Meanings
plural fragrances
- countableuncountableA pleasant smell or odour.
1 more example
You could just use ordinary shop-bought kecap manis to marinade the meat, but making your own is easy, has a far more elegant fragrance and is, above all, such a great brag! Flavouring kecap manis is an intensely personal thing, so try this version now and next time cook the sauce down with crushed, split lemongrass and a shredded lime leaf.
2015 October 27, Matt Preston, The Simple Secrets to Cooking Everything Better, Plum, →ISBN, page 192Synonyms: aroma
- countableuncountableA perfume.
Today, sales of women's fragrances are double those of men's, and 80 percent of all men's after-shaves and colognes are in fact bought by women, as gifts.
1987 October, Timothy Kalich, “Marketing: What's in a Smell?”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN
present singular third person fragrances · participle present fragrancing · participle past fragranced · past fragranced
- transitiveTo apply a fragrance to; to perfume.
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA pleasant smell or odour.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna pleasingly sweet olfactory property
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰreh₁g-
- Latinfragrō
- Latinfragrāns
- Ecclesiastical Latinfragrantia
- Frenchfragrance
- Englishfragrance
Borrowed from French fragrance, from Middle French fragrance, from Old French fraglance, from Late Latin frāgrantia. See fragrant.
More words from French, Middle French, Old French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic أَرِيج, عَبِير
- أَرِيج (ʔarīj)pleasant smell or odour
- عَبِير (ʕabīr)pleasant smell or odour
- شَذًا (šaḏan)pleasant smell or odour
- عِطْر (ʕiṭr)pleasant smell or odour
Bengali খোশবু, মহক
- খোশবু (khośbu)pleasant smell or odour
- মহক (mohok)pleasant smell or odour
Bulgarian благоуха́ние, уха́ние
- благоуха́ние (blagouhánie)pleasant smell or odour
- уха́ние (uhánie)pleasant smell or odour
- арома́т (aromát)pleasant smell or odour
Catalan perfum, fragància
- perfumpleasant smell or odour
- fragànciapleasant smell or odour
Chinese Cantonese 香味, 芬芳
- 香味 (hoeng¹ mei⁶)pleasant smell or odour
- 芬芳 (fan¹ fong¹)pleasant smell or odour
- 香氣 /香气 (hoeng¹ hei³)pleasant smell or odour
Chinese Mandarin 香味, 芬芳
- 香味 (xiāngwèi)pleasant smell or odour
- 芬芳 (fēnfāng)pleasant smell or odour
- 香氣 /香气 (xiāngqì)pleasant smell or odour
- 芳味 (fāngwèi)pleasant smell or odour
- 芳氣 /芳气 (fāngqì)pleasant smell or odour
- 芬郁 (fēnyù)pleasant smell or odour
- 芳澤 /芳泽 (fāngzé)pleasant smell or odour
- 芬香 (fēnxiāng)pleasant smell or odour
Czech vůně
- vůněpleasant smell or odour
Danish duft
- duftpleasant smell or odour
Dutch aroma
- aromapleasant smell or odour
Esperanto bonodoro
- bonodoropleasant smell or odour
Estonian aroom, lõhn
- aroompleasant smell or odour
- lõhnpleasant smell or odour
Finnish tuoksu
- tuoksupleasant smell or odour
French parfum, fragrance
- parfumpleasant smell or odour
- fragrancepleasant smell or odour
German Duft, Duftnote
- Duftpleasant smell or odour
- Duftnotepleasant smell or odour
Greek άρωμα, ευωδιά
- άρωμα (ároma)pleasant smell or odour
- ευωδιά (evodiá)pleasant smell or odour
Hebrew נִיחוֹחַ
- נִיחוֹחַ (niḥóaḥ)pleasant smell or odour
Hindi परिमल, इत्र
- परिमल (parimal)pleasant smell or odour
- इत्र (itra)pleasant smell or odour
- अतर (atar)pleasant smell or odour
- महक (mahak)pleasant smell or odour
- गंध (gandh)pleasant smell or odour
- सुगंध (sugandh)pleasant smell or odour
- ख़ुशबू (xuśbū)pleasant smell or odour
Hungarian illat
- illatpleasant smell or odour
Icelandic ilmur
- ilmurpleasant smell or odour
Italian profumo, fragranza
- profumopleasant smell or odour
- fragranzapleasant smell or odour
Japanese 香り, 香気
- 香り (kaori)pleasant smell or odour
- 香気 (kōki)pleasant smell or odour
Korean 향기
- 향기 (hyanggi)pleasant smell or odour
Latvian aromāts, smarža
- aromātspleasant smell or odour
- smaržapleasant smell or odour
Lithuanian aromatas, kvepėjimas
- aromataspleasant smell or odour
- kvepėjimaspleasant smell or odour
Malay wangian
- wangianpleasant smell or odour
Māori kakara
- kakarapleasant smell or odour
Norwegian Bokmål duft, aroma
- duftpleasant smell or odour
- aromapleasant smell or odour
- godluktpleasant smell or odour
Persian عطر
- عطر ('atr)pleasant smell or odour
Polish woń, zapach
- wońpleasant smell or odour
- zapachpleasant smell or odour
Portuguese fragrância, perfume
- fragrânciapleasant smell or odour
- perfumepleasant smell or odour
- cheiropleasant smell or odour
Punjabi ਖੁਸ਼ਬੂ, ਸੁਗੰਧ
- ਖੁਸ਼ਬੂ (khuśbū)pleasant smell or odour
- ਸੁਗੰਧ (sugandh)pleasant smell or odour
Russian арома́т, благоуха́ние
- арома́т (aromát)pleasant smell or odour
- благоуха́ние (blagouxánije)pleasant smell or odour
Slovak vôňa
- vôňapleasant smell or odour
Spanish fragancia, aroma
- fraganciapleasant smell or odour
- aromapleasant smell or odour
- fragrancia (disused)pleasant smell or odour
Swedish doft, vällukt
- doftpleasant smell or odour
- välluktpleasant smell or odour
- arompleasant smell or odour
Tagalog bango
- bangopleasant smell or odour
Tamil மணம், நறுமணம்
- மணம் (maṇam)pleasant smell or odour
- நறுமணம் (naṟumaṇam)pleasant smell or odour
- நறுநாற்றம் (naṟunāṟṟam)pleasant smell or odour
Thai กลิ่นหอม
- กลิ่นหอม (glìn-hŏm)pleasant smell or odour
Turkish koku, güzel koku
- kokupleasant smell or odour
- güzel kokupleasant smell or odour
- rayihapleasant smell or odour
- ıtırpleasant smell or odour
- nefhapleasant smell or odour
Ukrainian арома́т
- арома́т (aromát)pleasant smell or odour
Vietnamese mùi thơm, hương thơm
- mùi thơmpleasant smell or odour
- hương thơmpleasant smell or odour
- hương vịpleasant smell or odour
Cite this entry
fragrance. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fragrance
“fragrance.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fragrance. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fragrance,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fragrance.
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