odiferousadj.

a1500 in Mod. Lang. Notes (1934) 49 92 His smel Þt ben so swete and so odeferus.

1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth iii. sig. C.i That there be no fylth in them, but good & odyferous sauours.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Odiferous, loke in odoriferous, for the laste is the better phrase.

1599 T. M. Micro-cynicon i. iii They are so bathed ore by sweete desire In the odiferous fountaine of sweete pleasure.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 69 Working upon humane ordure and by long preparation rendring it odiferous . View more context for this quotation

1651 A. Weamys Contin. Sydney's Arcadia 119 The two foremost [virgin Nimphs] perfumed the ayr as they went with their odiferous sweets.

1700 E. Ward Frolick to Horn-fair 5 I might..smell as Odiferous as any Sweet-Bag.

1851 V. Lush Jrnl. 8 Aug. (1971) 83 It looked marvellously strange to see so rough a looking man taking up bottle after bottle with all the air of a connoisseur, and at last..selecting those which seemed to his olfactory nerves the most odiferous.

1895 Amer. Naturalist 29 86 Fragrant flowers and fruits turn the formol to an agreeably odiferous fluid.

1924 Ecology 5 245 Sweet fern, Myrica aspleniflora, forms odiferous clumps in the more open places.

1946 Far Eastern Q. 5 391 Commercial enterprise turned to..the Lesser Sunda Islands of Timor and Solor, whence came the odiferous sandalwood highly prized by the Chinese.

1977 Fanfare (Toronto) 6 July 3/1 German barbers worked busily for years on odiferous brews to suppress the dangerous shade.

1992 R. Manning Swamp Root Chron. xiii. 201 The Nigerian capital was then suffering the odiferous effects of a strike by the city's night-soil collectors.