smells
Example Sentences
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This new wordmark smells like Le Labo’s Santal 33.
From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026
She romantically contends that street food is an “impulse buy – you pass by it, and it smells good, so you buy it to eat quickly.”
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Septimus Piesse, a 19th-century chemist, translated sounds into smells, proclaiming an “octave of odors,” the authors explain, “with correspondences between notes and scents providing the basis for harmonious olfactory combinations.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
When the department polled residents about the smells generated by the fire-devastated facility, a majority reported “frequent, strong and persistent odors.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The steam wisping off it smells so good I almost take a bite standing there.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
