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[sent] / sɛnt /




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The Marriott chain sells candles and diffusers with “the signature scent of your favorite hotels,” including subsidiary brands Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis, Westin, Sheraton and Courtyard.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

If a scent is constantly evolving, how can another animal still determine who originally left it?

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

On better days, she strolled up to it, even hugging its jagged trunk and inhaling the earthy scent to lift her spirits.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Spacious, chilly and cloaked in an earthy scent, they hold hundreds of oak barrels and several towering steel tanks full of maturing wine.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

Then came the thing Gingersnipes was talking about—the sharp, metallic scent of skin.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

Hotel industry veterans note that if guests call in advance, many hotels are able to prepare guest rooms without artificial scents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Yet another responded that “I’m very sensitive to scents and never noticed this.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

That pattern suggests that cats may retain long-term memories of particular urine scents.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

Septimus Piesse, a 19th-century chemist, translated sounds into smells, proclaiming an “octave of odors,” the authors explain, “with correspondences between notes and scents providing the basis for harmonious olfactory combinations.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

I knew he could smell the food—my mother had been wafting scents toward the front door since she’d started cooking this morning.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

To examine what happens under realistic conditions, the researchers tested scented conventional liquid products as well as botanical-containing disinfectant sprays and wipes inside a model home on Purdue's campus.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

However, listing images of the property show that it is now completely empty—with not a single Juicy Couture sweatsuit or scented candle in sight, suggesting that Madison has vacated the home completely.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

Here, they get cooked with butter, brown sugar, orange zest and salt until glossy and jammy, then folded into a simple sour cream cake scented generously with cardamom.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

The executive aims to modernize the Columbus, Ohio-based retailer of fragrances, scented candles, body creams and decorative soaps through an expanded digital presence, refreshed product mix and more-creative marketing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

When she buys me a scented soap from Walgreens.

From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The Japanese accomplish subtle scenting with nioi-bukuro, breathable sachets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026

It's framed with trees laden with citrus fruits and row after row of bushy herbs, the rosemary and sage scenting the air.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2023

Signs that your feline friend is bonded to you include scenting by rubbing their head on you, showing their belly, blinking and letting you get close.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 21, 2022

In the summer, the hardliners struck, scenting weakness in a man now abandoned by many liberal allies.

From Reuters ● Aug. 30, 2022

He tried for them in all directions, but his nose was useless, the fine scenting nerves numbed by ash and soot.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker




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