SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0017
Lavender
Permanent ID: smellbook: · updated 2026-10-14, revision 4
Character EDITORIAL
Lavender smells fresh, herbal and floral at once, with a clean, dry and slightly sharp aromatic edge.
Words: aromatic, floral, herbal, dry. Families: Temperature and texture, Fresh and clean, Sweet, fruity and floral.
States: dry (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: Garden.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- Linalool and linalyl acetate in lavender oil (CLM-LAVENDER-001). Christos N. Hassiotis & Konstantinos E. Vlachonasios, How Biological and Environmental Factors Affect the Quality of Lavender Essential Oils, Physiologia, 2025.
- Compounds that covaried with the aroma of lavender oils (CLM-LAVENDER-002). Zuobing Xiao et al., Odor-active compounds of different lavender essential oils and their correlation with sensory attributes, Industrial Crops and Products, 2017.
Molecules named in these claims: linalool, linalyl acetate, camphor, limonene. 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). Lavender (revision 4, 2026-10-14). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:lavender. https://smellbook.com/smells/lavender
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