SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0115
Old Church
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Character EDITORIAL
An old church smells cool, dry and woody, with polished pews, candle wax and stone forming a calm base.
Words: woody, waxy, dry. Families: Temperature and texture, Wood, earth and stone.
States: aged (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: Church.
Evidence
Historical evidence
- The smell of Paris churches in 1782 (CLM-OLDCHURCH-001). Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Tableau de Paris, tome I, 1782 edition, imprint not given in the catalogue, 1782.
Cite
SmellBook. (2026). Old Church (revision 4, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:old-church. https://smellbook.com/smells/old-church
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