COMPARE TWO SMELLS

Cedar vs Old Book

Both can read woody and dry. Cedar is a source reference; Old Book is a contextual object experience shaped by paper, age and memory.

Cedar

A dry, warm woody direction with pencil-shaving and forest associations.

woodydrywarmresinous

Type: Source

Sensory associations CULTURAL

Color: Cedar brown
Texture: Dry grain
Temperature: Warm

Associations can vary strongly by person, place and culture.

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Old Book

Dry paper, wood-like warmth and the dusty sweetness associated with aged books.

paperdrywoodydusty

Type: Experience

Sensory associations CULTURAL

Color: Aged paper
Texture: Soft dry page
Temperature: Warm

Associations can vary strongly by person, place and culture.

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In the evidence

Named for both: No molecule is named in the evidence for both.
Only Cedar: thymoquinone
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.

Side by side: Cedar and Old Book

What SmellBook records about Cedar and Old Book
Field	Cedar	Old Book	Shared
Record	SB-0003 · smellbook:smell:cedar	SB-0008 · smellbook:smell:old-book	Not compared
Character EDITORIAL	Cedar smells dry, warm and woody, with a clean, pencil-like character and a light resinous edge.	An old book smells dry, papery and faintly sweet, with a warm woody note and a soft, dusty edge.	Not compared
Smell words EDITORIAL	woody, dry, warm, resinous	paper, dry, woody, dusty	woody, dry
Families EDITORIAL	Temperature and texture, Wood, earth and stone	Temperature and texture, Wood, earth and stone, Animal, material and lived-in	Temperature and texture, Wood, earth and stone
Met in EDITORIAL	Forest	Library, Bookstore	None shared
States	None recorded	aged (VERIFIED)	None shared
VERIFIED evidence VERIFIED	1 claim from 1 source	3 claims from 2 sources	Not compared
Molecules named in claims VERIFIED	thymoquinone	acetic acid, furfural	None shared
History	None linked yet	None linked yet	Not compared

What SmellBook records as different

Words: warm, resinous only for Cedar; paper, dusty only for Old Book.
Families: none only for Cedar; Animal, material and lived-in only for Old Book.
Settings: Forest only for Cedar; Library, Bookstore only for Old Book.
Molecules named in claims: thymoquinone only for Cedar; acetic acid, furfural only for Old Book.

What is not known

How similar the two smell to any one person: SmellBook records no measurement of similarity between smells.
Whether the two were ever studied together: their claims come from separate studies unless a source is named for both.

This table compares what SmellBook records about each smell. Rows marked EDITORIAL come from editors' descriptions and links; rows marked VERIFIED come from VERIFIED claims, each resting on a registered source; a claim that could not be checked against the source text says so on its own page. It is not a similarity score: SmellBook shows no percentage or distance between smells.

STATUS

Editorial comparison based on the current public profiles, not a live similarity score.