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Moss

Permanent ID: smellbook:smell:moss · updated 2026-10-06, revision 3

Character EDITORIAL

Cool, damp and green, moss smells like shaded earth with a soft, slightly bitter freshness.

Words: green, damp, earthy, cool. Families: Temperature and texture, Fresh and clean, Wood, earth and stone.

States: wet (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: Forest, Garden.

Evidence

Scientific evidence

  • Volatile constituents of mosses (CLM-MOSS-001). Yücel Saritas et al., Volatile constituents in mosses (Musci), Phytochemistry, 2001.

Cite

SmellBook. (2026). Moss (revision 3, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:moss. https://smellbook.com/smells/moss

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