SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0121
Fresh Milk
Permanent ID: smellbook: · updated 2026-10-06, revision 3
Character EDITORIAL
Fresh milk has a mild, creamy smell with a soft sweetness and a clean, cool finish.
Words: dairy, creamy, soft, fresh. Families: Temperature and texture, Fresh and clean.
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.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- Aroma-active compounds of milk (CLM-MILK-001). Kexin Jiang, Aolin Yang, Zheting Zhang, Kunli Xu, Huiyu Kuang, Fanyu Meng & Bei Wang, Identification of aroma-active compounds in milk by 2-dimensional gas chromatography-olfactometry-time-of-flight mass spectrometry combined with check-all-that-apply questions, Journal of Dairy Science, 2024.
Molecules named in these claims: γ-dodecalactone, γ-nonalactone. 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 Milk (revision 3, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:fresh-milk. https://smellbook.com/smells/fresh-milk
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