scent
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Dogs normally interpret people using many signals at once, including facial expressions, body language, tone of voice, and scent.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
An illustration shows middle C having the scent of a rose; the C two octaves higher, jasmine; in the rumbly bass, clove and vanilla.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
I wanted to resemble the relaxed browsers who paused over a melon because its scent had summoned them.
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2026
Using Indigenous ecological knowledge – a plant's colour and scent, for example, or the shade cover of trees - he can verify information in the satellite images from Yebra's team.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
More than once, I’d opened the storm cellar to the beckon of neon and the scent of buffalo stew.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Nadira Goffe argues that watching the film in 4DX—which features, among other things, scents, moving chairs, and sprays of water—is the superior way to experience the epic adventure.
From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026
Nearly a year later it introduced a ’90s edition, with scents including “VHS rental ‘n chill” and “mall food court.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
The New York-based business makes a variety of products, ranging from scents for perfumes to ingredients used in food that can help digestion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Despite being marketed as an eau de parfum for men, the fragrance’s notes leaned more toward typically unisex scents.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
The air itself is ideal, clear and crisp and cool, permeated with scents and sounds that entice and enchant one patron after another.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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They reminisce about the brown bread: those sweet, dark little wheat loaves scented with honey, molasses, cocoa powder and espresso.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
“We can never go back to the old days where the air was clean and pure and sweet and scented with orange blossoms.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026
There was nothing artificial about the atmosphere as every Macclesfield fan scented another shock in the cold night air.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026
A big get at the time was putting highly scented Yankee Candles on shelves for the first time in 2017.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026
From the bathroom across the way, through its half-open door, drifted a humid scented air and a hollow dripping sound.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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The Japanese accomplish subtle scenting with nioi-bukuro, breathable sachets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 14, 2026
It's framed with trees laden with citrus fruits and row after row of bushy herbs, the rosemary and sage scenting the air.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2023
Signs that your feline friend is bonded to you include scenting by rubbing their head on you, showing their belly, blinking and letting you get close.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 21, 2022
In the summer, the hardliners struck, scenting weakness in a man now abandoned by many liberal allies.
From Reuters ● Aug. 30, 2022
The adults were looking around, and then the woman put the monkey down, and it began to cast this way and that on the grass as if it were scenting or looking for footprints.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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