SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0083
Fresh Towels
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Character EDITORIAL
Fresh towels smell clean, soft and warm, a gentle laundry freshness with a fluffy, dry texture in the nose.
Words: clean, soft, warm, fresh. Families: Temperature and texture, Fresh and clean.
States: dry (VERIFIED), fresh (EDITORIAL), outdoors (VERIFIED). 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: Bathroom, Hotel.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- Volatiles from line-dried laundry (CLM-LAUNDRY-001). Silvia Pugliese, Malte Frydenlund Jespersen, Jakob Boyd Pernov, Justin Shenolikar, Jesper Nygaard, Ole John Nielsen & Matthew S. Johnson, Chemical analysis and origin of the smell of line-dried laundry, Environmental Chemistry, 2020.
Molecules named in these claims: heptanal, hexanal, nonanal, octanal, pentanal. 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 Towels (revision 3, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:fresh-towels. https://smellbook.com/smells/fresh-towels
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