EVERYDAY SETTING · NATURE AND COUNTRYSIDE
Forest
Spanish (pilot): Bosque · pending native-speaker review
11 SmellBook entries are linked to forest as smells found there.
Kind of place: Nature and countryside
What does a forest smell like? EDITORIAL
- Cedar: Cedar smells dry, warm and woody, with a clean, pencil-like character and a light resinous edge. VERIFIED evidence on the entry.
- Soil: Soil smells earthy, damp and dark, with a mineral note and a rich organic depth. VERIFIED evidence on the entry.
- Pine Needles: Pine needles smell green, resinous and clean, with a sharp, slightly sticky brightness when crushed. VERIFIED evidence on the entry.
- Pine Forest: A pine forest smells green, resinous and woody, with cool air, damp soil and the dry sweetness of fallen needles. VERIFIED evidence on the entry.
- Mushroom: Mushroom smells earthy, damp and savoury, with a soft, slightly nutty and forest-floor quality. VERIFIED evidence on the entry.
- Moss: Cool, damp and green, moss smells like shaded earth with a soft, slightly bitter freshness. VERIFIED evidence on the entry.
- Pine Resin: Pine resin opens with a sharp, sticky brightness that feels almost cooling at the front of the nose. VERIFIED evidence on the entry.
- Autumn Leaves: Autumn leaves smell leafy and earthy, moving between a dry, papery crackle and a damp, mellow sweetness. VERIFIED evidence on the entry.
- Dry Leaves: Dry leaves smell papery, dusty and lightly earthy, with a faint sweetness like weak tea or hay.
- Wet Forest: A wet forest smells damp, earthy and green, with soaked bark, moss and soil forming a deep, cool base.
- Rain: Rain smells cool, wet and quietly mineral, with an earthy undertone that seems to hang over soil and pavement once the first drops have fallen. VERIFIED evidence on the entry.
SMELL WORDS USED
earthy (8) · damp (5) · green (5) · woody (5) · dry (4) · resinous (4) · cool (2) · leafy (2)
EVIDENCE
9 of 11 cite a VERIFIED source: Rain, Cedar, Soil, Pine Needles, Pine Forest, Mushroom, Moss, Pine Resin, Autumn Leaves
Smell words are the entries' own descriptors, counted. Evidence lists the entries that cite a VERIFIED source; the place or material link itself is editorial.
A guide to forest smells EDITORIAL
An everyday setting is a kind of place, such as a kitchen or a market, not one location: it has no address or coordinates. Its smells are linked by SmellBook editors, mostly from the entries' own records; the list below says how each link was made. These links are editorial; only the claims on each entry are VERIFIED.
11 entries are linked here. 9 of them have VERIFIED scientific claims of their own: Cedar, Soil, Pine Needles, Pine Forest, Mushroom, Moss, Pine Resin, Autumn Leaves and 1 more.
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Smellscape journeys through this setting
How these 11 links were made
- Cedar: The entry lists this setting among the places it is met. Words in the entry: “forest trail”. Recorded on .
- Soil: The entry lists this setting among the places it is met. Words in the entry: “forest floor”. Recorded on .
- Pine Needles: The entry lists this setting among the places it is met. Words in the entry: “forest floor”. Recorded on .
- Pine Forest: The entry lists this setting among the places it is met. Words in the entry: “mountain forest”. Recorded on .
- Mushroom: The entry lists this setting among the places it is met. Words in the entry: “woodland”. Recorded on .
- Moss: The entry lists this setting among the places it is met. Words in the entry: “shaded forest”. Recorded on .
- Pine Resin: The entry lists this setting among the places it is met. Words in the entry: “forest trail”. Recorded on .
- Autumn Leaves: The entry lists this setting among the places it is met. Words in the entry: “forest path”. Recorded on .
- Dry Leaves: The entry lists this setting among the places it is met. Words in the entry: “forest edge”. Recorded on .
- Wet Forest: The entry lists this setting among the places it is met. Words in the entry: “forest after rain”. Recorded on .
- Rain: The entry's description names this setting. Words in the entry: “People notice it when stepping outside after a downpour, on city pavements darkening with water, and along forest paths where wet soil scents the air.”. Recorded on .
Forest was added as an everyday setting on , from the settings the entries themselves record: cool woodland, forest after rain, forest edge, forest floor, forest path, forest trail, mountain forest, shaded forest, shaded trail, wet woodland, woodland. Independently reviewed by a second editor before release.
woody · dry · warm · resinous
Open entry ↗Source / EnvironmentSoilearthy · damp · mineral · organic
Open entry ↗SourcePine Needlesgreen · resinous · woody · dry
Open entry ↗Place / EnvironmentPine Forestgreen · resinous · woody · earthy
Open entry ↗Source / FoodMushroomearthy · damp · savoury · soft
Open entry ↗Source / EnvironmentMossgreen · damp · earthy · cool
Open entry ↗Source / MaterialPine Resinresinous · green · woody · sharp
Open entry ↗Seasonal / EnvironmentAutumn Leavesleafy · earthy · dry · damp
Open entry ↗Material / StateDry Leavesdry · leafy · papery · earthy
Open entry ↗Place / StateWet Forestdamp · earthy · green · woody
Open entry ↗PhenomenonRainwet · mineral · cool · earthy
Open entry ↗- Leaf litter (Dry Leaves)
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Places and materials are linked to smells by SmellBook editors. The links are editorial evidence: they say where a smell entry belongs, not that a place or material always smells this way.
Permanent identifier smellbook:place:forest · Graph record (JSON)
Cite as SmellBook. (2026). Forest (place). SmellBook knowledge graph, unreleased changes since the dataset release of 2026-10-07. smellbook:place:forest. https://smellbook.com/places/forest
Dataset history Not yet in a dataset release; it will appear in the next one.