SMELL AND CULTURE · LESSON 4 OF 5
What do workplaces smell of, and why?
Work leaves smells: flour and heat in a bakery, sawdust in a woodshop, products in a hair salon. They come from the materials and processes of the work itself.
Linking a workplace smellscape to the materials behind it is part of how SmellBook connects places and materials in its knowledge graph.
- Think of a job you know well. List the materials it uses and the smells you would expect there.
baked · warm · toasted · sweet
Open profile ↗SB-0163 · Place / EnvironmentWoodshopwoody · dry · fresh · workshop
Open profile ↗SB-0112 · Place / EnvironmentHair Saloncosmetic · clean · warm · product
Open profile ↗SB-0167 · Place / EnvironmentPharmacyclean · retail · clinical · paper
Open profile ↗SB-0096 · Place / EnvironmentFlorist Shopfloral · green · fresh · cool
Open profile ↗SB-0168 · Place / Food EnvironmentRestaurant Kitchenfood · warm · savory · busy
Open profile ↗Materials
Recording smell heritage
Smell and Culture is free, like all of SmellBook Learn. It describes how SmellBook records places, times and cultural associations. It does not describe what any culture, religion or group believes, and associations are not shared by everyone.