Meanings
plural smell-alikes
- rareSomething that smells like something else.
In L'Oréal v. Belure, the dispute concerned marketing of so-called smell-alikes.
2020, Irene Calboli, Jane C. Ginsburg, The Cambridge Handbook of International and Comparative Trademark Law1 more example
[…] chamomile and apples? Those particular smellalikes tested our imagination. Yet much of what he said was right on the mark. The scent of sweet peas, for instance, does indeed favor that of wisteria.
1989, Rayford Clayton Reddell, Robert Galyean, Growing Fragrant Plants, page 13
Origin
From smell + alike, perhaps modelled on lookalike.
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