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The phrase "a scent like" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when comparing a particular smell to another scent, often to evoke imagery or describe a fragrance.
Example: "The candle emitted a scent like fresh lavender, filling the room with a calming aroma."
Alternatives: "an aroma similar to" or "a fragrance akin to".
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It seeped a scent like a basement.
Just as astonishing, to Waggoner, is a dog's acuity — the way it can isolate and identify compounds within a scent, like the spices in a soup.
The only fresh ones in season now are the big summer truffles on display, black outside, taupe inside, with a scent like white truffles.
Just as astonishing, to Waggoner, is a dog's acuity the way it can isolate and identify compounds within a scent, like the spices in a soup.
In those ads, each of the 18 Renuzit scents appears next to a hunky young man; "Romancing the Joan" turns each hunky contestant into a personification of a scent like After the Rain Ryan, Hawaiian Oasis Heath and Raspberry Richard.
In among the typical recording detritus of New York's Jungle City Studios – boxes of foam ear plugs, rolls of tape, untouched buttons on a soundboard the size of a London studio flat – sits a Febreze candle, its lime-green wax emitting a scent like sweetened detergent.
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That's a scent I like a lot.
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If you have a scent you like, try spraying it or scenting the vehicle with it.
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