SmellBook

SMELLBOOK GLOSSARY

A shared language for a world that is hard to describe.

These definitions explain the public product vocabulary without exposing proprietary scoring or graph-construction methods.

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Smell Universe

The broad world of things, places, phenomena, products and experiences that can have a smell identity.

02

Smell Map

The future visual interface for exploring relationships across the Smell Universe.

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Smell Page

A persistent public identity page for a canonical smell or smell experience.

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Global / Me

Two views of perception: aggregate shared patterns and an individual person’s own associations and preferences.

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Smell Journey

A route through related smell ideas, designed to make transitions and associations visible.

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Source

A physical origin that can contribute a smell, such as a plant, food or material.

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State

A condition that changes smell identity, such as wet stone versus dry stone.

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Phenomenon

A smell experience linked to an event or condition rather than one single object.

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Place / Environment

A smell identity associated with an environment, location or type of space.

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Composition

A deliberately constructed scent, such as a fragrance or scented product.

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Descriptor

A word used to describe a perceived smell quality.

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Experience

A smell identity whose meaning depends strongly on context, memory or combined sensory perception.