The Olfactive Map
20 families and 159 subfamilies, ordered so that every boundary is a real transition — charred oak into roasted bean, tar into hide, aldehyde into soap. Every facet is scored on 10 bipolar axes; the descriptors sit in the list below the wheel, where they can be read and used to search. Sign in to colour the ring by your own library and see what you are missing.
Inner band: 20 families, each as wide as the facets it holds. Outer band: 159 subfamilies, one equal arc each. Click a family to zoom, a facet to read it.
Pick a family, or a facet inside one
20 families ordered so that every boundary is a real transition — charred oak into roasted bean, tar into hide, aldehyde into soap. Bridges cross the middle where the ring can't reach.
Descriptors
Pick words, not families — axis words rank by nearness, the rest filter outright.
Families, subfamily boundaries and descriptor vocabulary derive from The Osmo Scent Taxonomy v1.2 by Osmo Labs, PBC, used under ODC-ODbL 1.0. The 10 axes, the scores, the seams and the bridges are ours.