Waaaay in the past I posted the lovely word petrichor.
While talking with my granddaughter recently, we discussed how we both loved soil, and then our conversation meandered to the smell after the rain. I told her it was called petrichor.
So my rabbit-trail brain went on to talk about the word biblichor—that lovely smell of old books. This word cannot be found in dictionaries (or at least not that I could find – prove me wrong and find it in one!).
Related is the word vellichor, which was coined by John Koenig in his book The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.
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