Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Latin term or phrase:
Odores suaveolentes
English translation:
pleasant / sweet-smelling odours
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Latin term
Odores suaveolentes
Odores suaveolentes are
odeurs musquées, camphrées, de menthe, pomme, violette, rose
musky, camphor (???), mint, apple, violet, rose
| 4 +3 | odores suaveolentes ("pleasant odours") |
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Proposed translations
odores suaveolentes ("pleasant odours")
This is Latin, not French, and is equally valid in English. It should be reproduced as it is. It's the actual term used by Von Haller in 1763 in his classification of odours, one of several subjective schemes proposed in this period:
https://books.google.es/books?id=Zpc2HbWbgTIC&pg=PA147&lpg=P...
It has been translated as "pleasant odours", as in this Ph.D. dissertation in Medical Anthropology, where the term is attributed to Linnaeus:
"Following Aristotle, Linnaeus also recognized two broad, hedonic categories: Odores suaveolentes (“pleasant odors”) and Odores foetidii (“fetid, unpleasant odors”).
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Note added at 18 mins (2018-07-05 07:55:00 GMT)
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The Latin term should be put in italics, by the way.
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Note added at 20 mins (2018-07-05 07:56:12 GMT)
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URL for the second reference: http://repositorio.museu-goeldi.br:8080/bitstream/mgoeldi/12...
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Note added at 21 mins (2018-07-05 07:57:42 GMT)
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You could also use "sweet-smelling odours" as the English equivalent.
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