• enPR: sĕnt, IPA: /sɛnt/

scent

1. A distinctive odour or smell.

   the scent of flowers

   the scent of a skunk

2. An odour left by an animal that may be used for tracing.

   The dogs lost the scent.

3. The sense of smell.

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

4. A perfume.
5. (figuratively) Any trail or trace that can be followed to find something or someone, such as the paper left behind in a paperchase.
6. (obsolete) Sense, perception.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene:

     A fit false dream, that can delude the sleeper's sent.

• aroma
• fragrance
• nosegay
• odor
• perfume
• smell

• French: odeur
• German: Geruch, Duft
• Portuguese: cheiro, aroma, odor
• Russian: за́пах
• Spanish: olor, esencia

• Portuguese: cheiro
• Russian: след

• French: odorat
• Portuguese: olfato
• Russian: нюх
• Spanish: olfato

• German: Parfüm, Parfum
• Portuguese: perfume, fragrância
• Russian: духи́
• Spanish: fragancia

• German: Fährte
• Portuguese: pista
• Russian: след

scent (scents, present participle scenting; past and past participle scented)

1. (transitive) To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell.

   The hounds scented the fox in the woods.

   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene v]:

     Methinks I scent the morning air.

2. (transitive, figurative) To have a suspicion of.

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

3. (transitive) To impart an odour to.

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

   • Balm from a silver box distilled around, / Shall all bedew the roots, and scent the sacred ground.

4. (intransitive, archaic) To have a smell.

   • Thunderbolts […] do scent strongly of brimstone.

5. To hunt animals by means of the sense of smell.

• German: wittern
• Italian: fiutare
• Portuguese: sentir (o) cheiro (de)
• Russian: обоня́ть
• Spanish: oler

• German: parfümieren
• Portuguese: perfumar, odorizar
• Russian: па́хнуть