Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Having a pleasant smell; fragrant: Describes something that emits or is filled with a noticeable, typically agreeable, odor.
   • Having the odor or smell of a specific thing: Often used in combination to indicate the presence of a particular scent.
   • Impregnated or treated with perfume: Describes something that has had a fragrance added to it.
   • Having a keen sense of smell: Used to describe animals, particularly hounds, with an acute olfactory ability.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • She placed scented candles around the room to create a relaxing atmosphere.
  • The laundry came out clean and fresh-scented.
  • The garden was filled with beautifully scented roses.
  • Keen-scented dogs are essential for search and rescue operations.

Advanced Usage

• Used in combination: The adjective is frequently combined with a noun or another adjective to specify the type of smell.
  • The lemon-scented cleaner left a fresh aroma in the kitchen.
  • He walked through the pine-scented forest.

Variants and Related Words

• Scent (n/verb): The noun refers to a distinctive smell, especially a pleasant one. The verb means to impart a scent to or to detect by smell.
  • The scent of jasmine filled the air. (n)
  • The flowers scented the entire hallway. (verb)
• Scentless (adj): Having no scent; odorless.
  • Some varieties of flowers are beautiful but scentless.

Synonyms

• Fragrant: Having a sweet or pleasant smell.
• Perfumed: Scented with perfume.
• Aromatic: Having a strong, pleasant smell.
• Odorous: Having a smell (can be neutral, pleasant, or unpleasant, but often used for strong smells).

Related Phrases

• Scented with: Impregnated or flavored with a particular smell.
  • The soap was scented with lavender and chamomile.

Related Idioms

• To follow one's nose / To be on the scent: While not directly using "scented," this idiom relates to the noun "scent" and means to pursue a course of action based on intuition or evidence.
  • The detective was on the scent of the criminal.

Adjective

1. (used in combination) having the odor of
   • clean-scented laundry
   • a manure-scented barnyard
2. having a natural fragrance
   • odoriferous spices
   • the odorous air of the orchard
   • the perfumed air of June
   • scented flowers
3. filled or impregnated with perfume
   • perfumed boudoir
   • perfumed stationery
   • scented soap
4. having the sense of smell
   • keen-scented hounds