smell-alike

English

Etymology

From smell +‎ alike, perhaps modelled on lookalike.

Noun

smell-alike (plural smell-alikes)

1. (rare) Something that smells like something else.

   Coordinate terms: lookalike, soundalike

   • 1989, Rayford Clayton Reddell, Robert Galyean, Growing Fragrant Plants, page 13:

     […] chamomile and apples? Those particular smellalikes tested our imagination. Yet much of what he said was right on the mark. The scent of sweet peas, for instance, does indeed favor that of wisteria.

   • 2020, Irene Calboli, Jane C. Ginsburg, The Cambridge Handbook of International and Comparative Trademark Law:

     In L'Oréal v. Belure, the dispute concerned marketing of so-called smell-alikes.