German: geruchsarmEnglish translation: low-odour 
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Science - Cosmetics, Beauty | | German term or phrase: geruchsarm | This is one item in a list of possible properties of cosmetics ingredients in a company database. The meaning is obviously something like "weakly smelling", but this gets far fewer Google hits than "geruchsarm", and tends be be used in a negative sense.
Does anyone know if there's a common, possibly technical, English word with neutral connotations for "geruchsarm"?
TIA for your suggestions, David. |
| | | low-odour | Explanation:
I don't guarantee (all) contexts, but there are over 100,000 googles for this...
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Note added at 2 mins (2006-03-15 08:53:53 GMT)
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Hardly technical; but it might fit. |
| Selected response from:
 David Moore
Germany
| Note from asker to answererThanks, David. IMO, this term is best here because it is accurate and, since the context is an internal database, there is no need to use a more flowery term.
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| low-odour
Explanation:
I don't guarantee (all) contexts, but there are over 100,000 googles for this...
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Note added at 2 mins (2006-03-15 08:53:53 GMT)
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Hardly technical; but it might fit.
| David Moore
Germany
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 8
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| Note from asker to answerer| Thanks, David. IMO, this term is best here because it is accurate and, since the context is an internal database, there is no need to use a more flowery term. |
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