fragrance
(ˈfreɪgrəns)
[a. OF. fragrance, ad. late L. frāgrantia, f. frāgrans: see fragrant.]
Sweetness of smell; sweet or pleasing scent.
| 1667 Milton P.L. ix. 425 Eve separate he spies, Veiled in a cloud of fragrance. 1725 Pope Odyss. vi. 92 A cruise of fragrance, formed of burnish'd gold. 1751 Gray Spring 10 Cool Zephyrs through the clear blue sky Their gather'd fragrance fling. 1817 Moore Lalla R. (1824) 131 As they sat in the cool fragrance of this delicious spot. 1853 C. Brontë Villette xxx, Inhaling the fragrance of baked apples from the refectory. |
| fig. 1821 Keats Isabella x, To meet again..and share The inward fragrance of each other's heart. 1838 J. H. Newman Par. Serm. (1839) IV. xvii. 297 Years that are past bear in retrospect so much of fragrance with them. |
Hence
ˈfragrance v. (trans.) nonce-wd., to fill with fragrance.
| 1854 Tait's Mag. XXI. 449 The rose-bush fragrances all the vale. |