It's often masked

Usage examples of odor.

Stephanotis, passiflora, tuberose, alamanda, Bougainvillea, and other trailers of gorgeous colors, climb over everything, and make the night heavy with their odors.

If allowed to stand in a test tube, the odor of valeric aldehyde will first be noticed, then that of amyl valerate, and lastly that of valeric acid.

His garments had once been fine, but judging by their worn appearance and the sour odor that rose from them, Alec suspected their owner to be a denizen of the northern Ring.

You see, ambergris is the most effective odor fixative that has ever been found.

She smelled the ammoniac odor of the big beast, even as she plunged, face down, into a tumble of leaf-drift.

She smelled an ammoniac odor, and saw a huge midnight-blue form wide and tall enough to block the corridor.

Aniline when pure is a colorless liquid, possessing a rather ammoniacal odor.

Odier has known a woman who was affected with aphonia whenever exposed to the odor of musk, but who immediately recovered after taking a cold bath.

It was a rough leveling of the debris, upon which several small objects lay carelessly scattered, and at one corner of which a considerable amount of gasoline must have been spilled lately enough to leave a strong odor even at this extreme superplateau altitude.

The flower-beds were edged with box, which diffused around it that dreamy balsamic odor, full of antenatal reminiscences of a lost Paradise, dimly fragrant as might be the bdellium of ancient Havilah, the land compassed by the river Pison that went out of Eden.

The bear passed close enough to my window that I could smell the hot rank odor of her fur, and hear her heavy chuffing breath.

She had lost the odor of chypre now and smelled only of sweet girlish flesh.

Blade noticed what he had never noted before-an odor of chypre about the man.

Her sense of smell, so heightened now that it might have been a new sense altogether, had picked up the coolth of running water off this way, dimmed by the green odor of the grass.

The dark hall, the odor of dead rodents, peculiarly the smell of cosmoline, wetted burned paper.