The quality of any thing or substance, or emanation therefrom, which affects the olfactory organs; odor; scent; fragrance; perfume; as, the smell of mint
If you smell something, you put your nose near it and breathe in, so that you can discover its smell. I took a fresh rose out of the vase on our table, and smelled it. = sniff
(an acute sense) James Mitchell was deaf, dumb, and blind from birth, but he distinguished persons by their smell, and by means of the same sense formed correct judgments as to character (Nineteenth Century, April, 1894, p 579 )
The smell of something is a quality it has which you become aware of when you breathe in through your nose. the smell of freshly baked bread. horrible smells
Odors drift into the nose and cause the smell receptors to send messages to the brain The smell part of the brain is in the limbic region, and is connected to feeling and memory
the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form; "she loved the smell of roses"
the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason"
If you smell something, you become aware of it when you breathe in through your nose. As soon as we opened the front door we could smell the gas
If you say that something smells, you mean that it smells unpleasant. Ma threw that out. She said it smelled Do my feet smell?