EVERYDAY SETTING · TRANSPORT
Car
Spanish (pilot): Coche · pending native-speaker review
5 SmellBook entries are linked to car as smells found there.
Kind of place: Transport
What does a car smell like? EDITORIAL
- Leather: Leather smells dry, warm and dark, with a slightly smoky, woody or animal-like depth depending on its finish. VERIFIED evidence on the entry.
- New Car: A new car smells clean and synthetic, with a soft plastic note, a faint leathery or fabric warmth and a slight sweetness. VERIFIED evidence on the entry.
- Plastic: Plastic smells clean, faintly sweet and synthetic, ranging from almost neutral to distinctly sharp. VERIFIED evidence on the entry.
- Wet Dog: Wet dog is a warm, damp and musky animal smell that grows stronger as the fur dries indoors.
- Backpack: A backpack smells of fabric and use, with dry canvas or nylon, paper and pencil shavings, and faint traces of food, fruit or crisps.
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 car 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.
5 entries are linked here. 3 of them have VERIFIED scientific claims of their own: Leather, New Car and Plastic.
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How these 5 links were made
- Leather: The entry lists this setting among the places it is met. Words in the entry: “car interior”. Recorded on .
- New Car: The entry lists this setting among the places it is met. Words in the entry: “new vehicle”. Recorded on .
- Plastic: The entry lists this setting among the places it is met. Words in the entry: “car interior”. Recorded on .
- Wet Dog: The entry lists this setting among the places it is met. Words in the entry: “car after a wet walk”. Recorded on .
- Backpack: The entry's description names this setting. Words in the entry: “It is met on school days and commutes, on day trips and hikes, and when a bag is opened after a long day, left in a warm car or emptied at the end of term.”. Recorded on .
Car was added as an everyday setting on , from the settings the entries themselves record: car after a wet walk, car interior, new vehicle. Independently reviewed by a second editor before release.
dry · warm · dark
Open entry ↗Product / Place ExperienceNew Carclean · synthetic
Open entry ↗MaterialPlasticsynthetic · clean
Open entry ↗Animal / State ExperienceWet Doganimalic · damp · warm · musky
Open entry ↗Object / Personal ExperienceBackpackfabric · paper · stored
Open entry ↗See on the map
The smell map filtered to this place.
Graph record
This entity and its typed relationships with provenance.
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:car · Graph record (JSON)
Cite as SmellBook. (2026). Car (place). SmellBook knowledge graph, unreleased changes since the dataset release of 2026-10-07. smellbook:place:car. https://smellbook.com/places/car
Dataset history Not yet in a dataset release; it will appear in the next one.