New Shoes

A manufactured footwear smell combining rubber, leather or synthetic materials, adhesives and packaging.

newmaterialrubberymanufactured

ATLAS POSITION099 / 200

MILESTONEIconic 100

PRIMARY CATEGORYObjects & Materials

PUBLIC TYPEExperience

PROFILE STATUScomplete

COLORShoe-box neutral TEXTURENew sole and upper SOUNDShoe box opened TEMPERATUREMild

CULTURAL3associations / context

EXPERIMENTAL2nearby / prototype structure

VERIFIED0published source-backed claims

Source registry ↗

01SENSORY ASSOCIATIONSCULTURAL

Color: Shoe-box neutral
Texture: New sole and upper
Temperature: Mild
Sound: Shoe box opened

02FEELS LIKECULTURAL

newnessshoppinganticipation

Associations can vary strongly by person, place and culture.

03CONTEXTCULTURAL

shoe boxstorenew footwear

04NEARBYEXPERIMENTAL

Early editorial relationships, not a live graph ranking.

05SCIENCE & SOURCESEXPERIMENTAL

No VERIFIED scientific claim is attached to this early profile yet.

SmellBook will add citations claim-by-claim when reliable sources are available. Cultural associations and prototype relationships remain labeled separately.

Read the public methodology ↗Open source registry ↗

WHERE THIS SMELL APPEARS

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Feelings

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PROFILE NOTE

New Shoes varies by materials and manufacturing; this is a broad product-category profile.

EDITORIAL REVISIONRevision 1

Initial public canonical profile.

Created 2026-09-22 · Updated 2026-09-22

EVIDENCE MATTERS

A profile can contain different kinds of knowledge.

SmellBook separates cultural association, community perception, verified evidence, prediction and experimental relationships rather than presenting them as the same thing. Read the evidence guide ↗ See evidence coverage ↗