"dense scent" can be used in written English.
You can use it to describe a smell that is overpowering and intense. For example, when I opened the door, I was overwhelmed by the dense scent of jasmine in the room.
Peppermint (M. × piperita), a hybrid between spearmint and water mint, has a heavy scent, stalked leaves, and reddish lilac flowers in dense spikes.
Dr. Myers has shown that scent emanates from an object in a plume that swirls and eddies in a turbulent flow so that there are patches of dense odor and areas of faint odor.
The truck interior was dense with the scent of his cologne and, from time to time, Obinze would take deep gulps of fresh air through the open window.
Mr. Ott's curiosity about the mood-altering potential of various aromas and ingredients led to an immersion in "Meaningful Scents Around the World," a dense 2006 book by Roman Kaiser that explores the chemical properties of unusual scents and flavors, from "watermelon snow" algae in the Swiss Alps to pine resin in Italy to Cordyceps sinensis, the prized "caterpillar fungus" of China.
The fragrant sumac has three-parted leaves, scented when bruised; it forms a dense low shrub useful in landscaping.
Desserts were as ingeniously conceived and carefully prepared as the other courses, especially a dense chocolate bread pudding and a vanilla flan scented with carob and the Peruvian grape brandy called pisco.
A roiled gust of steam and scent rose to my nostrils; I luxuriated in that dense, luscious fragrance, then, trembling only slightly, dipped the tines of the fork into the casserole and brought a bite of intermingled noodles, cream of mushroom soup, bread crumbs and chicken to my lips.
The bread – more like dense, chewy cubes of noodle dough – packs out aromatic beef broth, scented with fennel seed and cassia and brimming with meat, glass noodles and slithery black mushrooms reeking of mulch and undergrowth.
A scented, vegan, bread-like cake from TheWholeIngredient that is a little dense when freshly baked – but that's nothing that some CoYo can't fix.
