{"id":12791,"date":"2012-07-18T17:37:41","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T21:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=12791"},"modified":"2012-07-18T17:37:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T21:37:41","slug":"that-new-book-smell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2012\/07\/that-new-book-smell\/","title":{"rendered":"That new book smell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally a barrier of entry is broken for some people concerning ebooks.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.\u201d Karl Lagerfeld This tells the story of a passion and a twisting plot to put the particular bouquet of freshly printed books in a bottle. Gerhard Steidl was first alerted to the importance of the smell of a book by Karl Lagerfeld, prompting a passion for paper and the composition of a scent on the pages of a book. To Wallpaper* magazine the pairing of the publisher with the perfumer seemed a natural partnership and so the idea for Paper Passion was born. Wallpaper* magazine commissioned master perfumer Geza Schoen to create a fragrance based on the smell of books to be part of the Wallpaper* magazine Handmade exhibition in Milan.<\/p>\n<p>This is an opportunity to celebrate all the gloriosensuality of books, at a time when many in the industry are turning against them. The idea is that is should relax you, like when you read a book, to a level of meditation and concentration. Paper Passion has evolved into something quite beautiful and unique. To wear the smell of a book is something very chic. Books are players in the intellectual world, but also in the world of luxury.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just spray it on your Kindle, iPad, phone, etc.  <\/p>\n<p>So when are they going to have the car air fresheners version so you can drive around smelling a library? <\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/godandthemachine\/2012\/07\/now-you-can-smell-like-a-book\/\" target=\"_blank\">God and the Machine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally a barrier of entry is broken for some people concerning ebooks. \u201cThe smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.\u201d Karl Lagerfeld This tells&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12792,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12791\/revisions\/12792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}