An agreeable taste or odor, or that quality of objects which appeals to the sense of smell or of taste, Matthew 5:13 . The sacrifice of Noah and that of Christ were acceptable to God, like the odor of a sweet incense to a man, Genesis 8:21 Ephesians 5:2 . The chief savor of the apostles' teaching was welcome by some to their eternal life, and rejected by others to their aggravated condemnation, 2 Corinthians 2:15,16 .