Fuck Yeah, Book Arts!

“Karl Lagerfeld is a true book lover - his library holds more than 300,000 books. The designer also owns a book publishing company, Edition 7L, and runs his own bookstore, 7. Maybe that’s why he developed the new fragrance – Paper Passion.

The scent shall smell like ink on paper and has been developed in cooperation with Geza Schön, a perfumer from Berlin. The fragrance is packaed in a hardcover book which is desgined in collaboration with Gerhard Steidl, Lagerfeld’s Edition 7L partner. 

Hidden inside the pages of a book, Paper Passion is accompanied by texts from Karl Lagerfeld, Günter Grass, Geza Schoen and Tony Chambers.” (via)

vintageanchor:

The Sweet Smell of Dusty Books…

The most popular scent in perfumer Christopher Brosius’s ‘I Hate Perfume’ collection is ‘In the Library’, which smells like old, dusty books.

“My work is really about things that really do smell wonderful, but don’t have a lot of the properties that commercial perfumes do,” he said. NPR’s All Things Considered noted that Brosius “blends and bottles all of his scents by hand in his workshops. The process may be labour intensive, but it allows him to create singular scents that can’t be mass-produced.”

(via vintageanchorbooks)

prettybooks:

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As much as I love the smell of books, I don’t think I’d actually like to smell like one. I’d be curious to see whether it did really smell like a book though.

Zelda by Jody Alexander

“If she thought it would help, zelda would use her antediluvian curse cache to attain her revenge.”