odour

Universal Words (BrE) (AmE odor) noun [C,U] (formal) a smell, especially one that is unpleasant: a fishy / musty / pungent odour * the stale odour of cigarette smoke * (figurative) the odour of suspicion seealsoBODYODOUR IDIOMS be in good / bad odour (with sb) (formal) to have/not have sb's approval and support