SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0126
Pear
Permanent ID: smellbook: · updated 2026-10-06, revision 3
Character EDITORIAL
Pear smells fresh, watery and sweet, with a light green crispness in firmer fruit.
Words: fruity, fresh, sweet, green. Families: Fresh and clean, Sweet, fruity and floral.
States: fresh (EDITORIAL), cut (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: Market, Kitchen.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- Dominant volatiles of fragrant pears (CLM-PEAR-001). Ji Luan Chen, Ji Hong Wu, Qiang Wang, Hui Deng & Xiao Song Hu, Changes in the Volatile Compounds and Chemical and Physical Properties of Kuerle Fragrant Pear (Pyrus serotina Reld) during Storage, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2006.
Molecules named in these claims: butyl acetate, ethanol, ethyl acetate, ethyl butanoate, ethyl hexanoate, hexanal, hexyl acetate, α-farnesene. 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). Pear (revision 3, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:pear. https://smellbook.com/smells/pear
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