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ABOUT SMELLBOOK

Smell is everywhere. Its digital world is still fragmented.

SmellBook is an independent project building a free, open encyclopedia of human smell — across nature, food, places, memories, fragrance and the spaces around us.

01

Start with the whole world

We are not beginning with perfume and expanding outward. We are beginning with smell itself. Rain, coffee, sea air, paper, flowers, cities and fragrance can all belong in the same universe.

02

Make relationships visible

The long-term idea is to help people move through smell as a space: what feels close, what feels different, what carries a memory, what belongs to a place, and how those relationships change from person to person.

03

Build the experience in stages

SmellBook.com began as a public editorial atlas. The interactive map, a browser-local Personal SmellBook and Fragrance & Spaces tools are now live; accounts and recommendation systems are not.

THE SIMPLE VERSION

Map human smell.

See it. Compare it. Understand how the world experiences it — and how you experience it differently.