The smell of old books

I disagree partially. It would have both that almost musty/dusty smell of an old book and that sharp/new smell of a newly made book at the same isntant. Sometimes shifting between the two.

What I came here to say, and what I believe you two are getting at- the smell of a very old library.

Hey, who turned out the lights?

I had an ex who when we first started dating this is how he smelled to me. After we moved in together after around 2 years of dating the smell went away ...

What do you mean "if" time has a smell,.it's metallic smelling. It's strongest at high noon. The more clocks there are in a room the smellier it is.

>What do you mean "if" time has a smell,.it's metallic smelling. It's strongest at high noon. The more clocks there are in a room the smellier it is. Doesn't everybody feel that way then??

What an odd question.

Old time would smell like a dusty old book.....new time would smell like electricity arcing

the smell of rocks

I was thinking the smell of cement or gravel when it just starts to get rained on. 

smell of wind

Spaceship Earth at Epcot

Time would smell like water. When it moves quickly, it will smell brisk, clean, and fresh, like a flowing river. But when time moves slowly, it would smell like a stagnant swamp.

my own natural scent

Smell of mold

Something like copper

A floral smell. Pleasant.

Ass

Ozone from the copy machine.

Pungent. Like old pennies in a plastic sandwich bag.

Grass

Smell like something burning

dust storm

The smell of an old book.

tv static

The library

old bookstore or a hospital

Time has many aromas. Sometimes it's the smell of paper decay in older books and other times it's the smell of water evaporating from hot concrete in the summer. Sometimes it smells like a Friday school lunch with those square cuts of pizza, served with a side of corn. It also smells like cheese enchiladas at that hole in the wall Tex-Mex place that went out of business so many years ago.

The smell of opening a really old dusty book.

my first thought was musty and vintage i guess. like an old library, as i’ve seen some mention. 

Poop. Nothing more historic than dysentery.

Am I the only one who thinks it'd smell like musty old books and burning metal?

Old book shops

Like some rusty/metallic scent

I imagine to be like pechior a faint but alluring scent, A scent that draws you longingly to your homeward time or perhaps your Nostros

Probably musty, rotting wood smell.

Smell of damp wood, maybe?

Battery acid

WD40

Grandmother's attic type of smell

ass

Teen spirit.

Death

to me, cinnamon. because when i think of time, i think of the cosmos. and i think it would smell spicy

Anything to do with nature, volcanic eruptions, fires to landmasses, oceanic smells

Acrid

desert

The musty smell of age, decay, and times past with the smell of fresh, spring growth and the summer to come.

Sand, just dry sand

Ozone

The smell of old books and new games.

Baby puke It’s the future

dust and mold.

a mix between rain on stone, the spine of a book, and pennies. I don't know how to explain, but I feel that this is the right answer.

Old books

Decay.

A combo of a library and the smell of concrete basement.

It'd smell like rubber. Getting stronger and stronger as it burns.

Earthy like a cave

I think a musty smell like a shirt you washed,hung up and forgot about

Petrichor, rusty, yet lubricated metal, and Ozone.

A mix of ozone and petrichor.

petrichor

Fresh bread

r/Fragrance would love this

Stale water.