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BY EVIDENCE AVAILABLE

What evidence each smell has so far.

Every entry has an editorial description. Some also have claims checked against published sources; this page groups the entries by the kind of evidence recorded so far.

With VERIFIED scientific claims (132)

At least one claim checked against a published scientific source.

With historical sources only (6)

Claims checked against historical texts, which describe their own time, and no scientific claim yet.

No VERIFIED claim yet (62)

The description is editorial. Absence of evidence here is not evidence that nothing is known.

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Every list is alphabetical or in record-number order. SmellBook does not rank smells, recommend them or order them by popularity.