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View synonyms for fragrance

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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of fragrance1

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

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Synonym Study

See perfume.

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Example Sentences

L'Etoile is the country's largest fragrance chain with over 750 stores.

The flowers and grass exhaled a fragrance which troubled me.

Musmanno ended the interview by asking Clinton what scent he wears (it was, after all, a Fragrance Foundation event).

The fragrance concept is about female empowerment and finding the inner strength that makes women so beautiful.

The fragrance, which will be available in February, is described as an "intoxicating, addictive luminous floral."

The grass had a delightful fragrance, like new-mown hay, and was neatly wound around the tunnel, like the inside of a bird's-nest.

Not a zephyr ruffled the leaf of a rose, and a soft breathing fragrance bathed his reposing senses.

Vases of flowers diffused their fragrance and expanded their beauty where flowers were never seen to bloom before.

The taller buried her face for a moment in the red Jaqueminots and drank in their fragrance.

I frequently used to visit the plantations of nutmegs and cloves, and refresh myself with their balsamic fragrance.

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