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The Vanilla from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
… the strange and special wistfulness and melancholy of antiquarian bookstores, permeated by the passage of time - countless old books, for whose reading one will never have time, each a time capsule from its own era, dated, titled, and bound in paper like an old room that someone left years ago, a hidden addition, strewn with thoughts that still lie around just as they did on the day they were captured...
Thus, on the wonderful website “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows,” the meaning of “Vellichor” is explained. It is a made-up word that John Koenig added to this dictionary in 2013, which was then picked up and spread.
I love beautiful books, old and new, and I always smell them, burying my nose deep between the pages. There is the scent of brand-new books, sometimes more like paper, sometimes like ink or glue. And there is the scent of old books, sometimes damp and musty, but often dry and dusty, and when it mixes with the fragrance of old leather bindings, something like a dusty-sweet vanilla note can indeed emerge.
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And so my scent impression is here as well. On the Providence homepage, it states that the sweet, musty, spicy vanilla scent that can emanate from the leather-bound pages of old books comes from the lignin in wood-containing paper. As the pages of the book age, the paper emits a sweet-vanilla aroma that can evoke a wistful nostalgia. Vellichor.
Initially, and in my first tests, I primarily detected delicious pudding vanilla, along with a slightly smoky wood dust like in a sawmill, when the scent of the sawdust from the wood heated by sawing fills the air and everything is covered in this fragrant shavings. Woody and smoky. That’s why I wrote in the statement from the vanilla pudding festival in the sawmill - and this combination of woody, smoky, dusty, and vanilla pudding still captures the scent for me quite accurately, but it goes even deeper. I actually have associations of dusty stacks of paper along with distinct nutmeg spice. The vanilla here comes from Madagascar and Tahitian vanilla beans, which were macerated for six months before additional vanilla absolute is added.
The oud used is not animalistic but primarily woody and musty, so the scent should also appeal to oud skeptics, provided they like vanilla.
Overall, it is thus vanilla-deliciously quirky-good, and then there’s something that won’t let me go: cheerful melancholy or profoundly wistful, melancholic joy, mourning the fact that all books will eventually decay, and not just those, that everything will turn to dust and ashes, leaving my heart sore.
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Here on Parfumo, five other fragrances are listed that bear the name Vellichor, none of which I know so far:
“10 Vellichor” by Warrior Apothecary, Canada, which no one has tested yet;
“Vellichor” by Deep Field, USA - no tests have been entered here either, it sounds very interesting;
“Vellichor Geist” by DeMer, USA (2022) - also so far without tests;
as well as “Vellichor” (2020) and “Velichor Supreme” by Parfums Vintage - they are said to resemble Marlys “Layton,” but I don’t know them either.
So that would still be a vast field for research.
Thanks to Gandix for the sample and to Knopfnase for the bottle deal! The scent will now accompany me through the autumn with a melancholic-cheerful-vanilla vibe.
The mentioned dictionary with many more melancholic-sad-beautiful entries can be found here:
www.thedictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/
Thus, on the wonderful website “The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows,” the meaning of “Vellichor” is explained. It is a made-up word that John Koenig added to this dictionary in 2013, which was then picked up and spread.
I love beautiful books, old and new, and I always smell them, burying my nose deep between the pages. There is the scent of brand-new books, sometimes more like paper, sometimes like ink or glue. And there is the scent of old books, sometimes damp and musty, but often dry and dusty, and when it mixes with the fragrance of old leather bindings, something like a dusty-sweet vanilla note can indeed emerge.
-----
And so my scent impression is here as well. On the Providence homepage, it states that the sweet, musty, spicy vanilla scent that can emanate from the leather-bound pages of old books comes from the lignin in wood-containing paper. As the pages of the book age, the paper emits a sweet-vanilla aroma that can evoke a wistful nostalgia. Vellichor.
Initially, and in my first tests, I primarily detected delicious pudding vanilla, along with a slightly smoky wood dust like in a sawmill, when the scent of the sawdust from the wood heated by sawing fills the air and everything is covered in this fragrant shavings. Woody and smoky. That’s why I wrote in the statement from the vanilla pudding festival in the sawmill - and this combination of woody, smoky, dusty, and vanilla pudding still captures the scent for me quite accurately, but it goes even deeper. I actually have associations of dusty stacks of paper along with distinct nutmeg spice. The vanilla here comes from Madagascar and Tahitian vanilla beans, which were macerated for six months before additional vanilla absolute is added.
The oud used is not animalistic but primarily woody and musty, so the scent should also appeal to oud skeptics, provided they like vanilla.
Overall, it is thus vanilla-deliciously quirky-good, and then there’s something that won’t let me go: cheerful melancholy or profoundly wistful, melancholic joy, mourning the fact that all books will eventually decay, and not just those, that everything will turn to dust and ashes, leaving my heart sore.
-----
Here on Parfumo, five other fragrances are listed that bear the name Vellichor, none of which I know so far:
“10 Vellichor” by Warrior Apothecary, Canada, which no one has tested yet;
“Vellichor” by Deep Field, USA - no tests have been entered here either, it sounds very interesting;
“Vellichor Geist” by DeMer, USA (2022) - also so far without tests;
as well as “Vellichor” (2020) and “Velichor Supreme” by Parfums Vintage - they are said to resemble Marlys “Layton,” but I don’t know them either.
So that would still be a vast field for research.
Thanks to Gandix for the sample and to Knopfnase for the bottle deal! The scent will now accompany me through the autumn with a melancholic-cheerful-vanilla vibe.
The mentioned dictionary with many more melancholic-sad-beautiful entries can be found here:
www.thedictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/
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