In The Library (2005)
by CB I Hate Perfume

I love the smell of libraries; not the smell of modern, suburban libraries where the oldest book to be found is twenty years old, but rather libraries with history and character filled with antiquarian books from the 19th century and before. Such libraries provide a unique, and for me quite satisfying, olfactory experience. There is a unique mustiness coupled with the smell of aging leathers that I just love. So I decided to try CB I Hate Perfumes offering, In The Library, in high hopes it would me a reasonable facsimile of the library smells I love. Alas, it was not. I get the shoe polish note, and a very sweet smell, perhaps slightly leathery, but to me it falls way short of anything I had hoped for. Libraries do not smell very sweet! I am not fond of this one at all.

Sweet parchment paper. Being in a library is more than just the smell, it's the feeling of overwhelming information and finding a private corner to read in. The scent here doesn't envelope you as the atmosphere in a library would. This should be a much larger scent then it currently is.

Yes, you are in the library. With moldy books. Don't get me wrong--I actually wanted to be a librarian, but... I don't think I like this type of book smell. Not on me, following me. It's just a one-dimensional dusty library smell, if that's what you wanna smell like.

I really enjoy how "In the Library" smells... I do get wafts of paper, leather, wood and furniture polish. I just don't think *I* want to smell like that. I'd definitely use this as a room spray when in a certain mood - though perhaps I'd need a fireplace, a pipe, or a tweed jacket.

“worn leather, worn cloth, wood polish”
This was weird. I don’t get any of those ingredients. I do get an odd, fruity/dessert chord. It is hard to identify. Peachy-pear, melon, pudding, bread pudding, custard… with a sharp note. I don’t care for this at all! Where are the old books, the wooden benches?

If you walk into a library...or an old bookstore. When you walk deep into the part where the old books are held in the old part of the building. Providing this is a properl maintained library. You will experience the initial fragrance of CB's frag "in the library".

You really have to stop analyzing the scent to really enjoy it and get whats it trying to say. Its the smell of an old place, there is a musty smell and lil leather and a really lite lemon prescence.

It lasts for a while on my skin, several hours, possibly five. The lemon and the sweeter notes take over after the first hour but it's still a very nice frag and the middle notes and basenotes are still reminiscent of the topnotes.

Where and when will I wear this...? I am not really sure.