In The Library

Definitely has the same "paper" note as Demeter's Paperback, which isn't surprising I suppose. But this is better. I don't think I'd be reminded of a library if it wasn't named as such, but now that I think about it it's quite fitting. Quiet and bookish and comfortable. It does smell a bit like dusty old books, but it's also quite sweet and very different. Coconut and vanilla with a bunch of dustiness. A bit reminiscent of glue. It actually loses sweetness as it warms on me, revealing a low sweet body of leather. I think I get the woods, but only on the very edge, just a sort of afterimage. Unisex, but leaning to the masculine side. Not for a manly man but a bookish boy. I like.

I thoroughly enjoy the evocative names that Christopher Brosius gives his perfumes, and the minimalist packaging. Given my love of reading and libraries, I figured this perfume would be perfect for me. The liquid in the bottle is a lovely milky white, somewhere between opaque and translucent. The perfume smells sharp at first spray before fading into woody, powdery, musky, and lightly sweet on me. Not much sillage; this one stays close to the skin. I describe myself as "smelling like an old man" when I wear this, though not in a bad way. It feels like an antique, slightly masculine, comforting fall scent.

This is what I used to wear to study and crank out seminar papers. It was sweet, leathery-supple, and warm-smelling on me. I imagined the kind of books so rare and fine you're not allowed to check them out of the building. But somehow you have sneaked in a thermos of vanilla chai and the librarians are letting you smoke pipe tobacco. I didn't get any of the earthy, dusty, or chemical-cleaner notes from dabbing out of my 2 ml of perfume absolute. This fragrance helped me get an -A on an overdue 20-page essay about NeoBaroque literature! Would recommend to help set a more scholarly mood.

My favorite perfume to date and a staple for the fall: this perfume smells like dusty old pages of library books and I love carrying that smell with me throughout the day. The 15 mL bottle goes on subtly and fades fast, within a few hours or so. It tends to dry as a vanilla, musky scent on my skin, although I've noticed more leather on the smell of my friends--most definitely depends on body type. My bottle was mixed for me in person at the Brooklyn store as well, and it smells different from the sample size--dustier, somehow. Still, definitely a favorite scent.

This is a real delight and is almost impossible describe. I think this one of those fragrances that will really vary according to your individual body chemistry. On me, the initial scent was hard to place, a hint of sweet leather and warm woody tones, but evaporated down to the most wonderful caramel musk that lasted all day. A little of the absolute goes a very long way.