SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0188
Parking Garage
Permanent ID: smellbook: · updated 2026-10-06, revision 5
Character EDITORIAL
A parking garage smells of cold concrete, rubber tyres and dust, mixed with faint traces of fuel and exhaust.
Words: concrete, rubbery, industrial. Families: Animal, material and lived-in.
Met in: Parking garage.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- Fuel evaporation in an underground garage (CLM-PARKING-001). Yajun Wu, Yan Liu, Peiji Liu, Luna Sun, Pengfei Song, Jianfei Peng, Ruikang Li, Ning Wei et al., Evaluating vehicular exhaust and evaporative emissions via VOC measurement in an underground parking garage, Environmental Pollution, 2023.
Cite
SmellBook. (2026). Parking Garage (revision 5, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:parking-garage. https://smellbook.com/smells/parking-garage
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