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:
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.
