Afterscent

Quick meaning: Afterscent is a noun meaning A scent that follows something; a scent remaining after its source is no longer present.

Meaning

A scent that follows something; a scent remaining after its source is no longer present.

Example Sentences

Carlotta tells me I am less passionate. It is morning. She has just left, leaving behind her a musky afterscent of dissatisfaction.

the tobacco, weed and cocaine on his fingers mixed with motor oil, all of it accumulating into the afterscent of wood smoke caught and soaked in his hair

Men—even those strongly addicted to the weed—seldom smoked in their own houses, the female prejudice against the after-scent of tobacco running remarkably high in the early “fifties.”

He closed the bathroom door with a muted creak so that he could turn on the light without its pale square opening on the wall in the bedroom where his wife lay. The warm after-scent of a bath met him.

Word Forms

• afterscents

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include aftersensation, afterfeel, aftersound, sequel, afterstory, afterset.

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