"Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units tahat are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which his how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge in all of us."
~Perfumes: The Guide
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