Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Fragrant
As fragrant as clover’s sod.
—Anonymous
Fragrant as musk.
—Anonymous
Fragrant as field-flowers.
—Honoré de Balzac
Fragrant … as May.
—Lord De Tabley
Fragrant as a violet on a summer’s night.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fragrant as the breath of angels.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fragrant as thyme upon the mountains.
—Dr. Samuel Johnson
Apples, as fragrant, and as bright a hue, as those which in Alcinou’s gardens grew, mellowed by constant sunshine; or as those, which graced the Hesperides, in burnished rows.
—Juvenal
Fragrant as the morning rose.
—Christopher Marlowe
Fragrant as the frosted blossom of a May night.
—George Meredith
Fragrant as the dewfall.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fragrant as lilacs.
—William Makepeace Thackeray
Fragrant as the breath of flow’rs.
—William Thomson