Scent dictionary · Scent families
Smoky & Mineral
Khói khoáng
Straw smoke, charcoal, hot cement, rusty iron. The only family with neither a plant nor an animal origin, and also the hardest to describe, because there is nothing to compare it with.
9 entries · 6 linked compounds
Furfural · 162 °C
1-Octen-3-one · 175 °C
Guaiacol · 205 °C
Naphthalene · 218 °C
Creosol · 221 °C
Syringol · 261 °C
150 °CTop
Middle
290 °CBase
6 linked compounds, from 4 of the family’s 9 entries. This is what we have been able to trace so far, not the whole chemistry of the family — entries whose chemistry is still blank will fill in the picture over time.
Smoky & Mineral9 entries
Every entry
- Charcoal ember · Than củiA glowing lump of charcoal, the rising heat smelled from half a metre away
- Diesel fuel · Dầu dieselStand beside a fuel station while a truck is filling up
- Electric welding · Hàn điệnWalk past a metal workshop where welding is going on, smelling from a distance
- Firework smoke · Pháo vừa nổStand near where fireworks have just been set off and smell the first white smoke
- Hot asphalt · Nhựa đường nóngWalk past a stretch of road being surfaced, smelling downwind
- Hot cement · Xi măng nóngGo out onto a concrete yard at midday just before rain, bend down and smell
- Metallic smell · Sắt gỉHold a rusty iron bar in a damp hand for about ten seconds, then smell your palm
- Straw smoke · Khói rơmA pile of straw burning in the fields after the harvest
- Struck match · Diêm vừa quẹtStrike a match and smell the moment the flame flares