The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fragrant \Fra"grant\, a. [L. fragrans. -antis, p. pr. of fragrare to emit a smell of fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant.] Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume.
Fragrant the fertile earth
After soft showers.
--Milton.
Syn: Sweet-smelling; odorous; odoriferous; sweet-scented; redolent; ambrosial; balmy; spicy; aromatic. -- Fra"grant*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
adv. In a fragrant manner
Usage examples of "fragrantly".
He unwrapped the bamboo sheath from around a serving of clams, picked up a pair of chopsticks, and selected a plump one that steamed fragrantly.
And bubbling fragrantly in a pot on the oil range was a boiled dinner: cabbage, turnips, pota- toes, onions, salt beet and moose meat.
At first I put it down to foul Chinese grub, and certainly something gave me the most vivid nightmares, in which I was playing a single-wicket match up and downstairs in Whampoa's house, and his silky little Chinese tarts were showing me how to hold my bat - that part of it was all right, as they snuggled up, whispering fragrantly and guiding my hands, but all the time I was conscious of dark shapes moving behind the screens, and when Daedalus Tighe bowled to me it was a Chinese lantern that I had to hit, and it went ballooning up into the dark, bursting into a thousand rockets, and Old Morrison and the Duke came jumping out at me in sarongs, crying that I must run all through the house to score a single, at compound interest, and I set off, blundering past the screens, where nameless horrors lurked, and I was trying to catch Solomon, who was flitting like a shadow before me, calling out of the dark that there was no danger, because he carried ten guns, and I could feel someone or .
A few leaves of lemon balm floated fragrantly on the surface of the plain pottery bowl.
There were cheeses, pastries, cold meats, fruit that was fragrantly ripe, and spicy breads.