SMELL WORD · ANIMAL, MATERIAL AND LIVED-IN
Animalic
Animal, fur, body or warm organic smell character.
Spanish (pilot): Animálico · pending native-speaker review
animalic · damp · warm · musky
Open entry →Smell entry · Type: Animal / ExperienceCat Furanimalic · soft · warm · dry
Open entry →Smell entry · Type: Material / StateWet Wooldamp · animalic · soft · warm
Open entry →Smell entry · Type: Place / Animal EnvironmentStablehay · animalic · woody · earthy
Open entry →Close words
Same family: animal, material and lived-in
SmellBook uses “animalic” as descriptive language, not as a precise lab measurement. People can apply the same word differently depending on context and experience.
Often used with animalic
- Warm: 3 of 4 entries
- Soft: 2 of 4 entries
- Dry: 1 of 4 entries
- Earthy: 1 of 4 entries
- Fabric: 1 of 4 entries
- Woody: 1 of 4 entries
Counts of Atlas entries described by both words. They show how SmellBook's entries use the vocabulary, not how people perceive smells, and they change as entries are added. All counts (JSON)
Permanent identifier smellbook:descriptor:animalic · This record and its links as data (JSON)
Cite as SmellBook. (2026). Animalic (descriptor). SmellBook knowledge graph, dataset release of 2026-11-11. smellbook:descriptor:animalic. https://smellbook.com/descriptors/animalic
Dataset 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 2026-10-01 (localized names).