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How to use fragrance in a sentence

39 example sentences · noun, verb

Fragrance means a pleasant smell or odour. Example: “Faced with a mind-boggling selection of special-purpose shampoos, he gave up and simply purchased something inexpensive with a pleasant fragrance.”

Examples of fragrance by meaning

nounA pleasant smell or odour.

  • You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag!2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better, Plum, →ISBN, page 192

nounA perfume.

  • Today, sales of women's fragrances are double those of men's, and 80 percent of all men's after-shaves and colognes are in fact bought by women, as gifts.1987 October, Timothy Kalich, “Marketing: What's in a Smell?”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN

More sentences with fragrance

  • Faced with a mind-boggling selection of special-purpose shampoos, he gave up and simply purchased something inexpensive with a pleasant fragrance.From the entry mind-boggling
  • The chewing gum had a fruitlike fragrance.From the entry fruitlike
  • Once, Marikit smelled the enchanting fragrance of tinola from an open window.2022, Caris Avendaño Cruz, “The Impossible Bottle”, in Marikit and the Ocean of Stars, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for…. From the entry tinola
  • Cassolette was also a reference to the natural fragrance of a woman.2015, Peter Golden, Wherever There Is Light: A Novel, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 234. From the entry cassolette
  • Fragrances can mutate; seizure and ricing are more common; and the soap batter traces rapidly.2012, Alicia Grosso, The Everything Soapmaking Book, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry ricing
  • Drakkar Noir, however, was not the kind of fragrance you would want to douse yourself with.2011 November 3, Ta-Nehisi Coates, quoting shamu1 (Il Mondo di Odore), “Marketing to the Maxim Set, Cont.”, in The Atlantic, archived from…. From the entry fougère
  • She finally spied some golden ones with the fragrance of champagne — smooth round Antonovkas.2003, David Shraer-Petrov, Jonah and Sarah: Jewish Stories of Russia and America, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry Antonovka
  • The vanillalike fragrance of the mature ponderosa pines fills the air.1998, Lisa Gollin Evans, An Outdoor Family Guide to Rocky Mountain National Park, The Mountaineers Books, →ISBN, page 155. From the entry vanillalike
  • Lanchère Blue Rose Bath Crystals dissolve quickly and at the same time release their fragrance.1927 September 15, “For the bath”, in Vogue, Greenwich, Conn.: The Condé Nast Publications, Inc., page 189. From the entry bathware
  • Enter the scentfluencers, a group of fragrance enthusiasts who are demystifying the, frankly often very wafty, world of scent.2023 August 6, Verity Clark, “Would you wear a cauliflower-based perfume?”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry skinfluencer
  • SKIN SCENT¶ A fragrance with low projection.2021, Sarah McCartney, Samantha Scriven, The Perfume Companion […] , Frances Lincoln, →ISBN, page 283. From the entry projection
  • Oriental fragrances often incorporate an accord referred to as amber.2010, Daphna Havkin-Frenkel, Faith C. Belanger, Handbook of Vanilla Science and Technology, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN. From the entry accord
  • "Just got the imaging for my new fragrance Radiance and thought I'd share it with all my tweethearts," she wrote.2010 August 8, “No new Britney music in pipeline”, in Daily Mirror. From the entry tweetheart
  • Synthetic fragrances can contain a laundry list of chemicals — hormone disrupters, petroleum-derived unpronounceables, asthma triggers and on and on.2009 March 13, “Natural Selection”, in New York Times. From the entry unpronounceable
  • Baby fragrance: the faint parmesany whiff of vomit.2009, Lance Olsen, Head in Flames, Chiasmus Press, →ISBN, page 128. From the entry parmesany
  • A rotten eggs, decaying matter and piquant, outhousey, je ne sais quois fragrance radiated off her in noxious waves.2006, Terry Griggs, Invisible Ink, Vancouver, B.C.: Raincoast Books, →ISBN, page 89. From the entry outhousey
  • The low whirr of the blow-driers carried with it the heavy scent of hair-spray and the delicate fragrance of cosmetics.1987, Helena Shaw, A Deeper Quest, London: Robert Hale, →ISBN, page 46. From the entry blow-drier
  • A fragrance drifts by, and a memory is evoked.1982 March 18, Eric J. Cassel[l], “The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 306…. From the entry roller skate
  • Bin sniffed curiously, wondering where the fragrance came from.1967, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Happiness; selected short stories. From the entry twilighty
  • There is the fragrance of Springtime in his lines.1945, Books Abroad 1945: Volume 19, Issue 2, University of Oklahoma, pages 118-119. From the entry ultradimensional
  • Up rises that sweet and tantalizing fragrance—the hot, spicy aroma of Heinz baked beans—slowly browned in heat flooded ovens.1928 March, Ladies’ Home Journal, volume XLV, number 3, Philadelphia, Pa.: The Curtis Publishing Company, page 55. From the entry tomato-saucy
  • Its gay gambooge-coloured flowers, enveloped in an elusive fragrance, are as charming as anything in the Suffructicosa section.1922 December 2, [Francis] Kingdon Ward, “Mr. Kingdon Ward’s Seventh Expedition in Asia. No. III. To Lichiang.”, in The Gardeners’…. From the entry gamboge
  • The sun, treading the earth like a vintager, drew from it heady fragrances, crushed out of it new colours.1913, Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country. From the entry vintager
  • A thousand random fragrances of morn Float from lush solitudes and leafy dells, While summer's sunwings rest on lake and tree.1910, William Dowsing, Sheffield Vignettes: A Series of Sonnets, page 3. From the entry sunwing
  • For the first time, the multimedia artist and photographer has harnessed the power of fragrance to add a new sensory layer to her work.2025 March 27, Ariana Marsh, “Photographer Shaniqwa Jarvis Wants to Show Us We’re More Similar Than Different”, in Harper's Bazaar…. From the entry Shaniqwa
  • Chris Pine, the subject of superfan "Pine Nut" adoration worldwide, has been named the new face of Giorgio Armani Code fragrance for men.2014 February 12, Ellie Krupnick, “Chris Pine Gets The Brooding Cologne Ads His Face Deserves”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on…. From the entry pine nut
  • The fragrance of the white carpet of flowers under the flowering sewali shrub spoke of its origin and reminded her of the old woman Kali.2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee. From the entry sewali
  • He also recommended the new calycanthus hybrids, particularly Hartlage Wine, a deep burgundy without much fragrance, and Venus, a magnolia-like flower with a sweet scent.2009 February 5, Anne Raver, “New This Year: The Tried and True”, in New York Times. From the entry calycanthus
  • And though we're not implying anything, scented candles and fragrance sticks can defunkify a flat and add alluring aroma to your efforts to cherchez l'amour.2006 March, “Add Class To Your Cave”, in Men's Health, page 36. From the entry defunkify
  • Upon their heads were strapped vast helmet-like torches of glittering metal, from which the fragrance of obscure balsams spread in fumous spirals.1927, H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. From the entry fumous
  • Across this scene wafted the pungent fragrance of chop suey, dim sims and other delicacies in course of preparation for the funeral feast.1926 December 16, The Telegraph, Brisbane, page 20, column 7. From the entry chop suey
  • He would give much to be in a chair by one of those hearths and in the thick of that blowsy fragrance.1921, John Buchan, chapter 11, in The Path of the King, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry blowsy
  • Although some ferns have a light fragrance, the scent of a fougère perfume is an imaginary concept created by the perfumer using the unique scent of coumarin.2022, Elise Vernon Pearlstine, Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 217. From the entry fougère
  • Awash in its fragrance, like a kandhuli fish rippling in a pond and making liquid motifs of rings and bangles, her head grew giddier and her heart beat faster.2015, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Ranjita Biswas, Written in Tears, Harper Perennial, page 1. From the entry kandhuli
  • The smell of the damp eucalypt palings that clad the walls exhaling their aromatic resin into the house, mingling with the fragrance of the myrtle burning in the fireplace.1997, Richard Flanagan, chapter 6, in The Sound of One Hand Clapping, New York: Grove Press, published 2014. From the entry paling
  • Its fragrance and sweetness and healing be poured With tones and sweet touch and with heart prompted token, In hers who all sweetness in thine has instored.1908, David Chalmers Nimmo, “The Anniversary”, in Songs, page 111. From the entry instore
  • Find everything from fragrance notes to hints about which decanters — home rebottlers who have been controversially banned from eBay — can still slip you some of the good stuff.2008 March 16, Virginia Heffernan, “Good Vibrations”, in New York Times. From the entry rebottler

Meaning of fragrance

  1. noun A pleasant smell or odour.
  2. noun A perfume.
  3. verb To apply a fragrance to; to perfume.

Full definition of fragrance

Questions about fragrance in a sentence

How do you use fragrance in a sentence?
Fragrance is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Faced with a mind-boggling selection of special-purpose shampoos, he gave up and simply purchased something inexpensive with a pleasant fragrance.”
What is a short sentence with fragrance?
“SKIN SCENT¶ A fragrance with low projection.”
What does fragrance mean?
Fragrance means a pleasant smell or odour.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fragrance (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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