wafting
Carried by breeze
Wafting is the present participle of waft—to move gently through air or water, or to carry something lightly on currents.
Scents waft through open windows; music wafts from a distant room.
The word suggests passive, effortless movement: The smell of bacon came wafting up the stairs.
Things waft toward you rather than at you.
aroma
Pleasant distinctive smell
- fragrancePleasing olfactory quality
- perfumeFragrant liquid for wearing
- incenseAnger greatly, or aromatic resin
smoke · spice · baking · coffee · flowers · herbs · pine · jasmine · lavender · sandalwood
drift
Gradual movement, no direction
sweep · flutter · hover · sail · stream · flit · undulate · sway · meander · waver
- wind actionblowing, gusting, howling, whistling, whipping
- Floatingfloat, floating, afloat, hover, hovering
- smokysmoky, smoking, smoldering, fuming, smoked
- flightflying, fly, flight, aviation, aircraft
- incenseincense burner, incense stick, incense burning, incense cone, incense holder
- smudgingsmudging, smudge stick, sage bundle, white sage, sacred smoke