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100 Words to Describe Smells in Writing

February 15, 2026

100 Words to Describe Smells in Writing

No. Term Definition
1. Acrid sharp, biting, irritating smell
2. Airy light, open, barely-there scent
3. Alcoholic smelling of spirits or ethanol
4. Almondy sweet, nutlike, marzipan scent
5. Ammoniacal pungent, urine-like ammonia odor
6. Animalic musky, bodily, fur-like odor
7. Aniseed sweet, licorice-like spice smell
8. Antiseptic clean, medicinal, disinfectant odor
9. Aromatic pleasantly fragrant, spice-tinged
10. Ashen dry, sooty, fireplace-like smell
11. Balsamic resinous, sweet, wood-and-amber scent
12. Barnyard earthy, manure-tinged farm smell
13. Bitter sharp, sour-leaning unpleasant odor
14. Brackish salty, stagnant, sea-tinged smell
15. Burnt charred, scorched, smoke-heavy odor
16. Buttery rich, creamy, melted-fat scent
17. Camphorous cool, medicinal, mothball-like aroma
18. Candy-sweet sugary, confection-like fragrance
19. Carbolic phenolic, disinfectant-like odor
20. Cedarwood dry, pencil-shaving wood scent
21. Chlorinous bleachy, pool-chemical smell
22. Citrusy bright, zesty, peel-like scent
23. Cloying overly sweet, suffocating fragrance
24. Cocoa-rich deep, chocolatey, roasted aroma
25. Damp wet, musty, moisture-heavy smell
26. Decaying rotting, breaking-down organic odor
27. Diesel oily, fuel-like exhaust smell
28. Dirty grimy, unwashed, stale odor
29. Disinfectant sterile, chemical-clean smell
30. Doggy wet-fur, kennel-like odor
31. Dried-herbal crushed leaves, haylike aroma
32. Dusty powdery, old-paper smell
33. Earthy soil-like, grounded, loamy scent
34. Eggy sulfurous, boiled-egg smell
35. Elderflower lightly floral, green-sweet scent
36. Exhausty fume-heavy, traffic-like odor
37. Faint barely noticeable, subdued smell
38. Feculent filthy, sewage-like stench
39. Fermented yeasty, souring, brewing odor
40. Fetid intensely foul, putrid smell
41. Fishy briny, marine, stale-seafood odor
42. Floral flowerlike, perfumed scent
43. Fragrant pleasing, noticeable aroma
44. Gamy wild-meat, musky, bloody odor
45. Garlicky pungent, savory, allium smell
46. Gaseous chemical, fume-like odor
47. Gingered warm, spicy, sharp scent
48. Greasy oily, fried-fat smell
49. Green fresh-cut plant, leafy scent
50. Grimy soiled, sweat-tinged odor
51. Harsh rough, stinging, abrasive smell
52. Headachey overpowering, sickly strong scent
53. Heady intoxicatingly strong, lush aroma
54. Herbal leafy, medicinal-plant scent
55. Honeyed sweet, nectar-like fragrance
56. Hot-metal heated iron, workshop-like odor
57. Incensey smoky, resinous, temple-like scent
58. Inky sharp, chemical, pen-ink smell
59. Iodine briny, antiseptic, sea-medicinal
60. Jammy cooked fruit, thick-sweet smell
61. Jasmine rich, white-floral, narcotic scent
62. Jerky-like smoky, cured-meat aroma
63. Juniper piney, gin-like, resinous scent
64. Kerosene sharp, oily lamp-fuel smell
65. Kitchen-stale old cooking odors lingering
66. Lavender clean, calming, floral-herbal scent
67. Leathery tanned hide, warm, dry odor
68. Lemony bright, tart citrus smell
69. Malodorous noticeably unpleasant smell
70. Manurey strong dung, farmyard odor
71. Medicinal drugstore-like, antiseptic scent
72. Mildewy musty, damp-mold smell
73. Minty cool, sharp, refreshing scent
74. Mossy green, damp-forest smell
75. Musk warm, animal-skin fragrance
76. Nauseating sickeningly foul or cloying
77. Nutty toasted, seedlike aroma
78. Oaky dry barrel-wood scent
79. Oily slick, fatty, petroleum-tinged
80. Oniony sharp, sulfurous allium smell
81. Ozone sharp, clean, after-storm scent
82. Peppery spicy, prickling, sharp aroma
83. Perfumed artificially fragrant, cosmetic smell
84. Petrichor earthy scent after rain
85. Piney resinous evergreen smell
86. Pungent strong, sharp, penetrating odor
87. Putrid rotten, rancid, vile smell
88. Rancid spoiled fat, sour-oily odor
89. Resinous saplike, sticky, balsam scent
90. Ripe fully developed, sweet-strong odor
91. Rotten decomposed, foul organic smell
92. Salty sea-air, mineral tang scent
93. Savory meaty, brothlike, appetizing smell
94. Sewerish drain, waste, sewage odor
95. Skunky sharp, sulfurous spray smell
96. Smoky woodsmoke, ash, burnt scent
97. Soapy clean, detergent-like smell
98. Spicy warm, peppered, aromatic scent
99. Stale old, flat, airless smell
100. Stinking strongly unpleasant odor
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