SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0006
Rose
Permanent ID: smellbook: · updated 2026-10-14, revision 5
Character EDITORIAL
Rose smells soft and petal-like, with a fresh green note and, in some flowers, a light honeyed sweetness.
Words: floral, petal, green, soft. Families: Temperature and texture, Fresh and clean, Sweet, fruity and floral.
States: fresh (VERIFIED), cut (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, Florist shop.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- Main volatiles of fresh white oil-bearing rose (CLM-ROSE-001). Daniela Antonova-Nedeltcheva, Ana Dobreva, Kamelia Gechovska & Liudmil Antonov, Volatile Compounds Profiling of Fresh R. alba L. Blossom by Headspace—Solid Phase Microextraction and Gas Chromatography, Molecules, 2025.
- Two trace odorants of damask rose flowers (CLM-ROSE-002). Teruhisa Ohashi et al., Identification of Odor-Active Trace Compounds in Blooming Flower of Damask Rose (Rosa damascena), Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 2019.
Molecules named in these claims: 2-phenylethanol, citronellol, geraniol, nerol, rotundone. 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). Rose (revision 5, 2026-10-14). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:rose. https://smellbook.com/smells/rose
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