The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word ESSENCES
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More clues leading to the result ESSENCES
- US stock market regulator head promoted under European principles
- Sense revitalised by the return of dry extracts
- German city with little time to turn up distinctive qualities
- Religious group bottles many perfumes
- Spirits seen in German city church steeple’s entrance
- Concentrates, seeing German town’s protecting church
- Securities and Exchange Commission returns filed after German town makes extracts
- Group of Palestinians caching a hundred volatile substances
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What does ESSENCES mean?
ESSENCES noun- The inherent nature of a thing or idea.
- The true nature of anything, not accidental or illusory.
- Constituent substance.
- A being; especially, a purely spiritual being.
- A significant feature of something.
- The concentrated form of a plant or drug obtained through a distillation process.
- An extract or concentrate obtained from a plant or other matter used for flavouring.
- Fragrance, a perfume.