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A warm outdoor garden smell combining flowers, leaves, dry soil, herbs and sun-heated plant material.
Its type is State because its name already describes a condition, such as wet, toasted or after rain. That is a way of grouping entries; it is different from the states some entries list, which record how a smell is met. See how smells are grouped.
Setting: summer. An editorial word for the kind of place or occasion the smell belongs to, not a smell word.
A summer garden smells warm and green, with sweet floral notes from roses or honeysuckle drifting over the leafy smell of sunlit plants. EDITORIAL
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QUESTIONS ABOUT SUMMER GARDEN
A summer garden smells warm and green, with sweet floral notes from roses or honeysuckle drifting over the leafy smell of sunlit plants. Herbs such as lavender or thyme add aromatic touches, and dry soil gives a dusty warmth. The mix can change through the day, from warm and heavy in the afternoon to softer or sweeter at dusk, and it often seems fresher after watering.
It is met in home gardens, allotments and park planting on warm afternoons, while watering or mowing, and on summer evenings spent outdoors when the air is still and flowers are in full bloom.
Typical settings: home garden, park planting, warm afternoon.
SmellBook links it to 2 place pages: see them in Connections.
One VERIFIED scientific claim from one published source is recorded for this entry: Plant scents in a rehabilitation garden. This claim says only what its source supports, in the scope shown with it.
Summer Garden is a seasonal place profile and varies by planting, climate and watering.
Words that are easy to mix up: How do green and herbal differ?, Is every warm smell spicy? and Where do floral and powdery meet?
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Scientific evidence · 1 claim
Plant scents in a rehabilitation garden
People who had completed a 12-week nature-based rehabilitation programme at Alnarp Rehabilitation Garden in Sweden described how smells in the garden evoked associations, emotions and physical reactions, and how nature scents prompted sensory awareness and memories.
Interviews with participants treated for stress-related disorders in one rehabilitation garden; SmellBook reports the documented experiences, not the study's health conclusions, including those about particular plants.
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Anna María Pálsdóttir, Sara Spendrup, Lennart Mårtensson & Karin Wendin
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.667957Links chosen by SmellBook editors, not a ranking.
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Identity, revision history, corrections and how to cite Summer Garden.
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Summer Garden is a seasonal place profile and varies by planting, climate and watering.
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; changed in the first of two dataset releases of 2026-10-05 (descriptors).
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