Book Loft

my first love from bath and body works. the notes on the bottle are crisp bergamot, neroli, and cozy woods. i think that it must be brighter and pepper-y on paper because on my clothes and skin it just reads so cozy and comforting. i'm not the biggest fan of clean scents in terms of what i prefer to wear, but this truly makes me so happy every time i smell it. it's clean and comforting without being boring and screechy. i want to buy every product they sell in this scent. it's that bad. i think you have to separate the name from the scent for sure. it's not really a direct book or paper scent. it reminds me of being cozied up in a ruffle of fresh warm bedsheets and fluffy pillows while you read a library book. it's woody and powdery like a book can be, though the neroli stops it from being a true stick your nose in a book scent. staying power is okay, definitely not a strong sillage, but maybe with layering the scent can project a little more. makes me want to try l'eau papier.

Ugh I love this scent sooo much, so disappointed they didnt bring it back for the fall this year. I ended up buying Diptyque L'eau Papier because of this, and honestly this one is a little better. Leau Papier has a little bit of sweetness to it that this doesn't have, and that gives this an edge. I definitely feel the paper vibe. Something about it gives the vibe of opening a brand new book and smelling/feeling the dry, crisp clean white pages of it and hearing the crisp page turning noises as you turn the page lol. This is more dry, clean and powdery than Leau Papier. Very VERY similar though and both are stellar fragrances. I also bought the BDK Saint Honore fragrance because it's supposed to smell similar to Leau Papier and to me that one is the worst of these three, and doesn't smell as crisp and paper-y as these two. I also bought an arab supposed dupe of this and Leau Papier online recently and will update my review when I get it.

I blind-bought this, thinking it would be a good dupe of Diptyque Papier.... Its not. But it's actually better, in my opinion. Its slightly more floral- but bergamot, whereas Papier is mimosa. Bookloft does not have the pepper that is a main in Papier. It sits softly on the skin, and really gives off a calm, composed feeling. The listed notes here are completely wrong, there is absolutely no mahogany or lavender. I actually went around my office holding two testers- one with Papier, and the other with Bookloft. I asked which one they thought was the $200 fragrance vs the $20, and whether they were similar enough for one to be a "dupe". The results were split 50/50 on the price, and most agreed that its a good dupe, just Papier had pepper, which is absent in Bookloft.

i needed some time with this one. on first impression on paper, all i got was neroli and while it felt summer-appropriate, it wasn’t what i expected or wanted. on revisiting it, again on paper, i got more bergamot. and then on my third impression, i wore it heavily on my skin and clothes, and i fell in love. maybe i just needed more time to get to know the scent, or maybe the other smells in store were distorting the notes. yes, you definitely get neroli and bergamot, but the scent texture is overall surprisingly creamy, with a fuzzy musk heavily underlying the whole scent experience. it’s so cozy but still so classy, and perfectly unisex. it also performs and lasts surprisingly well for a clean musk scent!

Can confirm that this smells veryyyy similar to Diptyque L'eau Papier. A really beautiful unique scent, smells clean and musky but definitely has a dark academia fall quality. It smells like new books to me not old. Like you're walking into Barnes and Noble and you get whiffs of that clean fresh crisp new sheets of paper smell. Maybe I'm just associating with that bc it's called Book Loft lol. The lasting power is what you'd expect from a mist but the Diptyque one is very light and also horrendous lasting power and so not worth the price so you might as well get this with the bodycare to layer!