WHERE SMELLS COME FROM · FOOD & DRINK
Corn
2 smells in the Atlas come from corn. This page is about the food or drink; each smell has its own entry.
Connections
Smells that come from it (2) EDITORIAL
- Fresh Corn · sweet, green, grain
- Popcorn · when popped · toasted, warm, grain
How these smells are met (1) EDITORIAL
- Fresh Corn · fresh (EDITORIAL)
Links SmellBook records for this page, grouped the same way on every origin, place and material page. Place, material and origin links are editorial: they say where an entry belongs, not that every example smells this way.
VERIFIED claims recorded for the smell entries above. Each claim is about the smell it names, in the scope its source supports; none is about every corn.
- Volatiles linked to popcorn aroma (Popcorn)
- Dimethyl sulfide in cooked sweet corn (Fresh Corn)
- Primary odorants of freshly prepared popcorn (Popcorn)
SmellBook editors link each smell to the real-world thing it comes from. The link is editorial: it says what the entry is about, not that every plant, food or animal of that kind smells the same, and it is not a scientific finding. Kinds are a browsing aid, not a biological classification.
For researchers and developers
Graph record
This origin and its links, each with where it comes from, as data.
Permanent identifier smellbook:origin:corn · Graph record (JSON)
Cite as SmellBook. (2026). Corn (origin). SmellBook knowledge graph, dataset release of 2026-10-25. smellbook:origin:corn. https://smellbook.com/origins/corn
Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the second of two dataset releases of 2026-10-18.