as in fragrant
having a pleasant smell
a bowl of scented petals used to perfume a room
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as in sensed
to have a vague awareness of
he scented danger
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Recent Examples of scented
Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2025
Start by gathering a soap base (either goats milk or shea butter works), yellow and red soap colorant, fall-scented fragrance oil, silicone soap mold, measuring cups, and 99% isopropyl alcohol in a spray bottle.
—Ellen Sturm Niz, Parents, 8 Oct. 2025
Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 25 Aug. 2025
As the temperature surged to two hundred degrees, Solórzano slammed a snowball scented with black pepper and juniper tar onto the rocks, filling the room with a gunpowdery musk, and waved furiously, darting up and down the sauna stairs, tossing his towel in an elegant plume of white.
—Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
Unlike competitors, the brand uses 15–18% fragrance oils (over three times the amount found in typical scented candles).
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2025
Start by gathering a soap base (either goats milk or shea butter works), yellow and red soap colorant, fall-scented fragrance oil, silicone soap mold, measuring cups, and 99% isopropyl alcohol in a spray bottle.
—Ellen Sturm Niz, Parents, 8 Oct. 2025
Verb
The lemon- and peppermint-scented scrub is infused with moisturizing ingredients, including coconut oil, sunflower seed oil, and shea butter, among others, and works especially well when followed by the brand’s Foot Balm.
—Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 25 Aug. 2025
As the temperature surged to two hundred degrees, Solórzano slammed a snowball scented with black pepper and juniper tar onto the rocks, filling the room with a gunpowdery musk, and waved furiously, darting up and down the sauna stairs, tossing his towel in an elegant plume of white.
—Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scented
Adjective
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There were black burlat cherries, plump apricots, a basket of fragrant strawberries.—
Danielle Postel-Vinay,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
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Your family or guests will enjoy the fragrant spices, nutty flavor and slightly chewy texture of the sweet treat, but the purple color, which is similar to that of blueberries, will be the real conversation starter.—
Bethany Thayer,
Freep.com,
25 Oct. 2025
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Dependable men in hats riding slow commuter trains, their mindscapes perfumed with thoughts of stocks, bonds, lawn care.—
Daniel Kolitz,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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Treatments are designed to be sensorial and effective without feeling heavy or overly perfumed.—
Conçetta Ciarlo,
Vogue,
8 Oct. 2025
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The Raiders sniffed out a screen before a pop-pass gave him a lane for his first touchdown in 392 days.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
19 Oct. 2025
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San Marcos tried a flea flicker on its last-gasp play, but it was sniffed out by the Carlsbad defense.—
John Maffei,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 Oct. 2025
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Their daughter, Darlene Tenes, sensed her father was hanging on trying to make it to the anniversary.—
Sal Pizarro,
Mercury News,
18 Oct. 2025
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Had his dad not sensed something and dialed 911, Andrew, a star baseball player turned gambling addict in college, would have quietly checked out at age 33, leaving his twin infant sons, his guilt-crippled parents, and many thousands of dollars in gambling debts behind.—
Paul Solotaroff,
Rolling Stone,
12 Oct. 2025
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As for the drinks, a modest wine list and cocktails like the Old Coast Fashioned (bourbon, demerara syrup, aromatic bitters, orange peel) are on the menu.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
24 Oct. 2025
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The tiny black specks of vanilla pack a surprisingly aromatic punch.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
22 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The cafeteria smelled the same.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
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The sergeant noted at least 12 bruises alone were found on the boy from the forehead down to the jaw on both sides of Campbell's face and that the child smelled overwhelmingly like urine.—
Adrienne Davis,
jsonline.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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There’s even a design echo between the nomadic Mongolian ger — the traditional felt tent sometimes referred to as yurts — and the Martian dome prototypes being developed by the MARS-V engineering team.—
Rosanna Philpott,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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The Search Begins Our search began with what felt like hunting for a needle in a haystack.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
24 Oct. 2025
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Its use was banned in many countries around the turn of the millennium amid concerns that the fibers, when airborne, could result in potentially fatal lung diseases if inhaled.—
Jack Beresford,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Oct. 2025
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Previous research has found that TCE, when inhaled or ingested, can easily cross the blood-brain barrier and cause damage to neurons.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Scented.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scented. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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