Cork

A dry porous woody material smell associated with cork stoppers, boards and natural bark products.

dry woodyearthymaterial

ATLAS POSITION103 / 200

MILESTONEAtlas 150

PRIMARY CATEGORYObjects & Materials

PUBLIC TYPEProduct / Material

PROFILE STATUScomplete

COLORCork tan TEXTUREPorous bark SOUNDCork pulled TEMPERATUREDry

CULTURAL3associations / context

EXPERIMENTAL2nearby / prototype structure

VERIFIED0published source-backed claims

Source registry ↗

01SENSORY ASSOCIATIONSCULTURAL

Color: Cork tan
Texture: Porous bark
Temperature: Dry
Sound: Cork pulled

02FEELS LIKECULTURAL

naturalcraftfamiliarity

Associations can vary strongly by person, place and culture.

03CONTEXTCULTURAL

bottle stoppercork boardmaterial sample

04NEARBYEXPERIMENTAL

Early editorial relationships, not a live graph ranking.

05SCIENCE & SOURCESEXPERIMENTAL

No VERIFIED scientific claim is attached to this early profile yet.

SmellBook will add citations claim-by-claim when reliable sources are available. Cultural associations and prototype relationships remain labeled separately.

Read the public methodology ↗Open source registry ↗

WHERE THIS SMELL APPEARS

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These links are editorial navigation across the public atlas—not live graph scores.

PROFILE NOTE

Cork is presented as a material identity rather than a wine-quality indicator.

EDITORIAL REVISIONRevision 1

Initial public canonical profile.

Created 2026-09-22 · Updated 2026-09-22

EVIDENCE MATTERS

A profile can contain different kinds of knowledge.

SmellBook separates cultural association, community perception, verified evidence, prediction and experimental relationships rather than presenting them as the same thing. Read the evidence guide ↗ See evidence coverage ↗