Is there anything better than the smell of a used bookstore?

[BlueIris]

My whole bedroom smells like a used bookstore. (I recently bought a carload worth of books from a local store's closing sale, and the scent has permeated my room, as well as much of the house.)

It's a great smell. Book-y. Intellectual. Soothing. Does anything top it?

[annabanana]

1. the back of a baby's neck

(a mother's favorite)

[grasswire]

2. yes, a used bookstore that sells coffee.

Mmmm.

[panader0]

3. A woman

Especially a woman in a used book store that sells coffee, and she had eaten garlic recently.

[zeemike]

7. Or

A woman that has just had sex in a used book store that sells coffee without eating garlic.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. Yes - perfume. I'm a book lover but old books are mite hotels nt

[laconicsax]

5. Yes--several foods

[customerserviceguy]

6. I'm kind of partial to a brewery, myself

but bakeries are all right, too!

[Captain Hilts]

8. I'm still pissed that Federal Realty kicked Second Story Books outta Bethesda because...

it brought in the 'wrong' element.

[BlueIris]

9. I feel that.

People just have no concept of what makes a civilization anymore.

[Forkboy]

10. It's the smell of knowledge.

:)

[petronius]

11. Yes - the smell behind the ear of the cat that lives in the used bookstore after

said cat has been sleeping in a sunny window on a pile of books for a few hours...