SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0066
Chamomile
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Character EDITORIAL
Chamomile smells soft, herbal and lightly floral, with a dry, hay-like warmth and a gentle apple-like sweetness.
Words: herbal, soft, floral, dry. Families: Temperature and texture, Fresh and clean, Sweet, fruity and floral.
States: dry (EDITORIAL). A state says how an entry is met, such as wet, aged or roasted. It does not create a new smell, and it adds no scientific fact by itself: states marked EDITORIAL come from the entry's own records, and only those marked VERIFIED are reported by a VERIFIED claim.
Met in: Garden.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- What chamomile oil is made of (CLM-CHAMOMILE-001). Anne Orav, Ain Raal & Elmar Arak, Content and composition of the essential oil of Chamomilla recutita (L.) Rauschert from some European countries, Natural Product Research, 2010.
Molecules named in these claims: bisabolol oxide A, chamazulene. A molecule listed here is named in a VERIFIED claim about this smell. It is not presented as the cause of the smell; each claim says what its source supports.
Cite
SmellBook. (2026). Chamomile (revision 3, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:chamomile. https://smellbook.com/smells/chamomile
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