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Fresh Bedsheets

Permanent ID: smellbook:smell:fresh-bedsheets · updated 2026-10-19, revision 4

Character EDITORIAL

Fresh bedsheets smell soft, clean and light, with clean cotton, a gentle trace of laundry scent and a cool, airy freshness.

Words: clean, soft, fabric, fresh. Families: Temperature and texture, Fresh and clean, Animal, material and lived-in.

States: fresh (EDITORIAL). A state says how an entry is met, such as wet, aged or roasted. It does not create a new smell, and it adds no scientific fact by itself: states marked EDITORIAL come from the entry's own records, and only those marked VERIFIED are reported by a VERIFIED claim.

Met in: Hotel.

Evidence

Historical evidence

  • Lavender-scented sheets in seventeenth-century inns (CLM-BEDSHEETS-001). Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II, Volume One, Porter & Coates, Philadelphia, 1876.

Cite

SmellBook. (2026). Fresh Bedsheets (revision 4, 2026-10-19). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:fresh-bedsheets. https://smellbook.com/smells/fresh-bedsheets

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