Writers are hot. (That’s why you should date one.) But are we really people that typically smell good? I mean, I don’t think that most writers smell bad. But do you think of writers as having a particular smell. Coffee maybe, which is appealing to some people and not to others.
I can picture writers of yore having a charming alluring smell. A combination of clove cigarettes and some fancy old perfume that harkens back to the days of the novels set during the time periods they were writing in. But in modern times, we work on computers and probably just smell like whatever our homes smell like.
If you were to think romantically of a writer’s scent, what would you think of? Would the smell of libraries come to mind? That scent of old books that brings writers to their knees with a strange combination of bookstore-browsing nostalgia and inspiration?
If so, then perhaps you’d be interested in In The Library, a perfume that is designed to smell just like an old book (in a good way). (It’s described on the site as the smell of an “English Novel taken from a Signed First Edition of one of my very favorite novels, Russian & Moroccan leather bindings, worn cloth and a hint of wood polish.” I found out about this from a Facebook mention about it from sex blogger Shanna Katz. A quick look online shows that there are definitely some people out there who think it’s hot.
What do you think? Should writers wear book-scented perfume to be taken more seriously as hot literary creatures?
March 3rd, 2009 at 8:46 pm
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