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Petrichor
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Character EDITORIAL
Petrichor smells earthy, mineral and fresh, with a sudden dusty sweetness as rain first touches dry ground.
Words: earthy, mineral, wet, fresh. Families: Fresh and clean, Wood, earth and stone.
States: wet (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: Garden.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- Petrichor and rain on dry ground (CLM-PETRICHOR-001; VERIFIED, not checked against the source text). I. J. Bear & R. G. Thomas, Nature of Argillaceous Odour, Nature, 1964.
Cite
SmellBook. (2026). Petrichor (revision 3, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:petrichor. https://smellbook.com/smells/petrichor
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