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Mr. Tom Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary

Fragrance with coffee

Hi

Would it be natural to use the word fragrance with coffee or tea?

The little apartment was filled with the fragrance of coffee.

Here are the results from frazeit.com and N-grams.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=fragrance+of+coffee%2C+aroma+of+coffee&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cfragrance%20of%20coffee%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Caroma%20of%20coffee%3B%2Cc0

http://fraze.it/n_search.jsp?q=fragrance+of+coffee&l=0

Thanks,

Tom

  

Top answer

My inclination is 'aroma' is more common. The translation into French is 'parfum' and Italian is 'fragranza'. 'Smell' suggests no delight in its recognition as coffee.

— Wilpeter

  • My inclination is 'aroma' is more common.
  • The translation into French is 'parfum' and Italian is 'fragranza'.
  • 'Smell' suggests no delight in its recognition as coffee.
  • 'odour' suggests dislike.
  • 'perfume' to me indicates sweet and pleasant.
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My inclination is 'aroma' is more common.

The translation into French is 'parfum' and Italian is 'fragranza'. 'Smell' suggests no delight in its recognition as coffee. 'odour' suggests dislike. 'perfume' to me indicates sweet and pleasant. 'fragrant' indicates pollen and flowers.

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