SMELLBOOK REFERENCE · SB-0128
Watermelon
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Character EDITORIAL
Watermelon smells watery, fresh and lightly sweet, with a cool green note from the rind.
Words: fruity, watery, fresh, green. Families: Fresh and clean, Sweet, fruity and floral.
States: fresh (VERIFIED). 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: Market.
Evidence
Scientific evidence
- C9 aldehydes in watermelon aroma (CLM-WATERMELON-001). Ye Liu, Congcong He & Huanlu Song, Comparison of fresh watermelon juice aroma characteristics of five varieties based on gas chromatography-olfactometry-mass spectrometry, Food Research International, 2018.
Molecules named in these claims: (E,E)-2,4-nonadienal, (E,Z)-2,6-nonadienal, (E)-2-nonenal, (Z)-6-nonenal. 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). Watermelon (revision 3, 2026-10-06). SmellBook Public Atlas. smellbook:smell:watermelon. https://smellbook.com/smells/watermelon
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