01SENSORY ASSOCIATIONSCULTURAL
- Color
- Cold steel
- Texture
- Smooth metal
- Temperature
- Cold
- Sound
- Metal touched
SmellBook editorialCULTURALRevision 1
Cold Metal Rail
A cool metallic touch-and-smell experience associated with railings, transit and cold outdoor metal.
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ATLAS POSITION138 / 200
MILESTONEAtlas 150
PRIMARY CATEGORYObjects & Materials
PUBLIC TYPEState
PROFILE STATUScomplete
CULTURAL3associations / context
EXPERIMENTAL2nearby / prototype structure
VERIFIED0published source-backed claims
Source registry ↗02FEELS LIKECULTURAL
wintercityprecision
Associations can vary strongly by person, place and culture.
03CONTEXTCULTURAL
stair railstationcold outdoor metal
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.
Cold Metal Rail is a perceptual state profile and does not claim that metal has one intrinsic odor.
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 ↗