Paper Passion

Want to smell like paper? I know I certainly don’t want to smell like an old book. But Karl Lagerfeld, the Chanel designer, does. And according to this article in the Independent

Lagerfeld — who is known for his love of books and says he stocks more than 300,000 of them in his famous personal library — is already working on the fragrance… (The German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ)) reports that Paper Passion, which will be sold inside a hardcover book with the pages hollowed out to hold the flacon, will be developed with Berlin perfumer Geza Schön, who told the paper that “the fragrance will have a fatty note,” probably along the lines of linoleum, and that he was taking his inspiration from the smell of printed and unprinted paper.

Okay, since when did linoleum smell like paper?? But the article also mentions several other fragrances that are “inspired” by paper (who knew?) including Paperback with this description

A dusty old copy of a Barbara Pym novel did it for us. This Demeter scent is sweet and just a touch musty, a lot like Pym’s world come to think of it. Read her if you haven’t. Her writing is wonderful, if slightly musty, English satire from the 60s and 70s.

First seen here on Anderson Ink.