SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0174
New Apartment
Permanent ID: smellbook: · updated 2026-10-06, revision 4
Character EDITORIAL
A newly finished apartment smells clean and blank, led by fresh paint and the sharp, slightly sweet smell of new materials such as flooring, sealant and fittings.
Words: clean. Families: 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: Apartment.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- Indoor air in new apartments over two years (CLM-NEWAPARTMENT-001). Seung-Ho Shin & Wan-Kuen Jo, Longitudinal variations in indoor VOC concentrations after moving into new apartments and indoor source characterization, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2013.
Cite
SmellBook. (2026). New Apartment (revision 4, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:new-apartment. https://smellbook.com/smells/new-apartment
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