SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0116
Hospital Corridor
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Character EDITORIAL
A hospital corridor smells clean, cool and clinical, with a sharp, slightly stinging edge from cleaned floors and surfaces.
Words: clean, cool. Families: Temperature and texture, Fresh and clean.
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: Hospital.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- Alcohols in hospital air (CLM-HOSPITAL-001). Vincent Bessonneau et al., VOC Contamination in Hospital, from Stationary Sampling of a Large Panel of Compounds, in View of Healthcare Workers and Patients Exposure Assessment, PLoS ONE, 2013.
Molecules named in these claims: ethanol, isopropanol. 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). Hospital Corridor (revision 4, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:hospital-corridor. https://smellbook.com/smells/hospital-corridor
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