SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0098
Fresh Wood
Permanent ID: smellbook: · updated 2026-10-06, revision 3
Character EDITORIAL
Fresh wood smells woody, dry and lightly resinous, with a clean, slightly sweet freshness from newly cut grain.
Words: woody, fresh, dry, resinous. Families: Temperature and texture, Fresh and clean, Wood, earth and stone.
States: fresh (EDITORIAL), cut (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: Woodshop.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- Odorants of Scots pine wood (CLM-PINEWOOD-001). Valentin Schierer, Cornelia Rieder-Gradinger & Erwin Rosenberg, Method Comparison for the Identification and Characterization of Odorants from Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and Oriented Strand Boards (OSB) Made Thereof by GC-MS and GC-FID/O Using Different Headspace Techniques, Chemosensors, 2023.
Cite
SmellBook. (2026). Fresh Wood (revision 3, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:fresh-wood. https://smellbook.com/smells/fresh-wood
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