Pleasing to the sense of smell; having a pleasant smell or odour; fragrant. Also said of the smell or odour.

Sweet to the smell or taste; sweet-smelling, fragrant.

Having the fragrant smell, and warm, slightly pungent, taste, of spice; yielding aroma; spicy, fragrant, sweet-smelling.

Of an odour: pleasant, fragrant. Of a fruit, plant, etc.: sweet-smelling, aromatic. Obsolete.

Having a pleasant smell; fragrant.

Smelling sweet; sweet-scented.

Of food, perfumes, etc.: Sweet and highly pleasant to the taste or smell.

Having a pleasant smell; fragrant. Now somewhat rare.

= redolent, adj. 1.

Originally: having or diffusing a pleasant smell, aroma, or scent; sweet-smelling, fragrant. In later use chiefly: strong smelling, pungent.

Originally and chiefly: that has a pleasant smell; scented, fragrant; odoriferous.

= fragrant, adj. Obsolete.

Of a smell: pleasant, sweet, fragrant; (in later use also) strong, pungent.

Having a pleasant flavour or odour.

= aromatic, adj.

spec. With reference to the effect on the five senses. Having an odour that not pungent, acrid, or strong; designating such an odour.

Having sweet breath.

Delicately and deliciously fragrant.

Of or resembling ambrosia (ambrosia, n. 1); exceptionally fragrant or delicious.

In senses of the verb; also, perfumed, fragrant.

Emitting a sweet or pleasant odour, sweet-smelling.

Impregnated with perfume; wearing perfume; scented with a (usually pleasant) odour.

That has or gives out a scent or odour. Frequently with distinguishing word.

Impregnated or imbued with a (usually pleasant) scent or smell; perfumed. Also figurative and in extended use.

spec. Perfumed, scented. See also sweet-bag n., sweet-ball n., sweet-powder n. at compounds 1a, sweet-water, n. 2a. Obsolete.

= aromatized, adj.

= aromatic, adj.

Of or belonging to the ancient population of Yemen in Arabia. In poetic use, often with allusion to the ancient renown of the spices brought from…

Of a scent or odour: exceptionally sweet or delightful. Also: delightfully fragrant or perfumed.

Of an odour: full of fragrance; deep, mellow.

Having a natural perfume; fragrant; having a (usually pleasant) smell.

Having a sweet-scent; sweet-smelling, fragrant.

That has been perfumed again.

Filled, flavoured, or impregnated with nectar (literally or figuratively); deliciously sweet or fragrant.

Fragrant, aromatic; spice-laden.

That emits odorous fumes, aromatic.

Abundantly scented; exuding a strong or pleasant smell.

Balmy, deliciously fragrant.

Having or emitting a perfume; fragrant, perfumed.

Sweet-smelling, fragrant; odoriferous.

Fragrant.

Sweet-smelling, sweet-scented.

Rendered aromatic or fragrant; spiced.

Perfumed with ‘essences’, scented.

Balsam-like in aromatic fragrance, balmy.

Full of flavour; pleasing to the taste and smell, savoury; ‘fragrant, odorous’ (Johnson).

Having the delicate aromatic fragrance of balsam; deliciously fragrant, balmy.

Having a pleasant smell; fragrant. Also (and in earliest use) figurative.

Having or exuding a scent; perfumed, aromatic; (also) odorous; smelly.

That breathes (in various senses of breathe, v.); esp. respiring; living.

Having the fragrance of spice; sweet-scented, aromatic. Of flowers.

Bearing flavour; fragrant.

Of or pertaining to, concerned with, or involving, aroma or aromas.

Aromatic, fragrant; used in Chemistry in the name euodic aldehyde (see quot.).

Fragrant. rare.