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Answer for the clue "One lunatic, our son, holds party presenting no bouquet ", 9 letters:
inodorous

Word definitions for inodorous in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inodorous \In*o"dor*ous\, a. [L. inodorus. See In- not, and Odorous .] Emitting no odor; wthout smell; scentless; odorless. -- In*o"dor*ous*ness , n.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having no odor; "odorless gas"; "odorless flowers" [syn: odorless , odourless ] [ant: odorous ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context archaic English) odourless.

Usage examples of inodorous.

The greenhouses of the lower town had been thoroughly searched, but the only inodorous flowers that had been found were the peonies--great white peonies, enormous tufts of which adorned the table, like a shimmering of white lace.

We always love to touch a cat, but only the insensitive can uniformly welcome the frantic and humid nuzzlings and pawings of a dusty and perhaps not inodorous canine which leaps and fusses and writhes about in awkward feverishness for no particular reason save that blind nerve-centres have been spurred by certain meaningless stimuli.

Some years ago I had a beautiful skin of one offered to me for sale at Darjeeling by some Bhotias, but as it was redolent of musk and other abominations quite foreign to its innocent inodorous self, I declined to give the high price wanted for it.

The spores of Club Moss constitute a fine pale-yellow, dusty powder which is unctuous, tasteless, inodorous, and only medicinal when pounded in all agate mortar until the individual spores, or nuts, are fractured.

It is a white, tasteless, and inodorous substance, used in the manufacture of candles.

Bacalau, seated on felled trees, under the shade of others growing by the river, careless of inodorous vicinity or dust.

It is in colourless, inodorous, scaly crystals, which have a bitter taste.

It is in colourless, inodorous, lamellar crystals, which have a slight pungent taste.

It is in white, tasteless, inodorous, glistening, scaly crystals, insoluble in water.