Cardboard
A dry papery, woody and slightly dusty packaging smell associated with boxes and corrugated board.
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- Type
- Material
- Color
- Kraft brown
- Texture
- Corrugated board
- Temperature
- Dry
COMPARE TWO SMELLS
Cardboard vs Old Book
Both are papery, dry, woody and dusty. Cardboard is flatter and more brown-paper, the smell of boxes and packing; old book is sweeter and softer, with a faint vanilla-like warmth of aged pages.
Old Book
Dry paper, wood-like warmth and the dusty sweetness associated with aged books.
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- Type
- Experience
- Color
- Aged paper
- Texture
- Soft dry page
- Temperature
- Warm
In the evidence
- Named for both
- No molecule is named in the evidence for both.
- Only Cardboard
- (E)-2-nonenal, guaiacol, vanillin, γ-nonalactone, δ-decalactone
- Only Old Book
- acetic acid, furfural
Molecules named by VERIFIED claims about each entry, in the roles the claims give them. Sharing a molecule does not make two smells alike, and an entry with none named may simply have less evidence so far.
Editorial comparison based on the current public profiles, not a live similarity score.