jkirsten15 asked:
I’m doing this creative writing thing and I have to describe the way a book store smells – don’t ask. Anyway, I want to say it smells like books, but what does a book smell like?
Tags: Book Store, Books, Creative Writing
That smell of newly printed bank notes, that smell of dusty strangers, the smell of the academic, the geek, the writer, the mom looking for something to read on holiday, the emo checkout boy wishing he was somewhere else.
book stores smell like statbucks coffee and newly printed paper throw in a little bit of a “someone in here didnt shower” fragerence and there ya have it.
If you’ve read Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury describes books as smelling like nutmeg… They’re a bit of a combination of nutmeg, cinnamon, dust, and leather…
Papery, musty, cool, dry… It depends on whether it’s a new book store or a used book store. A used book store might smell dusty; a new one might smell like the café that’s attached to the store.
they smell like freshly printed books. The smell of the ink press.
Paper and ink on paper?
Smells intelligent to me, smells like knowledge
Smells like new books waiting eagerly to be opened an read. LOL so cheesy!
you should pick up a book and smell the indside and the first thing that pops into your head, right down
i don’t have a book next to me so i can’t do it for you, sorry
if you need it literally it smells like stiff, dry, and dusty
but if you want to be clever and non literal you could say something cheesy like it smells of knowledge ready to be opened. haha (:
or if you want to refer to a Barnes and Noble bookstore that most of the time have a starbucks in them you could say it smells of coffee
It definitely smells like a forest, with white ground full of black trees!
Antiquated or archaic, I’d say, musty with the smell of the yellowing pages of stories growing old. I’m thinking of old bookshops though.
In Waterstones for example, books smell like new paper and ink. Make it more exciting by alluding to something e.g. the aroma of untold stories, mystery and broken secrets.
it depends on the book store.
if you enter an antique book store, it’s a sort of musky scent of dilapidated books, sort of like a forest as it ages. It doesn’t smell rotten, but it’s almost like you can sense the wisdom in the aging tomes.
if go go into, say, borders, your most likely to smell some plastic from the wrapping, and the crisp newness of the pages.
if you go into a place that resembles a library, it smells like a combination of the two, where the scent of timeworn books mingle with with the scent of new volumes, maybe there will be one of those cheap pine-scented thingy, but mostly the lingering fragrance of trees is prominent.
But the older the store, the heavier the scent.
the newer, the more artificial.
help you any?
There’s a distinctive smell in the book store.New books have this ‘just off the press’,synthetic smell,not unpleasant at all,a refined plastic aroma that comes from the cover.It’s a weirdly fresh smell,a ‘new’ smell,far removed from the dust and must of faded,browning volumes of years gone by..
The smell promises crispness.You know that even before picking up a volume.You can be assured that the smell itself guarantees a clinical whiteness as soon as you peek inside.Pasteurised,purified from the printing press,unblemished and unturned;each page a testament to the modern process that gives off this factory fresh fragrance that is-and only can be-associated with a newly published book,hot off the press but like a dish from the oven,cooling now and with a salivating seduction that is begging you to browse and then buy
just go and smell one
although i would say kind of papery and old
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October 6th, 2009 at 12:39 am
Book stores smell like dry ink, parchment, and nerds.