SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0014
Pine Needles
Permanent ID: smellbook: · updated 2026-10-06, revision 3
Character EDITORIAL
Pine needles smell green, resinous and clean, with a sharp, slightly sticky brightness when crushed.
Words: green, resinous, woody, dry. Families: Temperature and texture, Fresh and clean, Wood, earth and stone.
States: crushed (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: Pine forest, Forest.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- Volatiles of pine needle and cone oils (CLM-PINENEEDLE-001). Snježana Mirković, Vanja Tadić, Marina T. Milenković, Dušan Ušjak, Gordana Racić, Dragica Bojović & Ana Žugić, Antimicrobial Activities of Essential Oils of Different Pinus Species from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Pharmaceutics, 2024.
Molecules named in these claims: germacrene D, limonene, myrcene, α-pinene, β-caryophyllene, δ-3-carene. 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). Pine Needles (revision 3, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:pine-needles. https://smellbook.com/smells/pine-needles
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