Bibliosmia (n)
bib-lee-oz-mee-ah
The smell and aroma of a good book.
The effect the book has on the nostrils as you breathe in the scent of the pages. This word has not achieved OED status yet and as such I suppose is urban slang, but I am sure we Bibliophiles will soon change that.
Example sentences
“There is nothing more amazing than walking into a second hand book shop, the bibliosmia alone is enough to make one weep”
“If anyone ever bottled Eau de Bibliosmia I’d be first in the queue ha ha.”

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There is already a good term for the aroma of old books: vellichor
Biliosmia actually predates Vellichor, but we have a Word of the Day every day, so we can have both on different days – https://forreadingaddicts.co.uk/word-of-the-day/word-of-the-day-vellichor/562