SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0187
Hardware Store
Permanent ID: smellbook: · updated 2026-10-06, revision 4
Character EDITORIAL
A hardware store smells of materials: cut timber and sawdust, cool metal, rubber hoses, paint, cardboard packaging and a faint trace of oil or fertiliser.
Words: industrial, woody. Families: Wood, earth and stone, Animal, material and lived-in.
States: indoors (VERIFIED). 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: Hardware store.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- Wood terpenes in a home improvement store (CLM-HARDWARE-001). Leonardo Furst, Yago Cipoli, Eduardo Yubero, Nuria Galindo, Carla Viegas, Marta Dias, Teresa Nunes, Getúlio Igrejas et al., Indoor air quality in a home improvement store: Gaseous pollutants, bioburden and particle-bound chemical constituents, Building and Environment, 2025.
Molecules named in these claims: hexanal, limonene, α-pinene. 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). Hardware Store (revision 4, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:hardware-store. https://smellbook.com/smells/hardware-store
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