Yes there are quite complex theological debates about this, especially about the original Hebrew meaning of the word, which had similar origins to the Spanish. If you are interested they are fairly easy to research on the web. But I do not think you learn anything of value from it about religion, only about language and how it evolves and get altered over time.

So much of religion may well be caused by mistranslation, bad memories and copying. Imagine that someone once told a story, about how a man and his family survived a flood by building a boat. And how they were wise enough to put a couple each of all their 'domestic' animals in as well. There would not be many, perhaps just a couple of goats and two sheep, not even perhaps in those days chickens. Then what happens if one night a story teller forgets to put in the word domestic ?

Perfume, scent, essence and spirit, also have a similar complex and ramified linkage in their origins. Don't forget for example that spirit has at least three meanings, soul, vigour and the intoxicating part of drink. Which was of course the original meaning of biblical 'wine' both the natural, and the sacramental type. While many people think that the Islamic ban on alcohol may be a mistake, and that the ban on 'wine' may only have originally been intended only for Christian sacramental wine. Many saints bodies were said to give off sweet perfume when they died, because your scent was literally once believed to be part of the soul, therefore most dead bodies smell of sin, therefore bad, while saints smell good, and the fact that you smell at all proves there is a soul.