SMELLS IN HISTORY · IN SOURCES PUBLISHED 1901
1901
SmellBook holds 1 checked passage from a source published in 1901. The passage states no time of its own, so 1901 is only the latest time it can describe; it may describe an earlier time. The passage records what one source wrote, not what everything smelled like.
SmellBook records: In a 1901 edition of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's novel La barraca, the narrator depicts how, from time to time, as the cathedral's inner doors open, a cool, damp breath of incense, likened to air from an underground place, spreads into the warm square outside Valencia Cathedral while the judges of the Water Tribunal talk by the door before their session.
Claim: Incense outside Valencia Cathedral in La barraca · La barraca (novel, poem or play), ch. IV. The passage states no time; the source's publication date is used as the latest possible time it describes.
About this time
A period is the time a checked historical passage describes, kept at the precision the evidence gives: a century (only when the passage states one), a year, a month or a day; when a passage states no time, its publication date is used as the latest time it can describe. A smell is linked to it only through a VERIFIED claim on a historical source. Each link records what one source wrote, which may be later than the time it describes; it does not describe a whole city or era, it says nothing about the smell today, and it is not evidence that a smell has changed or disappeared. Decades and centuries only group these records for browsing.
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This period and its links, each with where it comes from, as data.
Permanent identifier smellbook:period:1901 · Graph record (JSON)
Cite as SmellBook. (2026). 1901 (period). SmellBook knowledge graph, dataset release of 2026-10-25. smellbook:period:1901. https://smellbook.com/periods/1901
Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the dataset release of 2026-10-19.