fragrance

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A 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! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.

2. 2
   noun

   A 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.

3. 3
   noun

   a pleasingly sweet olfactory property

4. 4
   noun

   a distinctive odor that is pleasant

5. 5
   verb

   To apply a fragrance to; to perfume.

Etymology

Borrowed from French fragrance, from Middle French fragrance, from Old French fraglance, from Late Latin frāgrantia. See fragrant.