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7.9 / 10 751 Ratings
A popular perfume by Diana Vreeland for women and men, released in 2008. The scent is woody-sweet. It was last marketed by L'Oréal.
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Main accords

Woody
Sweet
Spicy
Powdery
Creamy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
PepperPepper Orange blossom absoluteOrange blossom absolute PatchouliPatchouli
Heart Notes Heart Notes
Tonka bean absoluteTonka bean absolute Siam benzoinSiam benzoin CypriolCypriol Nocturnal ConcreteNocturnal Concrete
Base Notes Base Notes
Vanilla absoluteVanilla absolute CedarwoodCedarwood VetiverVetiver
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Scent
7.9751 Ratings
Longevity
6.8642 Ratings
Sillage
6.3639 Ratings
Bottle
7.9620 Ratings
Value for money
7.1452 Ratings
Submitted by BeyondTheSea, last update on 10/12/2025.
Interesting Facts
The fragrance was part of the collection Replica.

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41 in-depth fragrance descriptions
RisingChaos

110 Reviews
RisingChaos
RisingChaos
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Vanilla Paper
This opens with a somewhat musty vanilla, which airs out to something slightly more musky and airy over the course of a few minutes. As if I opened an old book, covered with a gentle layer of dust and filled with crinkly stale paper, and watched it slowly transform into a new, glossy magazine. The best way I can describe this is it smells like a bucket of wet wood pulp splashed with vanilla extract, lacquer, and a dash of black pepper. Papery, woody, with an air of gentle sweetness. Moderately soft projection for 2-3hr, longevity 9-11hr.
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FlowerFiend3

4 Reviews
FlowerFiend3
FlowerFiend3
3  
My Favorite Fragrance of All Time!
This is my signature cold-season scent.

It opens with the must of a sun-filtered library, dustmotes floating in the slight breeze of an open window.

It settles into vellum, ink, and leather at the heart. The feeling of spending hours doing research in ancient, heavy tomes at a worn wooden desk.

And oh so subtly, it morphs into the base notes of a hearth, a slight smoky accord to compliment the squashy leather chair before the fireplace, in which you sip your tea and read your saga of a novel in a quiet evening.

I quite literally cried when they discontinued this one, and I'm hoarding the last bottles I can find.
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Alexlinhcao

121 Reviews
Alexlinhcao
Alexlinhcao
2  
Whispers in the Library
Truly a lackluster experience. I'm so happy to hear that there are devotees for this fragrance, but it couldn't be me. There are some scents which I wouldn't wear, but can still admire on it's own or for someone else. WITL is neither of these for me.

The wear of it is poor (under an hour) and the fragrance profile itself isn't particularly pretty. I get a lot of a liniment-ish/ Carmex note in the beginning which I'll guess is somewhere between the patchouli and benzoin. But after that, it quickly fades to a watered down vanilla, if even that.

I don't get a cozy, vanilla-wood. I don't get books or a library. I don't get dark academia. For all of these things, I find there are much better options. I'm so glad I didn't blind buy this one after hearing it was discontinued from the REPLICA line. While I hate the name Autumn Vibes, it far exceeds in what WITL is trying to do.
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Rosymel

122 Reviews
Rosymel
Rosymel
2  
Pretty vanilla but too fleeting and soft
I like the notes in this one—vanilla and tobacco mostly—but goodness me what a soft performer. Even within five minutes of spraying it, I had to get my nose right up to my skin to smell it.

I generally have a light hand when spraying any perfume, extra light if I’ve been warned it’ll be a beast. I am usually a one spray and done type of person, so I find it funny when people talk about spraying themselves four or five times, because generally that would leave me gasping for air and overwhelmed with fragrance. But this? I think I’d need at least four or five sprays to smell it at all after a few minutes! It’s odd when I compare it to the other Replica scents I’ve tried (I have the Discovery sample set); they tend to be very good performers. For example, I have applied Music Festival VERY lightly and still smelled traces of it for the next three days on my jacket.

As for the actual scent itself: I can see where the library connotation comes in, because I find old books (and the real wooden bookshelves they tend to sit on) do have a kind of sweet, woody aroma. My grandma had a lot of her father’s books from the 1800s and early 1900s in her attic, and this is kind of how her attic smelled. It brings back nice memories for me. But yeah, the longevity is so fleeting I would never buy a bottle of it. The sample I have will have to suffice.
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jepifish

6 Reviews
jepifish
jepifish
1  
Ice Cream
I've spent a lot of time in all sorts of libraries and bookstores, so I can quite confidently say that this absolutely does not remind me of any of them. It lacks any sort of prominent wooden note and it fails to capture the essence of pulling out a slightly dusty tome, cracking it open, and feeling the scent of aged paper -- slightly mildewed -- tickle your nostrils.

What it does remind me of is rum and raisin ice cream with a wafer and biscuit cone. It pretty much smells like that throughout the day for me. Longevity was good: stuck to my skin even after a shower, but most scents do.

Definitely smells tasty, but not interesting in any meaningful way.
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6
My autumn Holy Grail. Sometimes I layer this with all sorts of woody/smoky and works well too. It really does smell like old books.
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1 year ago
5
On my skin this perfume exemplifies the scent of the thin, off white
pages in a dimestore paperback with that sweet slightly peppery/vanillic aroma.
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4
For me, a sweet, waxy smell of a room of long-undisturbed books. Spicy too. The glue, the binding, the old old paper?
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4
You'll know by the name whether this one is for you or not! It captures it's concept in aroma FLAWLESSLY. Totally chill.
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3
Dry powdery vanilla on a nutty wood base with faint traces of pipe tobacco. If library, then one with old solid wood furniture.
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3
Creamy vanilla that’s relaxing and almost vintage feeling. Brings me back to the old days, of which I never even existed, but can imagine.
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1 month ago
2
I keep trying to like it but it's not beating the Carmex allegations.
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2
The does in fact smell like a library, but without the scent of dust.
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2
From the name I expected more dry and dusty woods. However its very strong on vanilla and a bit feminin. Not bad but no must have
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2
A bucket of wet wood pulp splashed with vanilla extract, lacquer and a dash of black pepper. Papery, woody, with an air of gentle sweetness.
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