Perfumed scrap of cloth held by father with worker (8)
I believe the answer is:
fragrant
'perfumed' is the definition.
(similar in meaning)
'scrap of cloth held by father with worker' is the wordplay.
'scrap of cloth' becomes 'rag' (I've seen this before).
'held by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'father' becomes 'fr' (abbreviation as in a priest's title).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'worker' becomes 'ant' (worker is a type of ant).
'rag' going into 'fr' is 'fragr'.
'fragr'+'ant'='FRAGRANT'
(Other definitions for fragrant that I've seen before include "bouquet" , "Having pleasant odour" , "Sweet smelling" , "Pleasantly smelling" , "Sweet-smelling" .)