[fra.grance] n (1667) 1 a: a sweet or delicate odor (as of fresh flowers, pine trees, or perfume) b: something (as a perfume) compounded to give off a sweet or pleasant odor
2: the quality or state of having a sweet odor syn fragrance, perfume, scent, redolence mean a sweet or pleasant odor. fragrance suggests the odors of flowers or other growing things "the fragrance of pine". perfume may suggest a stronger or heavier odor "the perfume of lilacs". scent is very close to perfume but of wider application because more neutral in connotation "scent-free soaps". redolence implies a mixture of fragrant or pungent odors "the redolence of a forest after a rain".