different between fragrance vs chypre

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French fragrance, from Latin fragrantia. See fragrant.

Pronunciation

• enPR: fr??-gr?ns, IPA^(key): /?f?e????ns/

Noun

fragrance (countable and uncountable, plural fragrances)

1. A pleasant smell or odour.

Synonyms

• (pleasant smell): aroma

Translations

Verb

fragrance (third-person singular simple present fragrances, present participle fragrancing, simple past and past participle fragranced)

1. (transitive) To apply a fragrance to; to perfume.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin fragrantia, from fragr?, fragr?re. Related to flairer, which was inherited.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f?a.????s/

Noun

fragrance f (plural fragrances)

1. a fragrance, a pleasurable smell

Further reading

• “fragrance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• chipre

Etymology

French Chypre (“Cyprus”), the name of a perfume created by François Coty in 1917.

Noun

chypre (plural chypres)

1. Any of a family of fragrances built on a base consisting of bergamot, oakmoss and labdanum.

Translations

Anagrams

• Cypher, cypher