Usually means: Sweet smell indicating holy death.
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  1. odour of sanctity: Collins English Dictionary
  2. Odour of Sanctity, Odour of sanctity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  3. Odour of Sanctity: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  4. odour of sanctity: TheFreeDictionary.com
  5. odour of sanctity: Wiktionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (odour of sanctity)

noun:  (chiefly Christianity, historical, especially Middle Ages) A sweet smell, usually likened to that of flowers, said to be emitted by the bodies of saints during their life, or especially at or after death.
noun:  (figurative)
noun:  A person's reputation for, or state of, holiness.
noun:  (chiefly humorous or ironic) A (supposed) general aura of goodness or virtue.

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