01SENSORY ASSOCIATIONSCULTURAL
- Color
- Tennis yellow
- Texture
- Felt over rubber
- Temperature
- Mild
- Sound
- Can opened
SmellBook editorialCULTURALRevision 1
Tennis Ball
A distinctive new-sporting-goods smell combining rubber, felt and freshly opened packaging.
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ATLAS POSITION100 / 200
MILESTONEIconic 100
PRIMARY CATEGORYObjects & Materials
PUBLIC TYPEExperience
PROFILE STATUScomplete
CULTURAL3associations / context
EXPERIMENTAL2nearby / prototype structure
VERIFIED0published source-backed claims
Source registry ↗02FEELS LIKECULTURAL
sportnewnessplay
Associations can vary strongly by person, place and culture.
03CONTEXTCULTURAL
new tennis ball cansports shopcourt
04NEARBYEXPERIMENTAL
Early editorial relationships, not a live graph ranking.
05SCIENCE & SOURCESEXPERIMENTAL
No VERIFIED scientific claim is attached to this early profile yet.
SmellBook will add citations claim-by-claim when reliable sources are available. Cultural associations and prototype relationships remain labeled separately.
WHERE THIS SMELL APPEARS
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Tennis Ball is an iconic product smell recognized through both rubber material and felt packaging context.
EDITORIAL REVISIONRevision 1
Initial public canonical profile.
Created 2026-09-22 · Updated 2026-09-22EVIDENCE MATTERS
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