Dogs&Coffee
What is your favorite deck by smell? Mine is Zombie tarot... hard to shuffle, hard to read, and I barely use it, but it smells like india ink and charcoal pencils which reminds me of my mom's old wooden art supply kit, so I love it.
What that rules out almost all the Lo Scarabeo decks for me. I practically have to let them offgas in an open window for a day before I use them.
What that rules out almost all the Lo Scarabeo decks for me. I practically have to let them offgas in an open window for a day before I use them.
What is your favorite deck by smell?
Well this post just prompted me to sit in front of my shelf and smell for awhile
Housewives, Wild Unknown (2nd edition), and Cosmos Tarot & Oracle are the ones with the most distinctive smell for me. I really like Cosmos', when I first got it I imagined it was the smell of the art studio it came from but it's probably actually from all the gold gilding on the deck.
Mine is, without a shadow of a doubt, the 7th World Tarot. Out of all my 170-something decks, it was the only one that smelled *natural*, instead of having a new-deck-smell or a chemical smell or a printer's ink smell. It came out smelling of citrus, possibly a mixture of lemon and fingerlime. Gorgeous. I snuffed it up every time I took the deck out.
It was a sad, sad day for me when the smell was so faded that I could no longer detect it.