The phrase "a scent from" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the origin or source of a particular smell or fragrance.
Example: "As I walked through the garden, I caught a scent from the blooming jasmine flowers."
Alternatives: "an aroma from" or "a fragrance from".
Guests spritz themselves with a scent from the fragrance menu, which is tailored to each hotel.
It's one of those rare book titles that are as evocative as a scent from childhood.
Detectives found several dozen spent cartridges, and tracker dogs followed a scent from the site to a spot outside the nearby Albanian village of Poqeste.
A person taking pictures would choose a scent from a menu of options, and that information would be recorded on the film.
On Tuesday, police dogs trailed a scent from Mr. Palmer's abandoned pickup truck to an area of the park known as the Irish Potato Trail before losing the scent.
Some experts also questioned the F.B.I.'s use of bloodhounds from local police departments to try to trace a scent from the recovered letters to suspects' homes, including that of Dr. Hatfill.
Amy Dickerson, the sleek heroine of this novel by the author of "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain," is an auctioneer at a second-tier New York auction house.
His best, "A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain" -- it won a Pulitzer -- is a collection of short stories portraying in different ways, some magical, a Vietnamese rather than an American experience of the war and its aftermath.
Butler -- whose books include "A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain," which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1993, and "Tabloid Dreams" -- tries to fudge this by having Desi say he's merely obeying orders and that the millennium is regarded as a propitious time by humanity.
The Pulitzer for fiction went to novelist and story writer Robert Olen Butler for his collection of stories about Vietnamese Americans in Louisiana called A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain.
Mr. Butler, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain," treats his newest novelistic conceit as an occasion to toss every possible ingredient into a fanciful hellscape and then let these elements run wild.
