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scent

noun as in smell, aroma

verb as in detect, smell

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This Portland company offers a variety of scents, but get the vanilla sugar if you want to smell like a super-refreshed cupcake.

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The finding, described August 12 in Nature, could inform new ways of controlling or preventing locust swarms, potentially by attracting the insects with their own scents.

If we can understand how the brain processes individual scents as electrical information, it might be possible to reverse-engineer the smell of bubbling lasagna and deliver it straight to your brain.

After 10 minutes, the researchers gave each bee the same lemony scent followed by sugar water.

They are snaking back and forth in search of the scent that will get them their ball.

Selling off the extras, I saw my neighbor marvel at the scent and murmur that he wished he could afford one.

He even claims that hen partridges conceive just by smelling the scent of males.

This is not the boisterous version of Pacino, the one we saw as Tony Montana in Scarface or as Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman.

A local perfume maker even produced a special scent for men and women named after the rocket, M75.

Behind the counter is the pit, perfuming the room (and your clothes) with the swirling, come-hither scent of beef and smoke.

But such refuge, he knew, could avail him nothing if the bear should scent him out and search for him.

He did not know what the scent was, but it smelled rich and artificial, and he disliked to associate it with his new friend.

Her expression was still petrified, except that she might have had the scent of blood in her slightly dilating nostrils.

From the garden there rose to her nostrils the delicate scent of some hidden flower that gave its best gift to the darkness.

I might have put him on a false scent, just as cleverly and unsuspiciously as I dare say he could put me; but I've not done it.

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On this page you'll find 60 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to scent, such as: aura, bouquet, essence, odor, perfume, and spice.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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