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A newly cut or worked wood smell with dry grain, resinous freshness and workshop associations.
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Fresh wood smells woody, dry and lightly resinous, with a clean, slightly sweet freshness from newly cut grain. EDITORIAL
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QUESTIONS ABOUT FRESH WOOD
Fresh wood smells woody, dry and lightly resinous, with a clean, slightly sweet freshness from newly cut grain. Some woods, such as pine, smell sharper and more resinous; others are milder and drier. Sawdust adds a fine, dusty texture in the nose. It is easily confused with pencil shavings or with a timber yard.
It is met in a woodshop, when sawing or sanding a fresh cut board, during carpentry and DIY projects, and at timber yards and building sites where new boards are stacked.
Typical settings: woodshop, fresh cut board, carpentry.
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Material: Wood.
One VERIFIED scientific claim from one published source is recorded for this entry: Odorants of Scots pine wood. This claim says only what its source supports, in the scope shown with it.
Fresh Wood is a general material-state profile; species can create very different smell identities.
Words that are easy to mix up: Is fresh the same as clean?, When does woody become smoky?, Is citrus a kind of fresh? and When is woody also resinous?
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Scientific evidence · 1 claim
Gas chromatography–olfactometry of Scots pine wood strands and boards made from them found over 30 odour-active substances, mainly monoterpenes and monoterpenoids, with aliphatic aldehydes, alcohols, acids and phenolic compounds.
One softwood species and its strand board; other woods have different odorants.
How this was found: Odour analysis with human assessors. People smelled the separated compounds or the material itself (for example gas chromatography–olfactometry, dilution analysis, recombination or a sensory panel). Source: primary study; sensory or perception work.
Valentin Schierer, Cornelia Rieder-Gradinger & Erwin Rosenberg
DOI 10.3390/chemosensors11100543Links chosen by SmellBook editors, not a ranking.
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SmellBook SB-0098 — Fresh Woodsmellbook:smell:fresh-woodhttps://smellbook.com/smells/fresh-woodSmellBook. (2026). Fresh Wood (revision 3, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:fresh-wood. https://smellbook.com/smells/fresh-wood@misc{smellbook_fresh_wood_r3,
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Fresh Wood is a general material-state profile; species can create very different smell identities.
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Editorial description expanded to answer what it smells like and where you meet it; independently reviewed.
Created 2026-09-22 · Updated 2026-10-06Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the first of three dataset releases of 2026-09-30.
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