Scent vs. Perfume — What's the Difference?

A distinctive smell, especially one that is pleasant

Perfume (UK: , US: ; French: parfum) is a mixture of fragrant essential oils or aroma compounds, fixatives and solvents, usually in liquid form, used to give the human body, animals, food, objects, and living-spaces an agreeable scent. The 1939 Nobel Laureate for Chemistry, Leopold Ružička stated in 1945 that "right from the earliest days of scientific chemistry up to the present time perfumes have substantially contributed to the development of organic chemistry as regards methods, systematic classification, and theory."Ancient texts and archaeological excavations show the use of perfumes in some of the earliest human civilizations.

A trail indicated by the characteristic smell of an animal and perceptible to hounds or other animals

A fragrant liquid typically made from essential oils extracted from flowers and spices, used to give a pleasant smell to one's body

The faculty or sense of smell

Give a pleasant smell to

Impart a pleasant scent to

A substance that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor, especially a volatile liquid distilled from flowers or prepared synthetically.

Discern by the sense of smell

A pleasing, agreeable scent or odor.

A distinctive, often agreeable odor.

To fill or permeate with fragrance; impart a pleasant odor to.

A perfume

A pleasant smell; the scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor

An odor left by the passing of an animal.

(cosmetics) A substance created to provide a pleasant smell or one which emits an agreeable odor.

The trail of a hunted animal or fugitive

(transitive) To apply perfume to; to fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.

The sense of smell

To fill or impregnate with a perfume; to scent.

A hint of something imminent; a suggestion

The scent, odor, or odoriferous particles emitted from a sweet-smelling substance; a pleasant odor; fragrance; aroma.

To perceive or identify by the sense of smell

A substance that emits an agreeable odor.

To suspect or detect

A toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor

To fill with a pleasant odor; perfume

A distinctive odor that is pleasant

To hunt prey by means of the sense of smell. Used of hounds.

Fill or impregnate with an odor;

A distinctive smell.

Apply perfume to;

A smell left by an animal that may be used for tracing.

The sense of smell.

A substance (usually liquid) created to provide a pleasant smell.

(figuratively) Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.

(obsolete) Sense, perception.

(transitive) To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell.

(ambitransitive) To inhale in order to detect the scent of (something).

To have a suspicion of; to detect the possibility of (something).

(transitive) To impart an odour to, to cause to have a particular smell.

To have a smell; (figuratively) to give an impression (of something).

To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.

To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.

To imbue or fill with odor; to perfume.

To have a smell.

To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.

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.

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.

The power of smelling; the sense of smell; as, a hound of nice scent; to divert the scent.

A distinctive odor that is pleasant

An odor left in passing by which a person or animal can be traced

Any property detected by the olfactory system

Cause to smell or be smelly

Catch the scent of; get wind of;

Apply perfume to;