COMPARE TWO SMELLS
Pencil Shavings can carry cedar-like dry wood character, but the object context adds graphite, sharpening and classroom familiarity.
A dry woody smell associated with freshly sharpened pencils, cedar-like wood and graphite-adjacent school materials.
Sensory associations CULTURAL
Associations can vary strongly by person, place and culture.
Open profile ↗A dry, warm woody direction with pencil-shaving and forest associations.
Sensory associations CULTURAL
Associations can vary strongly by person, place and culture.
Open profile ↗This molecule is named for both by the same claim, Odorants of incense cedar pencil wood. The claim's own limits: One wood sample of Calocedrus decurrens; other woods called cedar differ, and pencil shavings were not studied directly.
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.
| Field | Pencil Shavings | Cedar | Shared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Record | SB-0076 · smellbook:smell:pencil-shavings | SB-0003 · smellbook:smell:cedar | Not compared |
| Character EDITORIAL | Pencil shavings smell dry, woody and clean, with a sweet, cedar-like note and a faint, slightly metallic hint. | Cedar smells dry, warm and woody, with a clean, pencil-like character and a light resinous edge. | Not compared |
| Smell words EDITORIAL | woody, dry, clean | woody, dry, warm, resinous | woody, dry |
| Families EDITORIAL | Temperature and texture, Fresh and clean, Wood, earth and stone | Temperature and texture, Wood, earth and stone | Temperature and texture, Wood, earth and stone |
| Met in EDITORIAL | School | Forest | None shared |
| States | fresh (editorial) | None recorded | None shared |
| VERIFIED evidence VERIFIED | 1 claim from 1 source | 1 claim from 1 source | Not compared |
| Molecules named in claims VERIFIED | thymoquinone | thymoquinone | thymoquinone |
| History | None linked yet | None linked yet | Not compared |
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.
Editorial comparison based on the current public profiles, not a live similarity score.