Definition of "smell" []

• To perceive the scent of (something) by means of the olfactory nerves. (verb-transitive)
• To sense the presence of by or as if by the olfactory nerves; detect or discover: We smelled trouble ahead. The committee tried to smell out corruption in law enforcement. (verb-transitive)
• To use the sense of smell; perceive the scent of something. (verb-intransitive)
• To have or emit an odor: "The breeze smelled exactly like Vouvray—flowery, with a hint of mothballs underneath” ( Anne Tyler). (verb-intransitive)
• To be suggestive; have a touch of something: a cave that smells of terror. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Tom- Just went back and read your review of Oud 27 and have put it in my list of 'to smell'..though right now Arabian Oud's King Fahed is what I am dying to smell!"
• "* We swap pjs, his are still warm and smell like cigarette smoke mixed with fresh masculine smell*"
• "Among senses, smell was the strongest: —smell of hot pine-woods and sweet-fern in the scorching summer noon; of new-mown hay; of ploughed earth; of box hedges; of peaches, lilacs, syringes; of stables, barns, cow-yards; of salt water and low tide on the marshes; nothing came amiss."