reach one's nostrils

1. 1.

   be smelled; have a strong odor

Questions about reach one's nostrils

What does reach one's nostrils mean?

reach one's nostrils means "be smelled; have a strong odor".

Is reach one's nostrils a common word?

reach one's nostrils is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.