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Card 761 of 9772026-09-26 issue

Observed arrival · 2026-09-26

SmellBook’s public atlas of 200 smells

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Editorial interest 79/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

A searchable atlas organizes human smells across nature, food, places, memory, fragrance, and spaces.

Landing page captured for the 2026-09-26 issue.
For
Readers exploring smell, memory, and sensory categories
Worth noticing
Recent entries extend beyond ingredients to settings such as a school cafeteria, hotel bathroom, and backpack.

Field notes

The homepage frames the atlas as a set of 200 canonical identities, with descriptors attached to entries such as Rain (“cool · wet · mineral”) and Coffee (“roasted · warm · bitter”). Visitors are offered routes through the material by category, feeling, season, time, collection, or comparison, alongside stories and learning pages. Recent additions include settings such as a school cafeteria, hotel bathroom, and backpack, extending the catalog beyond ingredients and perfumes.

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Editorial observations of this landing page, not a rating.

○OpenPublic substance visible
✦PrettyNotable craft visible
●ProPolished or operationally mature
◎NicheUnusually specific use
ƒJavaScriptBrowser-side code central

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Landing page observed 2026-09-26. The live site may have changed.