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Show And Smell.

Posted by Christopher Waldrop

August 17, 2007 |

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose

By any other name would smell as sweet.”

–William Shakespeare, Romeo And Juliet, Act II, Scene 2

It may seem almost too painfully obvious to link Shakespeare’s overly quoted line to a fragrance produced by CB I Hate Perfume called In The Library, but, hey, can you think of a better line about the sense of smell? Poets have celebrated the senses of sight, sound, touch, and taste, but the poor sense of smell seems to get shoved to the back of the pack on a regular basis. That’s why there’s something slightly gratifying about a perfume that smells like, according to the description on the web site, an old book. Perfumer Christopher Brosius, who says as a child he wanted to be either an artist or scientist, and who begins his manifesto saying, “I hate perfume”, explains that the scent came from one of his favorite books when he found an extremely rare signed first edition in a bookshop in London.

Thanks to Just Write reader Reed Richards (not the super hero, but a super guy anyway) for pointing out this perfume. And if you don’t want to buy the perfume you might be able to pick up the scent anyway by visiting your local library. A little dab’ll do ya.


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