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Love, austere, without wanting smell (9)

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I believe the answer is:

odourless

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'smell' is the definition.
(I have seen 'Lacking smell ' mean 'odourless' so perhaps 'smell' could also mean 'odourless')

'love austere without' is the wordplay.
'love' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis).
'austere' becomes 'dour' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'without' becomes 'less' (I've seen this in another clue).
'o'+'dour'+'less'='ODOURLESS'

'wanting' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for odourless that I've seen before include "devoid of smell" , "not raising a stink" , "Lacking smell" , "descriptive of clean air" , "Unscented" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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