FRAGRANCE


Meaning of FRAGRANCE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

new

Flaunt the new fragrances: Feminite de Bois by Shiseido is alluringly woody.

Spice up your life with a new fragrance that is exotic and thoroughly seductive.

sweet

This, too, holds its sweet fragrance until the evening arrives.

In more general terms, it seems to have an intense, warm, distinctively sweet fragrance .

It has a warm, spicy, sweet fragrance with an overtone of licorice and cloves.

■ VERB

smell

He smelled the bitter fragrance of ablated chromium steel.

He could smell the fragrance of her.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Would you like to try White Diamonds, the new fragrance from Elizabeth Taylor?

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Corbett could smell the heavy, thick fragrance of those mouth-watering dishes he had seen being prepared in the kitchen.

Leaves have a citrus fragrance and glycerine beautifully, turning the colour of chamois leather.

Mock orange and lilacs bloomed close to the house, I remember the fragrance .

Synthetic products and various intermediates are also available for the flavour and fragrance market.

The fragrance became even sweeter, pervading the church and immediate neighborhood.

The acid fragrance upsets their delicate nasal passages and they avoid anything smeared in it for long periods of time.

The Oxford was wearing its signature fragrance of floor wax, lemon oil, old wood, and worn leather.

When the winter wind whistled through the bare branches, the fragrance of this spicy cake was comforting.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.