A combination of grassy notes with a tang of acids and a hint of
vanilla over an underlying mustiness, this unmistakable smell is
as much
a part of the book as its contents.
Someone should combine wine tasting with "smelling of old books" , to
determine which wine goes best with a Don Quixote publication from
1922 ...
Among my wife's secret mutant powers: determining a book's (general)
genre by the smell of its pages.
-Dave
(She, by the way, maintains that bone glue breaking down forms a
major note in "old book" smell)
