SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0132
Fresh Corn
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Character EDITORIAL
Fresh corn smells sweet, green and grainy, with a milky softness from the kernels and a grassy edge from the husk.
Words: sweet, green, grain, fresh. Families: Fresh and clean, Sweet, fruity and floral, Cooked and fermented.
States: fresh (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: Market, Kitchen.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- Dimethyl sulfide in cooked sweet corn (CLM-SWEETCORN-001). L. F. Flora & R. C. Wiley, Sweet corn aroma, chemical components and relative importance in the overall flavor response, Journal of Food Science, 1974.
Molecules named in these claims: dimethyl sulfide, ethanethiol, hydrogen sulfide, methanethiol. 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). Fresh Corn (revision 4, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:fresh-corn. https://smellbook.com/smells/fresh-corn
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