SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0001
Rain
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Character EDITORIAL
Rain smells cool, wet and quietly mineral, with an earthy undertone that seems to hang over soil and pavement once the first drops have fallen.
Words: wet, mineral, cool, earthy. Families: Temperature and texture, 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: Street, Forest.
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). Rain (revision 3, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:rain. https://smellbook.com/smells/rain
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