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View all products by this brand →Thread Analysis: The user is asking for a unique scent experience, which implies the post is primarily humorous and self-referential.
Cardinal Scent’s Gentle Reader - old book pages, vanillin, orris butter, vintage amber. I’ve tried a bunch of different book scents and a lot of them go hard on the leather (which leather tomes are cool but aren’t the smell I was trying to find) or have too many additional things going on (a lot of tobacco). Gentle Reader smells exactly like they managed to bottle the yellowing 70s paperbacks that I grew up on, it is really special. There is also Sunsphere Scents’ Hodges - forgotten books, vanilla, orris, sheer woods - which I think is a little more full but still smells like book pages. It’s not quite as one to one for me, but is definitely a good representative. Those are my two favorites.
Thread Analysis: The user is asking for a unique scent experience, which implies the post is primarily humorous and self-referential.
>Cardinal Scent’s Gentle Reader 100% this. It's the GOAT of book smells
Thread Analysis: The user is asking for a unique scent experience, which implies the post is primarily humorous and self-referential.
Thread Analysis: The post is primarily humorous and cultural, discussing the evocative power of scents in books.
Cardinal Scents Gentle Reader is my preferred perfume to just smell like a book.
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Cardinal Scents. Lovely fragrances - while they have a specifically "witchy" scent, their overall branding vibe is much more straightforward and professional.