15 Things You’ll Understand If You Love the Smell of Print Books. Forget the smell of warm apple pie or freshly cleaned laundry — for book lovers, nothing beats the smell of books. From that first inhale when you walk into a bookstore to the familiar scent of an age-old favorite, these are the things you’ll understand if you love the smell of print books.
1. Inhaling the smell of a good book is an emotional experience.
2. Just one whiff puts you in your happy place.
3. It’s one of the first steps of getting to know a new book.
4. And it’s a step that can’t be skipped.
5. Because it’s sort of like an initial introduction.
6. Without it, the reading experience just isn’t the same.
7. Which means you can totally brag about it.
8. It’s one of the reasons the library is your favorite place on Earth.
9. It’s so intoxicating, you’ve always dreamed of bottling it up to wear as perfume.
10. Oh wait, someone already did that.
11. Because who needs Chanel No. 5 when you can have books?
12. It’s even better than fresh cut flowers.
13. Because nothing in the world is quite like it.
14. Old or new, you love the smell of them all.
15. And you don’t care who thinks you’re weird for doing it.
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