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Marold Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
Scent x fragrance
Scent
Fragrance
The vocabularies perceive these nouns as a pleasent smell. Does a native speaker notice any differences or is it possible to interchange the nouns as a synonyms without any real difference in meaning?
Thank you in advance.
Fragrance
The vocabularies perceive these nouns as a pleasent smell. Does a native speaker notice any differences or is it possible to interchange the nouns as a synonyms without any real difference in meaning?
Thank you in advance.
Top answer
A fragrance is much more pleasant than a scent. "Scent" is merely neutral, not used to mean unpleasant all by itself the way "stink" and "stench" are and not the reverse, either. We can speak of the skunk scent that hunters put on or of the scent of flowers.
- A fragrance is much more pleasant than a scent.
- "Scent" is merely neutral, not used to mean unpleasant all by itself the way "stink" and "stench" are and not the reverse, either.
- We can speak of the skunk scent that hunters put on or of the scent of flowers.
- A dog can pick up the scent of an escaped convict but not his fragrance.
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A fragrance is much more pleasant than a scent. "Scent" is merely neutral, not used to mean unpleasant all by itself the way "stink" and "stench" are and not the reverse, either. We can speak of the skunk scent that hunters put on or of the scent of flowers. A dog can pick up the scent of an escaped convict but not his fragrance.
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