SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0037
Toast
Permanent ID: smellbook: · updated 2026-10-06, revision 3
Character EDITORIAL
Toast smells warm, dry and roasted, with a golden crispness and a nutty, slightly sweet depth.
Words: toasted, warm, dry, roasted. Families: Temperature and texture, Cooked and fermented.
States: toasted (VERIFIED). 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: Kitchen, Hotel, Office.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- What toasting releases from bread (CLM-TOASTING-001). Joana Pico, Iuliia Khomenko, Vittorio Capozzi, Luciano Navarini & Franco Biasioli, Real-Time Monitoring of Volatile Compounds Losses in the Oven during Baking and Toasting of Gluten-Free Bread Doughs: A PTR-MS Evidence, Foods, 2020.
Cite
SmellBook. (2026). Toast (revision 3, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:toast. https://smellbook.com/smells/toast
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