Careful Words

aromatic (adj.)

Die of a rose in aromatic pain.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 200.

As aromatic plants bestow

No spicy fragrance while they grow;

But crush'd or trodden to the ground,

Diffuse their balmy sweets around.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): The Captivity. Act i.