scent 
scent (sent)
transitive verb
- to smell; perceive by the olfactory sense
- to get a hint or inkling of; suspect to scent trouble
- to fill with an odor; give fragrance to; perfume
Etymology: ME senten < OFr sentir < L sentire, to feel: see send
intransitive verb
to hunt by the sense of smell
noun
- a smell; odor
- the sense of smell
- a manufactured fluid preparation used to give fragrance; perfume
- an odor left by an animal, by which it is tracked in hunting
- a track followed in hunting
- any clue by which something is followed or detected
- an intuitive capacity for discovering or detecting a scent for news
Object
- candle: The majority of scented jar candles will last anywhere from 50 to 120 hours.
- geranium: Suitable herbs for use this way include; many of the mints and scented geraniums.
- flower: Clusters of pink, sweetly scented flowers burst out along the naked stems from November to March - whatever the weather!
Converse of object
- waft: Lots more Eating Opportunities this time, wafting appetizing scents among the sawdust.
- intoxicate: A dramatic and intoxicating scent that will lift your day.
- inhale: Breathe deeply and inhale the scents of citrus and olive trees in the tranquil landscaped garden surrounding this beautifully appointed luxury villa.
Adjective modifier
- heady: The heady scent of betrayal was in the air.
- musky: His breath was hot enough to overule the chill mountain breeze and the musky stallion scent of him I drank in like wine.
- feminine: Burberry Brit is the new classic, fresh and feminine scent by Burberry and it epitomizes modern day British style.
- fruity: Mulberry: A rich, sweet and fruity scent.
- floral: Lilac: It is a magnificent light floral scent fresh from an English garden.
- spicy: Spice plantations of cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla punctuate the landscape and tinge the atmosphere with a pleasant spicy scent.
Modifies a noun
- hound: Most scent hounds were used in packs - making a loud, deep baying noise alerting hunters to their location.
- gland: The male has a thin black streak of sexual scent glands.
Preposition: of
- musk: The changed breath in the mouth of the faster is more fragrant to Allah than the scent of musk.
- jasmine: The night uses rich dark foliage shot with the silver of stars and white of moonlight; the scent of jasmine fills the air.
- lavender: Can you smell the flowers, imagine the scent of lavender, or honeysuckle?
- honeysuckle: He savored the distant scents of honeysuckle, cooking and wine.
- blossom: Origins An Italian princess had a great passion for the scent of this orange blossom.
Preposition: with
- lavender: It's even scented with lavender to help you have a peaceful sleep.
Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem testa diu. The first scent you pour in a jar lasts for years.
Children are dumb to say how hot the day is, How hot the scent is of the summer rose.
and there grows in the mind a scent, it may be, of locust blossoms whose perfume is itself a wind moving to lead the mind away.
And the smell of the library was always the sameöthe musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup'.
The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.
On dirait que l'a" me des justes donne, comme les fleurs, plus de parfums vers le soir. It seems that the soul of the just gives off, like flowers, a stronger scent towards evening.
And the jessamine faint, and the sweet tuberose, The sweetest flower for scent that blows.
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