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Wet leaves, soil, flowers and cool air combining into a vivid post-rain garden atmosphere.
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A garden after rain smells wet, green and earthy, with fresh leaves, damp soil and flowers that seem brighter than before. EDITORIAL
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QUESTIONS ABOUT GARDEN AFTER RAIN
A garden after rain smells wet, green and earthy, with fresh leaves, damp soil and flowers that seem brighter than before. The air feels cool and clean, and each plant seems more fragrant than usual. The impression is vivid for a short while and then softens as the garden dries. It is close to rain and petrichor, though greener and more floral.
People meet it when stepping into a garden or park after a shower, at greenhouse doors, and along paths edged with wet hedges and flower beds. A warm-weather shower over a garden in full leaf often makes it especially vivid.
Typical settings: garden after shower, park after rain, wet greenhouse edge.
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One VERIFIED scientific claim from one published source is recorded for this entry: Petrichor and rain on dry ground. This claim could not be checked against its source's own words, because no abstract or other summary of the source was available; it says only what is shown in its scope.
Garden After Rain is a composite environment profile rather than a single source smell.
SmellBook records one written comparison with other smells: see it in Connections.
Words that are easy to mix up: What is the difference between earthy and mineral?, Is fresh the same as clean?, How do green and herbal differ? and Is citrus a kind of fresh?
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Petrichor and rain on dry ground
The scientific literature has used the term petrichor for the characteristic earthy odour associated with rain acting on dry mineral and soil environments.
Historical scientific framing of petrichor; this does not mean every rainy environment has one identical chemical profile.
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I. J. Bear & R. G. Thomas
DOI 10.1038/201993a0Links chosen by SmellBook editors, not a ranking.
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Garden After Rain is a composite environment profile rather than a single source smell.
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Editorial description expanded to answer what it smells like and where you meet it; independently reviewed.
Created 2026-09-22 · Updated 2026-10-06Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the first of three dataset releases of 2026-09-30.
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