COMPARE TWO SMELLS

Soil vs Wet Stone

Both can feel cool and mineral after rain, but soil adds organic earthiness while wet stone stays more stony and surface-focused.

Soil

Earthy, damp and organic impressions associated with exposed ground and garden soil.

earthydampmineralorganic

Type: Source / Environment

Sensory associations CULTURAL

Color: Deep earth brown
Texture: Loose dark soil
Temperature: Cool

Associations can vary strongly by person, place and culture.

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Wet Stone

A cool mineral impression created when stone, water and air meet.

mineralcoolclean

Type: State

Sensory associations CULTURAL

Color: Slate grey
Texture: Smooth damp stone
Temperature: Cool

Associations can vary strongly by person, place and culture.

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In the evidence

Named for both: No molecule is named in the evidence for both.
Only Soil: geosmin
Only Wet Stone: None named.

Molecules named by VERIFIED claims about each entry, in the roles the claims give them. Sharing a molecule does not make two smells alike, and an entry with none named may simply have less evidence so far.

Side by side: Soil and Wet Stone

What SmellBook records about Soil and Wet Stone
Field	Soil	Wet Stone	Shared
Record	SB-0013 · smellbook:smell:soil	SB-0002 · smellbook:smell:wet-stone	Not compared
Character EDITORIAL	Soil smells earthy, damp and dark, with a mineral note and a rich organic depth.	Wet stone has a cool, clean, mineral smell, faint but clear, like cold water held against a rocky surface.	Not compared
Smell words EDITORIAL	earthy, damp, mineral, organic	mineral, cool, clean	mineral
Families EDITORIAL	Wood, earth and stone	Temperature and texture, Fresh and clean, Wood, earth and stone	Wood, earth and stone
Met in EDITORIAL	Garden, Forest	Street	None shared
States	wet (VERIFIED)	wet (editorial)	wet
VERIFIED evidence VERIFIED	2 claims from 3 sources	None yet	Not compared
Molecules named in claims VERIFIED	geosmin	None named	None shared
History	None linked yet	None linked yet	Not compared

What SmellBook records as different

Words: earthy, damp, organic only for Soil; cool, clean only for Wet Stone.
Families: none only for Soil; Temperature and texture, Fresh and clean only for Wet Stone.
Settings: Garden, Forest only for Soil; Street only for Wet Stone.
Molecules named in claims: geosmin only for Soil; none only for Wet Stone.

What is not known

How similar the two smell to any one person: SmellBook records no measurement of similarity between smells.
Why Wet Stone smells as it does: no VERIFIED scientific claim yet.
Which molecules the two share: the claims do not name molecules for both.

This table compares what SmellBook records about each smell. Rows marked EDITORIAL come from editors' descriptions and links; rows marked VERIFIED come from VERIFIED claims, each resting on a registered source; a claim that could not be checked against the source text says so on its own page. It is not a similarity score: SmellBook shows no percentage or distance between smells.

STATUS

Editorial comparison based on the current public profiles, not a live similarity score.