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Fragrance: Definition, Usage & Key Differences (2 meaning)

Meaning 1：sweet smell (fragrance)

fragrance 🔊

/ˈfreɪ.ɡrəns/

A pleasant and sweet smell, like from flowers or fresh fruit.

Fragrance illustrated by a dew-covered pink rose, representing a sweet natural smell.

sweet smell 🔊

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/swiːt smɛl/

A pleasant, often natural scent, typically from flowers or plants.

📁 Category：Botany Research 🔖 Level：Beginner

📘 Details & Usage

📖 Root Explanation

From Latin ‘fragrare’ (to smell sweet) via Old French ‘fragrance’.

💡 Mnemonic

Imagine a beautiful FRAME holding a picture of a ROSE, with a sweet scent. FRAME + ROSE = FRAGRANCE.

📖 Example

Walking into the garden, the sweet fragrance of roses immediately lifted my mood. 🔊 Upon entering the garden, the delightful scent of roses instantly improved my spirits.

🔗 Collocations

delicate fragrance – a subtle and pleasant smell

carry a fragrance – to have or emit a smell

release its fragrance – to let out its scent

🔄 Synonyms

aroma (n.) – A usually pleasant smell, often from food or coffee.

scent (n.) – A distinctive smell, either natural or created.

perfume (n.) – A sweet or pleasant smell, especially from flowers.

🚫 Antonyms

stench (n.) – A strong and very unpleasant smell.

🌱 Derivatives

fragrant (adj.) – Having a pleasant smell.

📖 Cultural Story

Derived from Old French ‘fragrance’, which comes from the Latin verb ‘fragrare’, meaning ‘to smell sweet’. This root is shared with other pleasant-smelling words like ‘fragrant’.

Meaning 2：perfume (fragrance)

fragrance 🔊

/ˈfreɪ.ɡrəns/

A liquid, often in a beautiful bottle, that you put on your skin to make yourself smell nice.

perfume 🔊

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/pɜːrˈfjuːm/

A liquid product, often luxury, worn to impart a pleasant personal scent.

📁 Category：Fashion Trends 🔖 Level：Intermediate

📘 Details & Usage

📖 Example

She received a bottle of expensive French fragrance as a birthday gift from her best friend. 🔊 Her best friend gifted her a costly French perfume for her birthday.

🔗 Collocations

wear a fragrance – to have perfume applied to one's body

signature fragrance – a person's characteristic or favorite perfume

apply fragrance – to put perfume on the skin

🔄 Synonyms

perfume (n.) – A fragrant liquid typically made from essential oils and used to give a pleasant smell to the body.

eau de toilette (n.) – A lightly scented perfume.

🚫 Antonyms

deodorant (n.) – A substance applied to the body to prevent or mask body odor, not primarily for fragrance.