SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0076
Pencil Shavings
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Character EDITORIAL
Pencil shavings smell dry, woody and clean, with a sweet, cedar-like note and a faint, slightly metallic hint.
Words: woody, dry, clean. Families: Temperature and texture, Fresh and clean, Wood, earth and stone.
States: fresh (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: School.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- Odorants of incense cedar pencil wood (CLM-INCENSECEDAR-001). Linda Schreiner, Helene M. Loos & Andrea Buettner, Identification of odorants in wood of Calocedrus decurrens (Torr.) Florin by aroma extract dilution analysis and two-dimensional gas chromatography–mass spectrometry/olfactometry, Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 2017.
Molecules named in these claims: thymoquinone. 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). Pencil Shavings (revision 4, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:pencil-shavings. https://smellbook.com/smells/pencil-shavings
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