Flavour vs Aroma - What's the difference?
flavour | aroma |
The quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect.
A substance used to produce a taste. Flavouring.
A variety (of taste) attributed to an object.
The characteristic quality of something.
(informal) A kind or type.
(physics) One of the six types of quarks (top, bottom, strange, charmed, up, and down) or three types of leptons (electron, muon, and tauon).
(archaic) The quality produced by the sensation of smell; odour; fragrance.
A smell; especially a pleasant spicy or fragrant one.
As nouns the difference between flavour and aroma
is that flavour is the quality produced by the sensation of taste or, especially, of taste and smell in combined effect while aroma is a smell; especially a pleasant spicy or fragrant one.As a verb flavour
is to add flavouring to something.flavour
English
(wikipedia flavour)Alternative forms
* flavor (American spelling)Noun
(en noun)- The flavour of this apple pie is delicious.
- Flavour was added to the pudding.
- What flavour of bubble gum do you enjoy?
- the flavour of an experience
- Debian is one flavour of the Linux operating system.
- the flavour of a rose
Derived terms
* flavoured * flavourful * flavouring * flavourless * flavour of the month * flavour of the week * flavoursomeSee also
* gustatory * gustationaroma
English
Noun
(wikipedia aroma) (en-noun)- I love the aroma of cinnamon.
- The toilet was emitting a pungent, foul aroma .
