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A bright red-fruit smell combining sweet, fresh, green and juicy associations.
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Bright, sweet and juicy, strawberry has a red-fruit warmth lifted by a fresh green note reminiscent of the leafy tops. EDITORIAL
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Bright, sweet and juicy, strawberry has a red-fruit warmth lifted by a fresh green note reminiscent of the leafy tops. Ripe berries smell rich and slightly jammy, while underripe ones are thinner and greener. The scent is lively at first and softens as the fruit sits. It is often confused with strawberry-flavoured sweets, which tend to be louder and more candy-like than the real fruit.
Fresh punnets at a market, a bowl of berries on the table and desserts such as tarts, cakes or fruit salads are typical encounters. Pick-your-own fields on warm days offer a fuller, sun-warmed version.
Typical settings: fresh berries, dessert, market.
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One VERIFIED scientific claim from one published source is recorded for this entry: Volatile classes behind strawberry aroma. This claim says only what its source supports, in the scope shown with it.
Fresh strawberry and strawberry-flavored products can smell very different; this profile centers fresh fruit.
SmellBook records one written comparison with other smells: see it in Connections.
Words that are easy to mix up: Is fresh the same as clean?, How do green and herbal differ?, Why is creamy not just sweet? and Is citrus a kind of fresh?
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Scientific evidence · 1 claim
Volatile classes behind strawberry aroma
A review reports that fresh strawberries contain more than 360 volatile compounds, including esters, furans, terpenes, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones and sulfur compounds, and that terpenoids, furanones and sulfur compounds, though far less concentrated than the esters, have a considerable impact on how their aroma is perceived.
Compound classes rather than individual key odorants; the review also covers how drying changes the profile.
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Doaa Abouelenein, Laura Acquaticci, Laura Alessandroni, Germana Borsetta, Giovanni Caprioli, Cinzia Mannozzi, Riccardo Marconi, Diletta Piatti, Agnese Santanatoglia, Gianni Sagratini, Sauro Vittori & Ahmed M. Mustafa
DOI 10.3390/molecules28155810Links chosen by SmellBook editors, not a ranking.
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Fresh strawberry and strawberry-flavored products can smell very different; this profile centers fresh fruit.
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Editorial description expanded to answer what it smells like and where you meet it; independently reviewed.
Created 2026-09-22 · Updated 2026-10-06Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the first of three dataset releases of 2026-09-30.
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