Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The quality of having a pleasant odor.
  • noun A sweet or pleasant odor; a scent.
  • noun A substance, such as a perfume or cologne, designed to emit a pleasant odor.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being fragrant; that quality of bodies which affects the olfactory nerves with an agreeable sensation; sweetness of smell; pleasing scent; grateful odor.
  • noun Synonyms Perfume, Aroma, etc. (see smell, n.); redolence, incense, balminess.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being fragrant; sweetness of smell; a sweet smell; a pleasing odor; perfume.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A pleasant smell or odour.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a distinctive odor that is pleasant
  • noun a pleasingly sweet olfactory property

Etymologies

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Latin fragrantia. See fragrant.

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  • Ahh, in fragrance is France! FRAgraNCE

    November 18, 2009

  • Good one!

    November 18, 2009

  • There's also gran, probably for all those decorative bottles of bath goo she gets for her birthday and never ends up using.

    November 18, 2009

  • Fragrance v. scent. Alcohol-based v. oil-based. (via NPR's Says You

    December 19, 2010

  • "In contrast, a group of some fifteen Khotanese-language documents preserved in cave 17 offer a wealth of detail about one mission ... possibly in the mid-tenth century. ...

    "The princes and their entourage set off with some 800 pounds (360 kg) of jade. In addition, they carried some leather goods, most likely saddles, harnesses, or other horse tack. Horses and jade were the most common tribute items from Khotan, and other recorded gifts include camels, falcons, yak tails, textiles, furs, medicines, minerals, herbs, some types of fragrances, amber, and coral. As was fitting in the subsistence economy of the time, rulers also presented slaves to one another."

    --Valerie Hansen, The Silk Road: A New History (Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2012), 222, 224

    January 4, 2017

  • Fun note on apothecary.

    November 28, 2017