SMELL WORD · TEMPERATURE AND TEXTURE
Powdery
Fine, soft, cosmetic or dust-like smell character.
Spanish (pilot): Atalcado · pending native-speaker review
powdery · soft · clean · cosmetic
Open entry →Smell entry · Type: Material / ExperienceDustdry · powdery · muted · stale
Open entry →Smell entry · Type: Source / Fragrance ReferenceLavenderaromatic · floral · herbal · dry
Open entry →Smell entry · Type: Product / Cultural ExperienceDetergentclean · fresh · concentrated
Open entry →Powdery in SmellBook Learn
- Floral and Powdery · Smell Vocabulary word pair
Close words
Easily confused with
- Where do floral and powdery meet? (SmellBook Learn)
SmellBook uses “powdery” as descriptive language, not as a precise lab measurement. People can apply the same word differently depending on context and experience.
Often used with powdery
- Clean: 2 of 4 entries
- Dry: 2 of 4 entries
- Creamy: 1 of 4 entries
- Floral: 1 of 4 entries
- Fresh: 1 of 4 entries
- Herbal: 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:powdery · This record and its links as data (JSON)
Cite as SmellBook. (2026). Powdery (descriptor). SmellBook knowledge graph, dataset release of 2026-11-11. smellbook:descriptor:powdery. https://smellbook.com/descriptors/powdery
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).