SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0175
Old Basement
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Character EDITORIAL
An old basement smells cool, damp and dusty, with the mineral heaviness of concrete and stone and a musty, closed-in note from old wood, cardboard and stored things.
Words: damp, dusty, cool, stored. Families: Temperature and texture, Animal, material and lived-in.
States: wet (EDITORIAL), aged (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: Basement.
Evidence
Historical evidence
- A Maine cellar remembered in a 1926 memoir (CLM-CELLAR-001). Sarah Bixby Smith, Adobe Days, Torch Press, 1926.
Cite
SmellBook. (2026). Old Basement (revision 4, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:old-basement. https://smellbook.com/smells/old-basement
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