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Why Old Books Smell Good
“Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge in all of us.”
- From Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez’s Perfumes: the guide
From the Green Apple Core blog (Green Apple Books).
Posted on April 1, 2011 with 17,751 notes ()
Source: thegreenapplecore.blogspot.com
Hi. I'm Sarah. I'm using this as a place to show off things I find interesting through-out my day. Bio: Crafty biblio/info -phile, libraries, gardening, current events, thinker, dreamer and random blog poster.
Side note: "Just don't tell the squirrels" was something I was heard saying in my sleep once as a wee one.
