SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0185
Fresh Carpet
Permanent ID: smellbook: · updated 2026-10-06, revision 4
Character EDITORIAL
New carpet smells strongly of newness: a dry, synthetic, slightly plasticky note from the fibres and backing, often with a sharper, glue-like edge underneath.
Words: fabric. Families: 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: Office.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- The source of new-carpet odour (CLM-CARPET-001). Alfred T. Hodgson, John D. Wooley & Joan M. Daisey, Emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds from New Carpets Measured in a Large-Scale Environmental Chamber, Air & Waste, 1993.
Molecules named in these claims: 4-phenylcyclohexene, styrene. 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). Fresh Carpet (revision 4, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:fresh-carpet. https://smellbook.com/smells/fresh-carpet
https: