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June 18, 2013 11:59 am PDT

The chemical composition of "old booksmell"

It starts with lignin — a compound that makes up the cell walls of plants. Turns out, it's also closely related (chemical-structure-wise) to vanillin, the stuff that makes vanilla smell so vanilla-y.



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