01SENSORY ASSOCIATIONSCULTURAL
- Color
- Tomato-stem green
- Texture
- Fuzzy leaf
- Temperature
- Fresh
- Sound
- Stem snap
ATLAS POSITION011 / 200
MILESTONEIconic 100
PRIMARY CATEGORYNature
PUBLIC TYPESource
PROFILE STATUScomplete
CULTURAL3associations / context
EXPERIMENTAL2nearby / prototype structure
VERIFIED1published source-backed claims
Source registry ↗02FEELS LIKECULTURAL
vitalitysummercuriosity
Associations can vary strongly by person, place and culture.
03CONTEXTCULTURAL
vegetable gardengreenhousefreshly touched stem
04NEARBYEXPERIMENTAL
Early editorial relationships, not a live graph ranking.
05SCIENCE & SOURCESEXPERIMENTAL
VERIFIEDCLM-GREEN-001 ↗
Green leaf volatiles are rapidly produced when plant tissue is damaged, helping explain the vivid green odour associated with freshly cut or crushed plant material.
Supports the general mechanism of wound-induced green leaf volatiles; exact profiles vary across plant species and conditions.
VERIFIEDREVIEW
Green Leaf Volatiles—The Forefront of Plant Responses Against Biotic Attack
Kenji Matsui & Jurgen Engelberth
DOI 10.1093/pcp/pcac117WHERE THIS SMELL APPEARS
One profile can belong to many routes.
These links are editorial navigation across the public atlas—not live graph scores.
Tomato Leaf represents the smell identity of the plant rather than the ripe fruit.
EDITORIAL REVISIONRevision 2
Added VERIFIED green-leaf-volatiles evidence provenance.
Created 2026-09-22 · Updated 2026-09-22EVIDENCE MATTERS
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