Fragrant is usually used to describe things that smell sweet or pleasant, especially flowers and perfume.
Some common synonyms of fragrance are perfume, redolence, and scent. While all these words mean "a sweet or pleasant odor," fragrance suggests the odors of flowers or other growing things.
perfume. noun. literary the pleasant smell of something such as a flower or plant.
Some common synonyms of fragrant are aromatic, odorous, and redolent. While all these words mean "emitting and diffusing scent," fragrant applies to things (such as flowers or spices) with sweet or agreeable odors.
Use adjectives.
Examples are: dewy, bubbly, musky, familiar, pungent, warm, unique, refreshing, light, heavenly, peculiar, pleasant, green, fresh, overpowering, fine, delicate, cool, exotic, smoldering, zesty, aromatic, delicious, suffocating, clean, cheap, gentle, powerful, precious, heavy, rare, tangy, or sweet.
Some common synonyms of aromatic are fragrant, odorous, and redolent. While all these words mean "emitting and diffusing scent," aromatic applies to things emitting pungent often fresh odors.
On this page you'll find 50 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to scentful, such as: aromatic, balmy, dank, effluvious, fetid, and flavorsome.
Adjectives can describe the general, overall quality of the smell. Wispy, rancid, airy, musty, stale, fresh, putrid, faint, light, floral, and acrid are all adjectives that could pertain to smell. Smell origins may take the form of a noun (the smell of leather) or an adjective (a leathery smell).
See examples for synonyms. Opposites. smell , stink , whiff (British, slang), reek , pong (British, informal), miasma , effluvium , offensive smell, niff (British, slang)
But moments before a rain event, an “earthy” smell known as petrichor does permeate the air. People call it musky, fresh—generally pleasant. "Petrichor" is the wonderful word that describes the wonderful scent of the air after a rain shower.
“Un arôme”: an aroma. “Une fragrance”: a sweet or pleasant smell.
It comes from the Latin frāgrantia, from the verb frāgrāre, meaning “to smell sweet.” Fragrance usually refers to a sweet or pleasant smell, especially flowers and perfume.
Etymology. Middle English, from Latin fragrant-, fragrans, from present participle of fragrare to be fragrant.
Some common synonyms of perfume are fragrance, redolence, and scent.
Other names for floral scent include, aroma, fragrance, floral odour or perfume. Flower scent of most flowering plant species encompasses a diversity of VOCs, sometimes up to several hundred different compounds.
The study suggests the human body produces chemical signals, called pheromones. And these scents affect how one person perceives another. Scientists have demonstrated the effects of pheromones in a whole range of animals, including insects, rodents, squid and reptiles.
They found people associated the smells in nature frequently described as "fresh air" or "earthy" with feelings of relaxation, comfort, rejuvenation, and pleasant childhood memories.
Etymology. From Middle English smellen, smillen, smyllen, smullen, from Old English *smyllan, *smiellan (“to smell, emit fumes”), from Proto-West Germanic *smallijan (“to glow, burn, smoulder”), from Proto-Indo-European *smel- (“to burn, smoke, smoulder; tar, pitch”).
Smelt is also used as the past tense of smell in British English.
We have Scotland to thank for it. In Scottish English, 'ming' is an old word for a bad smell, so originally 'minging' meant 'smelly' - as it still can. But of course calling someone smelly is a perfect way of insulting them, and around the year 2000 British teenagers started using it more broadly to mean 'disgusting'.
You can describe how you experience a smell, how it caresses or prickles your nose or how you can move in it—like the softly sweet smell of honey that greeted me and enveloped me when I cycled towards a field of rapeseed a few weeks ago. Lastly, you can narrate the memories and associations that a smell evokes.
Scottish Word: Streek.