SMELL WORD · SWEET, FRUITY AND FLORAL
Tangy
Bright sour or cultured smell character in food and fruit.
Spanish (pilot): Ácido · pending native-speaker review
fruity · tropical · sweet · tart
Open entry →Smell entry · Type: Food / ExperienceYogurtdairy · creamy · tangy · cool
Open entry →Smell entry · Type: Food / ProductVinegarsharp · sour · acidic · pungent
Open entry →Smell entry · Type: Source / FoodGrapefruit Peelcitrus · bitter · bright · sharp
Open entry →Smell entry · Type: Food / Prepared StateLemonadecitrus · fresh · sweet · tangy
Open entry →Tangy in SmellBook Learn
- Fermented and Tangy · Smell Vocabulary word pair
Close words
Easily confused with
- Is every tangy smell fermented? (SmellBook Learn)
Same family: sweet, fruity and floral
SmellBook uses “tangy” as descriptive language, not as a precise lab measurement. People can apply the same word differently depending on context and experience.
Often used with tangy
- Fresh: 4 of 5 entries
- Citrus: 2 of 5 entries
- Fermented: 2 of 5 entries
- Fruity: 2 of 5 entries
- Sweet: 2 of 5 entries
- Bitter: 1 of 5 entries
Counts of Atlas entries described by both words. They show how SmellBook's entries use the vocabulary, not how people perceive smells, and they change as entries are added. All counts (JSON)
Permanent identifier smellbook:descriptor:tangy · This record and its links as data (JSON)
Cite as SmellBook. (2026). Tangy (descriptor). SmellBook knowledge graph, dataset release of 2026-11-11. smellbook:descriptor:tangy. https://smellbook.com/descriptors/tangy
Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the first of three dataset releases of 2026-09-30; changed in the first of two dataset releases of 2026-10-01 (localized names).