Citations:vellichor

Noun: "(neologism) the pensive nostalgia and temporality of used bookstores; the feeling evoked by the scent of old books or paper"

 * 2017, Ana Kimm, "The Bookstop", Ink Stains (Pechersk School International, Kiev, Ukraine), Summer 2017, page 86:
 * It seemed that nobody else was in the shop, so I wandered around, both intimidated and entranced by the sense of vellichor as I traced my fingers along the leather spines of books beyond my time.
 * 2018, Sam Millar, The Bespoke Hitman:
 * Bringing the drawing to his face, he closed his eyes, inhaling the paper's vellichor, the opium-like smell of yesteryear and childhood.
 * 2018, Areeba Nishat, "Vellichor", in Born from the Ashes: A Collection of Poems, unnumbered page:
 * The allures of vellichor
 * Makes my heart soar
 * No touch of man could
 * ever feel this good
 * No man could so much tempt
 * As old books do without attempt
 * 2019, Brooke Santoyo, Hanakatoba, page 36:
 * I stepped inside to see rows and rows of old books and tables to sit at. The vellichor of the place hit me in the face like a cold harsh wind.
 * 2020, Mary Brown, Seattle's Used Bookstores: 1999 and 2019, unnumbered page:
 * Vellichor also acknowledges the stab of sadness one feels in the presence of so many books, knowing that there is never enough time in one life to read them all.
 * 2020, Dian Cunningham Parrotta, Sounds from the Beach Vendor's Coins Mixed with the Seagulls' Huah Huah Huah, page 45:
 * They don't want to be personified or to be epitomized as worn out cliché that can never withstand the pillars of e tern i t y
 * and like freed felons, they walk again smelling the vellichor, swirling, curling in the ripe dewy petrichor of our abandoned years, a hidden annex of our childhood.
 * 2020, Roland Nwankwo, A Meditation on Love, unnumbered page:
 * There he browsed and experienced the vellichor; the strange wistfulness of used bookshops, suppressing the urge to pee.
 * 2021, BshubhamB, 22nd May: The Book, unnumbered page:
 * They walked in the vellichor of the store. They didn't speak for the next half hour as they went on a date with books and left each other to it.
 * 2021, Divya Pradyumnan, "Dusty Old Books", in Chimes of Poetic Solace: An Anthology, page 21:
 * There is something magical about old books,
 * maybe the vellichor that touches the soul.