SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0038
Mushroom
Permanent ID: smellbook: · updated 2026-10-06, revision 3
Character EDITORIAL
Mushroom smells earthy, damp and savoury, with a soft, slightly nutty and forest-floor quality.
Words: earthy, damp, savoury, soft. Families: Temperature and texture, Wood, earth and stone.
States: cooked (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: Forest, Kitchen, Market.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- Main aroma component of cooked button mushroom (CLM-MUSHROOM-001). Limei Xie, Shaoli Guo, Hongting Rao, Bingying Lan, Baodong Zheng & Ningning Zhang, Characterization of Volatile Flavor Compounds and Aroma Active Components in Button Mushroom (Agaricus bisporus) across Various Cooking Methods, Foods, 2024.
Molecules named in these claims: 1-octen-3-one. 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). Mushroom (revision 3, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:mushroom. https://smellbook.com/smells/mushroom
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