| BALM | A pleasant aroma; a fragrant soothing salve; or, the lemon scented herb related to lavender, mint and rosemary whose genus Melissa means "honey bee" (4) |
| THYME | Fragrant herb related to lavender, mint and rosemary, used for bouquets garnis and esteemed for its oregano-scented essential oil (5) |
| BERGAMOT | A citron-, limonette- or orange-like fruit; essence extracted from such a citrus; bee balm or mint of similar aroma; a fine sweet dessert pear; or, a tapestry made in a picturesque medieval walled cit |
| LAUNDRY | Word, related to "lavender", for one's clothes and linens for the wash; or, the place where one airs said washables, literally or figuratively (7) |
| MINT | Herb related to lavender and catnip, used to flavour julep (4) |
| SCENT | A hunting term for a dog's faculty of smell that came to mean perfume or any pleasant aroma; or, a trail (5) |
| FRAGRANCE | Word, wafting from the Latin for "to smell sweet", for the pleasant aroma of coffee, cologne, potager's bouquet or freshly baked bread; bottled scent collectively; or, a delightful influence (9) |
| ELEMI | Pine- or lemon-scented oleoresin harvested from a tree native to the Philippines, Canarium luzonicum |
| HERB | Once distinguished in botanica-like shops as either freshly gathered or cut and dried, hence the phrase, fragrant plants such as lavender, mint, rosemary, sage or thyme (4) |
| PASTEL | Originally just a lump of "dough", now lavender, mint green, peach, powder blue or any other soft delicate muted colour of the spectrum or rainbow (6) |
| SAGE | Evergreen shrub and herb related to hyssop, lavender, mint, rosemary and thyme, Salvia officinalis (4) |
| ASCENT | Rise of a pleasant aroma |
| THYMOL | Chemical compound with a pleasant aroma, found in antiseptics (6) |
| FERN | Royal, lemon-scented, maidenhair, hart's tongue, lady ... flowerless plant with fiddleheads and fronds, collected in the Victorian craze pteridomania (4) |
| GROG | A lemon-scented catmint with bluepurple flowers ... and old naval alcoholic drink (4) |
| ALOE | Succulent that produces a soothing salve |
| INCENSE | Natural substance burned for its pleasant aroma " wood, bark, resin, gum, flower, root, elemi etc (7) |
| LILAC | Pale purplish colour similar to lavender and mauve but lighter than violet (5) |
| UNGUENT | Soothing salve |
| CITRONELLA | Tropical Asian grass with bluish-green lemon-scented leaves (10) |
