atmosphere vs flavor

atmosphere and flavor both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
atmosphere	Yes	No	No	No
flavor	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, flavor is a hyponym of atmosphere; that is, flavor is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than atmosphere:

atmosphere: a particular environment or surrounding influence
flavor: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people

Other hyponyms of atmosphere include genius loci, gloom, gloominess, glumness, miasm, miasma, feel, feeling, flavour, look, smell, spirit, tone, headiness.

atmosphere (noun)	flavor (noun)
a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing	the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
the mass of air surrounding the Earth	(physics) the six kinds of quarks
the envelope of gases surrounding any celestial body	the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people
a unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade
the weather or climate at some place
a particular environment or surrounding influence

atmosphere (verb)	flavor (verb)
	lend flavor to