SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0035
Cinnamon
Permanent ID: smellbook: · updated 2026-10-06, revision 3
Character EDITORIAL
Cinnamon smells warm, sweet and spicy, with a woody, slightly hot edge.
Words: spicy, warm, sweet, woody. Families: Temperature and texture, Sweet, fruity and floral, Sharp and bitter, Wood, earth and stone.
Met in: Kitchen.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- Cinnamaldehyde in cinnamon bark aroma (CLM-CINNAMON-001). Wenwen Zhang, Chuankang Jia, Huimin Yan, Yalin Peng, Enmin Hu, Jun Qi & Qing Lin, Characteristic Aroma Compound in Cinnamon Bark Extract Using Soybean Oil and/or Water, Applied Sciences, 2022.
Molecules named in these claims: cinnamaldehyde, 1-octen-3-ol, anethole, hexanal, limonene, linalool, nonanal. A molecule listed here is named in a VERIFIED claim about this smell. It is not presented as the cause of the smell; each claim says what its source supports.
Cite
SmellBook. (2026). Cinnamon (revision 3, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:cinnamon. https://smellbook.com/smells/cinnamon
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