sweet-scented

Example Sentences

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The air there was sweet, scented with the perennial perfume of purple Jacaranda blooms.

From New York Times • Jun. 18, 2020

Natural vanilla extract comes in potent, sweet scented brown liquor.

From BBC • May 6, 2018

It's like Omar Khayyam—   "'Yet ah, that Spring should vanish with the rose   That youth's sweet scented manuscript should close—' and my youth's going to close without the sweet scent of the rose."

From Lydia of the Pines by Morrow, Honoré

Hop-Mauls, are Flowers growing upon great Trees, which bear nothing else, they are rarely sweet scented; this is the chief Flower the young people use; and is of greatest value among them.

From An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape by Knox, Robert

So she gathered some wild roses and some sweet scented violets and some witch hazel.

From In Story-land by Harrison, Elizabeth