fragrance

[ frey-gruhns ]

noun

1. the quality of being fragrant; a sweet or pleasing scent.
2. perfume, cologne, toilet water, or the like.

fragrance

/ ˈfreɪɡrəns /

noun

1. a pleasant or sweet odour; scent; perfume
2. the state of being fragrant

Word History and Origins

Origin of fragrance¹

First recorded in 1660–70; from French, from Late Latin frāgrantia. See fragrant, -ance

Synonym Study

See perfume.

Example Sentences

Customize your leather goods and fragrance bottles with hot stamping and engraving services on-site too.

From Los Angeles Times

He has many things on his mind — he’s currently creating his own personal fragrance for men, as well as designing a variation of the South American folk string instrument known as ronroco — but the “Dracula” opening is fast approaching.

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A bonus was a yard full of fragrance and endangered monarch butterflies.

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There are a few other fruit trees on the property, but mostly it’s a riot of native plants with enough variety that even in the summer, when many California native plants go dormant, the garden is full of fragrance and color — bright purple wands of woolly blue curls that smell as sweet as bubble gum; sticky yellow and red monkeyflowers, tall mallows with large flowers in orange and lavender, pinkish white bouquets on the narrow milkweed and sunflowers and fuchsias nearly ready to bloom.

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As for the flower’s stench, uh, “fragrance,” some people equate it to rotting meat or stinky gym socks, but it seems to change depending on the sniffer, said Keisha Raines, the Huntington’s communications associate.

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