Sea Air

Permanent ID: smellbook:smell:sea-air · updated 2026-10-06, revision 4

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Sea air smells salty, breezy and open, with a damp mineral note and a faint green tang near the shoreline.

Words: salty, airy, mineral, fresh. Families: Fresh and clean, Sharp and bitter, Wood, earth and stone.

Met in: Seaside.

Sea air at Greenwich in an 1845 sketch by Gautier (CLM-SEAAIR-001). Théophile Gautier, Zigzags, Victor Magen, 1845.

SmellBook. (2026). Sea Air (revision 4, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:sea-air. https://smellbook.com/smells/sea-air

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