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The walled enclosure, full of scented walks, evoked the feeling of a spiritual sanctuary—a quality it shared with the Iranian gardens she visited and wrote about in 2003’s “Gardens of Persia.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

Seventeen runs from a maiden century, he scented six of them when Nathan Gilchrist dropped short, but his pull found only the hands of Dan Mousley at deep square leg.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

“We can never go back to the old days where the air was clean and pure and sweet and scented with orange blossoms.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

A big get at the time was putting highly scented Yankee Candles on shelves for the first time in 2017.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

Eight o’clock had struck before I got into the air, that was scented, not disagreeably, by the chips and shavings of the long-shore boat-builders, and mast, oar, and block makers.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens