01SENSORY ASSOCIATIONSCULTURAL
- Color
- Kraft brown
- Texture
- Corrugated board
- Temperature
- Dry
- Sound
- Box opened
SmellBook editorialCULTURALRevision 1
Cardboard
A dry papery, woody and slightly dusty packaging smell associated with boxes and corrugated board.
ATLAS POSITION078 / 200
MILESTONEIconic 100
PRIMARY CATEGORYObjects & Materials
PUBLIC TYPEProduct / Material
PROFILE STATUScomplete
CULTURAL3associations / context
EXPERIMENTAL2nearby / prototype structure
VERIFIED0published source-backed claims
Source registry ↗02FEELS LIKECULTURAL
storagenewnessmoving
Associations can vary strongly by person, place and culture.
03CONTEXTCULTURAL
parcelmoving boxstorage room
04NEARBYEXPERIMENTAL
Early editorial relationships, not a live graph ranking.
05SCIENCE & SOURCESEXPERIMENTAL
No VERIFIED scientific claim is attached to this early profile yet.
SmellBook will add citations claim-by-claim when reliable sources are available. Cultural associations and prototype relationships remain labeled separately.
WHERE THIS SMELL APPEARS
One profile can belong to many routes.
These links are editorial navigation across the public atlas—not live graph scores.
Cardboard is a material profile whose smell changes with ink, adhesives, moisture and storage.
EDITORIAL REVISIONRevision 1
Initial public canonical profile.
Created 2026-09-22 · Updated 2026-09-22EVIDENCE MATTERS
A profile can contain different kinds of knowledge.
SmellBook separates cultural association, community perception, verified evidence, prediction and experimental relationships rather than presenting them as the same thing. Read the evidence guide ↗ See evidence coverage ↗