overscenting

Verb

overscent (third-person singular simple present overscents, present participle overscenting, simple past and past participle overscented)

1. (transitive) To give too much scent to (something or someone); to scent excessively.
   • He figured the big bear was coming in downwind and picking up his scent. “So I moved the bait station about 200 yards to a better location. Most bear hunters won’t make so many changes because they’re scared of overscenting the area. But I knew I had to make changes to kill that bear. […] ”1989, Dan Bertalan, Traditional Bowyers of America, East Lansing, MI: Envisage Unlimited, Chapter 10, p. 158
2. (intransitive, reflexive) To apply too much scent to oneself.
   • It is never good taste to overscent one’s-self, but a person who uses no kind of artificial perfume at all, neither in soap nor in pomade, nor yet in the linen, is not always the most agreeable.1873, “Perfumes”, in Every Saturday, Series 3, Volume 3, No. 20, 17 May, 1873, p. 555
3. To scent so as to cover or conceal the original odour.
   • having the stinch of his railing tongue, over-sented with the fragrant ointment of this Prince’s memory1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI), page 371

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