Odor
Odor noun - The quality of a thing that makes it perceptible to the sense organs in the nose.
Usage example: some people find the odor of skunk rather pleasant
Perfume is a synonym for odor in scent topic. In some cases you can use "Perfume" instead a noun "Odor", when it comes to topics like smell. popular alternative
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At the end of one Looney Tunes cartoon, Pepe Le Pew concocts a super perfume that not only drowns out his own odor, but makes him irresistible to the opposite sex.
Source: Smells Sexy -
Perfume depicts the 18th century Paris as the grossest place in the world; the book even points out that, while our 2008 Paris has at most a faint smell of car exhaust, the 18th century Paris smelled like crap, rot, sweat, rotten fish, urine, and any nasty odor you could imagine.
Source: The Dung Ages - As proof, her own sweat and body odor is a mild hypnotic psychoactive "perfume".
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Perfume and Odor. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/odor/perfume
Odor & Perfume. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/odor/perfume>.
Perfume or Odor. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/odor/perfume.
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