassy notes with a tang of acids and a hint of vanilla over an underlying mustiness), new books (ink, paper, leather, glue), papers, leather, binding glue, wood shelving, paneling, flooring, tables, chairs, etc. Some words used to describe old libraries are: woody, smoky, earthy, musty, dusty, sweet and vanillic.
She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds. - Author: Shannon Hale
There is something about libraries, old libraries, that makes them seem almost sacred. There's a smell of paper and must and binding stuff. It's like all the books are fighting against decay, against turning into dust, and at the same time fighting for attention. - Author: Carrie Jones
You will receive a 1/2ml sample (1ml sample vial filled half full) of each of the fragrances in this sampler.
- Ghoulish Goods Haunted Library Perfume Oil - This scent will transport you to an old Victorian library. With ceiling high wooden book shelves, creaky floorboards, leather bound books covered in a blanket of dust, fragile yellowing pages and musty tufted chairs. Wafting through it all is the scent of sweet tobacco; the scent of the spirit that haunts these walls. With top notes of teakwood and tonka; middle notes of cedar, leather, sweet tobacco and molasses; and base notes of sandalwood, patchouli, mahogany and dark musk.
- Immortal Perfumes Dead Writers Perfume Oil – The scent of old libraries and the ghosts of words past await in this bookish blend.
- Calyx Fragrance Library Perfume Oil - "If peace had a smell, it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books." - Mark Pryor. This scent will transport you to another time and place. Bring the Library home and breathe in the warm scents of old leather bindings, foxed pages, and dusty wooden shelves - the smell of peace. A warm, woody, leathery dusty fragrance.
- Ms. Bathory Apothecary Forbidden Knowledge Perfume Oil – With notes of old paper, antique woodwork, cedar desks, benzoin and the faint memory of vanilla perfume.
- The Little Book Eater Rolls of Parchment Perfume Oil - Inspired by the historical writing medium used by writers. Reminiscent of medieval monasteries and the rare manuscripts section of modern libraries. An antique, spicy/sweet blend of peppercorn, vanilla, nutmeg and tonka bean.
- Calyx Fragrance The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal Perfume Oil - The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal is a dark, woody, smoky, earthy and sweet scent. Welcome to Nineveh, the sprawling capital of Assyria and largest city in the world. The year is 650 BCE and King Ashurbanipal has been assembling the greatest collection of written texts for his royal library. Housing over 10,000 clay and wax tablets on science, poetry, business, medicine, religion, and mathematics, this is one of the first organized libraries in the world. The swollen Tigris River flows by, feeding the city's canals and aqueducts, providing water to the palace's breathtaking tiered gardens. Fragrant juniper, cypress, and rosewood trees scent the warm breeze, blending with incense smoke from the nearby temple. As you pass through the royal library's arch, the rich aroma of dried clay fills your senses. With notes of cypress, juniper, rosewood and incense, with hints of clay, wax, exotic flowers and wisdom.
