01SENSORY ASSOCIATIONSCULTURAL
- Color
- Pencil wood
- Texture
- Fine curled shaving
- Temperature
- Dry
- Sound
- Pencil sharpener
SmellBook editorialCULTURALRevision 1
Pencil Shavings
A dry woody smell associated with freshly sharpened pencils, cedar-like wood and graphite-adjacent school materials.
ATLAS POSITION076 / 200
MILESTONEIconic 100
PRIMARY CATEGORYObjects & Materials
PUBLIC TYPEExperience
PROFILE STATUScomplete
CULTURAL3associations / context
EXPERIMENTAL2nearby / prototype structure
VERIFIED0published source-backed claims
Source registry ↗02FEELS LIKECULTURAL
focusschoolnostalgia
Associations can vary strongly by person, place and culture.
03CONTEXTCULTURAL
deskclassroomfreshly sharpened pencil
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.
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These links are editorial navigation across the public atlas—not live graph scores.
Pencil Shavings is an everyday material experience rather than a claim that all pencils use the same wood.
EDITORIAL REVISIONRevision 1
Initial public canonical profile.
Created 2026-09-22 · Updated 2026-09-22EVIDENCE MATTERS
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