smell
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- n the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form
she loved the smell of roses - n any property detected by the olfactory system
- n the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
it had the smell of treason - n the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents
- n the act of perceiving the odor of something
- v inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense
- v emit an odor
The soup smells good - v smell bad
He rarely washes, and he smells - v have an element suggestive (of something)
this passage smells of plagiarism - v become aware of not through the senses but instinctively
i smell trouble
smell out corruption
- At the New York City headquarters of International Flavors and Fragrances (IFF), master perfumers experiment with novel smell combinations in the largest fine fragrance perfumery .
- To capture the fragrance of a flower without having to kill it, IFF uses a kind of "smell camera" that detects and absorbs the particles that surround a plant to record its scent.
- Smell-O-Vision: The Scent of a Movie A history of smell in the movies Retro Future The concept of Retro Future is based on a simple question: What happened to all that futuristic .