smell

I Can Taste It aims to help three to six-year-olds build confidence in trying different foods through sight, smell, touch, sound and taste.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Participants rated its smell as more pleasant than either dark chocolate or water, but the aroma did not significantly change their hunger or appetite.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

We’ve all stood under a streetlight; we all know the smell of wine and cheap perfume.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Cabs can now smell like Axe body spray, a Dunkin’ latte or Downy fabric softener.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

The air had a heaviness to it, making the smell of fresh-mown grass almost overpowering, and a quick glance at the sky showed an approaching storm.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

And the “Ocean Breeze” vent clip by Febreze that smells nothing like the ocean to her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Brentford will play on the counter-attack here and Bournemouth will have a go at them, so this smells like a draw to me.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Instead of being laid out spatially, its wiring works more like a bar code, with distributed patterns of activity representing particular smells or complex memories.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

This new wordmark smells like Le Labo’s Santal 33.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

The wind whipped off the water and almost took my breath away as it brought with it the salty smells of the sea.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

The place supposedly smelled of cheddar for weeks afterward.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

The haze can be smelled even indoors in the city of about 700,000 people.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

"The lab smelled like a fish market," she says.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

“It smelled like a zoo here for three days,” Peter said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

The jerricans smelled of petrol, and I saw packs of batteries, bottles of oil, and cans of tomato purée in one box.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

As the state has relied heavily on its water, native fish such as Chinook salmon, steelhead trout and longfin smelt have declined.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

With the Springboks dominating in the basics, the crowd in Cape Town smelt blood as the lead stretched to 17-7.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

He and other environmental advocates say the voluntary deals struck by major water agencies would be disastrous for threatened and endangered fish, including salmon, steelhead, green sturgeon, longfin smelt and Delta smelt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

Look no further than GameStop’s $56 billion bid for eBay, which is the equivalent of a smelt swallowing a whale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

I smelt a mingling of Pablum and sour milk and salt-cod-stinky diapers and felt sorrowful and tender.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

Compared with both the water control and milk chocolate conditions, smelling dark chocolate was consistently associated with lower hunger, less desire and intention to eat, and greater feelings of fullness before exercise.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

This version leans hard into fresh corn, still in its cool green husks and already smelling sweet before you cut it from the cob.

From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026

Especially during high-traffic times, after waiting in line, you’d pick up a phone still warm from the grip of the inmate who’d just been using it, the receiver still smelling like his breath.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

Kyle Shanahan must believe the olfactory exhilaration of smelling salts enhances his coaching ability.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Each time, she seemed more substantial—her hair pulled back with “a single, white rose,” her perfume smelling of “freshly gathered violets.”

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock