EVERYDAY SETTING · SERVICES AND STAYS
Swimming pool
Spanish (pilot): Piscina · pending native-speaker review
3 SmellBook entries are linked to swimming pool as smells found there.
Kind of place: Services and stays
What does a swimming pool smell like? EDITORIAL
- Chlorine / Pool: Pool water smells sharp, clean and faintly bleach-like, with a stinging edge that can feel bright or harsh depending on its strength. VERIFIED evidence on the entry.
- Sunscreen: Sunscreen smells warm, creamy and slightly sweet, with a soft cosmetic and sometimes coconut or floral note. VERIFIED evidence on the entry.
- Beach Towel: A beach towel smells warm, salty and soft, with sun-warmed fabric forming a dry, clean base.
SMELL WORDS USED
warm (2)
EVIDENCE
2 of 3 cite a VERIFIED source: Chlorine / Pool, Sunscreen
Smell words are the entries' own descriptors, counted. Evidence lists the entries that cite a VERIFIED source; the place or material link itself is editorial.
A guide to swimming pool smells EDITORIAL
An everyday setting is a kind of place, such as a kitchen or a market, not one location: it has no address or coordinates. Its smells are linked by SmellBook editors, mostly from the entries' own records; the list below says how each link was made. These links are editorial; only the claims on each entry are VERIFIED.
3 entries are linked here. 2 of them have VERIFIED scientific claims of their own: Chlorine / Pool and Sunscreen.
When you meet them
- Summer: Sunscreen
Smellscape journeys through this setting
How these 3 links were made
- Chlorine / Pool: The entry lists this setting among the places it is met. Words in the entry: “swimming pool”. Recorded on .
- Sunscreen: The entry lists this setting among the places it is met. Words in the entry: “pool”. Recorded on .
- Beach Towel: The entry lists this setting among the places it is met. Words in the entry: “pool”. Recorded on .
Swimming pool was added as an everyday setting on , from the settings the entries themselves record: hotel pool, pool, swimming pool. Independently reviewed by a second editor before release.
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Places and materials are linked to smells by SmellBook editors. The links are editorial evidence: they say where a smell entry belongs, not that a place or material always smells this way.
Permanent identifier smellbook:place:swimming-pool · Graph record (JSON)
Cite as SmellBook. (2026). Swimming pool (place). SmellBook knowledge graph, unreleased changes since the dataset release of 2026-10-07. smellbook:place:swimming-pool. https://smellbook.com/places/swimming-pool
Dataset history Not yet in a dataset release; it will appear in the next one.