SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0039
Seaweed
Permanent ID: smellbook: · updated 2026-10-06, revision 3
Character EDITORIAL
Seaweed smells marine, salty and green, with a damp, slightly briny and sometimes savoury tone.
Words: marine, salty, green, damp. Families: Fresh and clean, Sharp and bitter.
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: Seaside, Market.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- Volatile compounds of edible seaweeds (CLM-SEAWEED-001). Shuang Li, Meijuan Hu, Yupei Tong, Zhangyi Xia, Yichao Tong, Yuqing Sun, Jiaxing Cao, Jianheng Zhang, Jinlin Liu, Shuang Zhao & Peimin He, A review of volatile compounds in edible macroalgae, Food Research International, 2023.
Molecules named in these claims: 2-octenal, 8-heptadecene, benzaldehyde, octanal, β-ionone. 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). Seaweed (revision 3, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:seaweed. https://smellbook.com/smells/seaweed
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