scent

A distinctive smell.

the scent of flowers / of a skunk

to give off / release / exude a 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.

He […] twice to-day pick’d out the dullest scent; / Trust me, I take him for the better dog.

The sense of smell.

I believe the bloodhound has the best scent of all dogs.

His houndes espyde him where he was, and Blacksoote first of all / And Stalker speciall good of sent began aloud to call.

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

a scent shop

a scent bazaar

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 scent / the wrong scent.

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

The hounds scented the fox in the woods.

methinks I scent the morning air.

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

I paused to scent the breeze as I entered the valley.

One night he sprang from sleep with a start, eager-eyed, nostrils quivering and scenting,

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

I scented trouble when I saw them running down the hill towards me.

Cope seemed to scent a challenge and accepted it.

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

Scent the air with burning sage before you begin your meditation.

Balm, from a Silver box distill’d around, / Shall all bedew the roots and scent the sacred ground;

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

Thunderbolts & lightnings […] do sent strongly of brimstone:

1647, John Fletcher and Philip Massinger, The False One, Act III, Scene 2, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies, London: John Martyn et al., p. 325, I smell him now: fie, how the Knave perfumes him, / How strong he scents of Traitor?