Library
A quiet indoor environment combining paper, shelving, fabric, dust and building materials.
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- Type
- Place / Environment
- Color
- Muted paper beige
- Texture
- Pages and wood
- Temperature
- Mild
COMPARE TWO SMELLS
Library vs Old Book
Both are papery, dry and woody. Old book is the smell of a single aged volume, close and slightly sweet; a library is a room of them, adding polish, dust and still air.
Old Book
Dry paper, wood-like warmth and the dusty sweetness associated with aged books.
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- Type
- Experience
- Color
- Aged paper
- Texture
- Soft dry page
- Temperature
- Warm
In the evidence
- Named for both
- acetic acid, furfural
- Only Library
- None named.
- Only Old Book
- None named.
Molecules named by VERIFIED claims about each entry, in the roles the claims give them. Sharing a molecule does not make two smells alike, and an entry with none named may simply have less evidence so far.
Editorial comparison based on the current public profiles, not a live similarity score.