WHERE SMELLS COME FROM · FOOD & DRINK
Onion
2 smells in the Atlas come from onion. This page is about the food or drink; each smell has its own entry.
Connections
Smells that come from it (2) EDITORIAL
- Fried Onions · when fried · savory, warm, sweet
- Onion · pungent, sharp, savoury
How these smells are met (7) VERIFIEDEDITORIAL
- Fried Onions · cooked (VERIFIED)
- Fried Onions · fried (EDITORIAL)
- Onion · fresh (EDITORIAL)
- Onion · cut (VERIFIED)
- Onion · cooked (VERIFIED)
- Onion · fried (EDITORIAL)
- Onion · raw (VERIFIED)
Where these smells are met (1) EDITORIAL
- Kitchen · Onion (met in), Fried Onions (met in)
Links SmellBook records for this page, grouped the same way on every origin, place and material page. Place, material and origin links are editorial: they say where an entry belongs, not that every example smells this way.
VERIFIED claims recorded for the smell entries above. Each claim is about the smell it names, in the scope its source supports; none is about every onion.
- A potent odorant of raw and cooked onion (Onion)
- Volatiles of onions heated in butter (Fried Onions)
SmellBook editors link each smell to the real-world thing it comes from. The link is editorial: it says what the entry is about, not that every plant, food or animal of that kind smells the same, and it is not a scientific finding. Kinds are a browsing aid, not a biological classification.
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Graph record
This origin and its links, each with where it comes from, as data.
Permanent identifier smellbook:origin:onion · Graph record (JSON)
Cite as SmellBook. (2026). Onion (origin). SmellBook knowledge graph, dataset release of 2026-10-25. smellbook:origin:onion. https://smellbook.com/origins/onion
Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the second of two dataset releases of 2026-10-18.