Questions about example sentences with, and the definition and usage of "Scent"

A: It feels like people are losing their optimism quickly.

A: It means even if the love is no more, there are traces or signs of it left behind.

A: I think it means the dog will be more friendly if it smells a familiar scent.

A: Any food that you take out of a restaurant, cafe, bakery where you would normally eat inside, but then you "take it out" of the restaurant, cafe, bakery, and eat it at home or work or at the park or anywhere you want. The restaurant usually pack it in containers or boxes and place it inside a paper or plastic bags which is called a sack.

A: To make you confused. It came from when people use dogs to find something or someone using smell, and somebody would do something "to throw off the scent" so the dogs are unable to find it. Hope that makes sense'

A: (scent) The flower had a wonderful scent.
(smelling) I was smelling it because I love sweet floral scents.
(incense) When I went inside Todaiji the incense was so strong, so I had to leave the temple.

(Fraver = flavor)
(味) The ice cream shop had a new, exciting flavor that I could not stop thinking about!
(香味) Add cinnamon to the saucepan to give flavor to the boiled apples.

A: They are really close in meaning.

Scent is faint as well as specific to something/someone.

A fragrance is a word we use more for perfumes, flowers, oils, etc.

A easier word to use to sound more natural so you can use to describe anything is to say “ Smell “

Ex:
“ Wow, she smells good today”
Or

“ That smells so good “

A: @Crystal_tmn oooh this is a great question!!!

Scent- this can be any smell good or bad

Fragrance- this is a very good smell! Baked bread, a candle, a flower or a cookies baking

perfume- this usually describes a woman’s spray she might put on to make herself smell good.... that’s usually called perfume. But in poetic description, perfume can be used to describe a light, airy smell like a flower for example

Hope this helps

A: Fragrance has a positive connotation. Flowers are fragrant. The others we would qualify: he had a fowl aroma, that has a nice scent.

A: @Kei-M The easiest distinction is in pleasure, 匂い、嗅ぐ、薫る

A: I don’t think most native speakers of English can understand this sentence. Can you share the original Chinese version?

A: Thank you very much for nice advice! I hope I become able to speak several languages like you:))

A: Scent と smell は大体同じ意味だけど、smellの方がよく使われている。「そんなに」を使えば、”the smell isn’t that strong” と言います。

間違えなかったけど、”the smell isn’t that strong” の方が原文に似ているニュアンスがすると思います。

A: 香り is usually used to describe pleasant smells, like an aroma of a freshly brewed coffee, a smell of a perfume, or a scent of a flower.

匂い is a more general term for “smell” which can be used for both good smells and bad ones.

A: × I'm lost myself with your scent.
✓ I lost myself in your scent.

A: Just a smell
"The dog follows the skunk's scent into the woods"

A: This scent, this gentle breeze - it evokes my old school memories.

The way you structured the sentence made it seem as if it was a nostalgic recall of the past so by adding the hyphen, you potentially add tension which can sprawl into other ideas and methods. Alternatively, you can simply layer the feelings of emotion into your words by using more periods, commas and semicolons (and hyphens!).

A: You have the word order wrong, it should be, "I was able to smell the scent of death when passing by the den where monsters live." or, as a more natural statement, "I was able to smell the scent of death when I passed by the monster's den."
Either one is right. :)

A: It’s very good! I would just suggest that if this is for formal or academic writing, you should write out all numbers less than 21. So 20=twenty and 5=five. Also, “little 2 year old cousin” should be changed to “two-year-old little cousin”. Great job overall!