Essence vs. Scent — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Essence and Scent
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Essence
Essence (Latin: essentia) is a polysemic term, used in philosophy and theology as a designation for the property or set of properties that make an entity or substance what it fundamentally is, and which it has by necessity, and without which it loses its identity. Essence is contrasted with accident: a property that the entity or substance has contingently, without which the substance can still retain its identity.
Scent
A distinctive smell, especially one that is pleasant
The scent of freshly cut hay
Essence
The intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract, which determines its character
Conflict is the essence of drama
Scent
A trail indicated by the characteristic smell of an animal and perceptible to hounds or other animals
The hound followed the scent
Essence
An extract or concentrate obtained from a plant or other matter and used for flavouring or scent
Vanilla essence
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Scent
The faculty or sense of smell
The dog, having the help of scent as well as of sight
Essence
The intrinsic or indispensable quality or qualities that serve to characterize or identify something
The essence of democracy is the freedom to choose.
Scent
Impart a pleasant scent to
A glass of tea scented with a local herb
Essence
(Philosophy) The inherent, unchanging nature of a thing or class of things, especially as contrasted with its existence.
Scent
Discern by the sense of smell
A shark can scent blood from well over half a kilometre away
Essence
The most important part or aspect of something
The essence of her argument is that the policy is wrongheaded.
Scent
A distinctive, often agreeable odor.
Essence
An extract that has the fundamental properties of a substance in concentrated form.
Scent
A perfume
An expensive French scent.
Essence
Such an extract in a solution of alcohol.
Scent
An odor left by the passing of an animal.
Essence
A perfume or scent.
Scent
The trail of a hunted animal or fugitive
The hounds are on the scent.
Essence
One that has or shows an abundance of a quality as if highly concentrated
A neighbor who is the essence of hospitality.
Scent
The sense of smell
A bear's keen scent.
Essence
Something that exists, especially a spiritual or incorporeal entity.
Scent
A hint of something imminent; a suggestion
Caught the scent of a reconciliation.
Essence
The inherent nature of a thing or idea.
Scent
To perceive or identify by the sense of smell
Dogs scenting their prey.
Essence
(philosophy) The true nature of anything, not accidental or illusory.
Scent
To suspect or detect
Scented danger.
Essence
Constituent substance.
Scent
To fill with a pleasant odor; perfume
When blossoms scent the air.
Essence
A being; especially, a purely spiritual being.
Scent
To hunt prey by means of the sense of smell. Used of hounds.
Essence
A significant feature of something.
Scent
A distinctive smell.
The scent of flowers / of a skunk
To give off / release / exude a scent
To breathe in / inhale a scent
Essence
The concentrated form of a plant or drug obtained through a distillation process.
Essence of Jojoba
Scent
A smell left by an animal that may be used for tracing.
The dogs picked up / caught the scent but then quickly lost it.
Essence
An extract or concentrate obtained from a plant or other matter used for flavouring, or as a restorative.
Vanilla essence
Scent
The sense of smell.
I believe the bloodhound has the best scent of all dogs.
Essence
Fragrance, a perfume.
Scent
A substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell.
A scent shop
A scent bazaar
Essence
The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence.
Scent
(figuratively) Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
The minister's off-hand remark put journalists on the scent of a cover-up.
The tip put the detectives on a false / the wrong scent.
Essence
The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence); the real being, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, virtue or quality of a thing, separated from its grosser parts.
The laws are at present, both in form and essence, the greatest curse that society labors under.
Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence of this virtue [charity].
The essence of Addison's humor is irony.
Scent
(obsolete) Sense, perception.
Essence
Constituent substance.
And uncompounded is their essence pure.
Scent
(transitive) To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell.
The hounds scented the fox in the woods.
Essence
A being; esp., a purely spiritual being.
As far as gods and heavenly essencesCan perish.
He had been indulging in fanciful speculations on spiritual essences, until . . . he had and ideal world of his own around him.
Scent
(ambitransitive) To inhale in order to detect the scent of (something).
Essence
The predominant qualities or virtues of a plant or drug, extracted and refined from grosser matter; or, more strictly, the solution in spirits of wine of a volatile or essential oil; as, the essence of mint, and the like.
The . . . word essence . . . scarcely underwent a more complete transformation when from being the abstract of the verb "to be," it came to denote something sufficiently concrete to be inclosed in a glass bottle.
Scent
To have a suspicion of; to detect the possibility of (something).
I scented trouble when I saw them running down the hill towards me.
Essence
Perfume; odor; scent; or the volatile matter constituting perfume.
Nor let the essences exhale.
Scent
(transitive) To impart an odour to, to cause to have a particular smell.
Scent the air with burning sage before you begin your meditation.
Essence
To perfume; to scent.
Scent
To have a smell; (figuratively) to give an impression (of something).
Essence
The choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;
The gist of the prosecutor's argument
The heart and soul of the Republican Party
The nub of the story
Scent
To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
Essence
Any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted
Scent
To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.
Methinks I scent the morning air.
Essence
The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
Scent
To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume.
Balm from a silver box distilled around,Shall all bedew the roots, and scent the sacred ground.
Essence
A toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor
Scent
To have a smell.
Thunderbolts . . . do scent strongly of brimstone.
Scent
To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.
Scent
That which, issuing from a body, affects the olfactory organs of animals; odor; smell; as, the scent of an orange, or of a rose; the scent of musk.
With lavish hand diffuses scents ambrosial.
Scent
Specifically, the odor left by an animal on the ground in passing over it; as, dogs find or lose the scent; hence, course of pursuit; track of discovery.
He gained the observations of innumerable ages, and traveled upon the same scent into Ethiopia.
Scent
The power of smelling; the sense of smell; as, a hound of nice scent; to divert the scent.
Scent
A distinctive odor that is pleasant
Scent
An odor left in passing by which a person or animal can be traced
Scent
Any property detected by the olfactory system
Scent
Cause to smell or be smelly
Scent
Catch the scent of; get wind of;
The dog nosed out the drugs
Scent
Apply perfume to;
She perfumes herself every day
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