SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0064
Lilac
Permanent ID: smellbook: · updated 2026-10-06, revision 3
Character EDITORIAL
Lilac is soft, sweet and floral, with a powdery note and a fresh green lift from leaves and stems.
Words: floral, soft, sweet, green. Families: Temperature and texture, Fresh and clean, Sweet, fruity and floral.
States: fresh (VERIFIED), cut (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: Garden, Park.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- Characteristic scent compounds of lilac flowers (CLM-LILAC-001). Zu-Guang Li, Maw-Rong Lee & De-Long Shen, Analysis of volatile compounds emitted from fresh Syringa oblata flowers in different florescence by headspace solid-phase microextraction–gas chromatography–mass spectrometry, Analytica Chimica Acta, 2006.
Molecules named in these claims: linalool, 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). Lilac (revision 3, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:lilac. https://smellbook.com/smells/lilac
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