SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0061
Moss
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Character EDITORIAL
Cool, damp and green, moss smells like shaded earth with a soft, slightly bitter freshness.
Words: green, damp, earthy, cool. Families: Temperature and texture, Fresh and clean, Wood, earth and stone.
States: wet (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: Forest, Garden.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- Volatile constituents of mosses (CLM-MOSS-001). Yücel Saritas et al., Volatile constituents in mosses (Musci), Phytochemistry, 2001.
Cite
SmellBook. (2026). Moss (revision 3, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:moss. https://smellbook.com/smells/moss
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