Perfumery scent

Usage examples of musk.

If an incision is made in the bark of the stems, and the crown of the root, at the commencement of spring, a resinous gum exudes with a special aromatic flavour as of musk or benzoin, for either of which it can be substituted.

Englishmen strolled into the cool, dark mosque, where heavy Eastern scents of musk and benzoin had lain all night like fugitives in sanctuary, and where the roof was held up by cypress poles instead of marble pillars, as in the grand mosques of big cities.

A red silk curtain scented with rose oil, musk, sperm, rectal mucus, ozone and raw meat goes up on a hospital ward of boys covered with phosphorescent red blotches that glow and steam the fever smell off them, shuddering, squirming, shivering, eyes burning, legs up, teeth bare, whispering the ancient evil fever words.

There was an almost turpentinic musk to the fear in it as it mixed with the rain and sweat, and she shivered and drew her blunter close.

Along with the brimstone reek of their fodder and droppings, he also inhaled the strong reptilian musk that was their own distinctive scent.

Soon they were all displaying ferociously, hooting and scraping musk over their long tails.

In a clearing, a garlanded courtesan of the Kauchique littoral danced the Dance of the Fourteen Silken Movements to the musk of flutes.

Then Dallas would shovel the opened oysters onto picnic tables covered with newspapers and the perfume of those washed-down mollusks gave off a silvery, slightly metallic musk of a rained-on acre of spartina.

Hopital de la Charite affected with chronic peritonitis, who some time before her death exhaled a very decided odor of musk.

He was about to glance into the hayloft, to satisfy his sentimental vision of how it would have looked to him and Joyce, a cavern of country fragrance, a musk of dead summers still banked there in pourried mounds.

It was a mingling of wild flowers and a warm kittenish musk that roused him strangely and added to his sense of well-being.

Strong, masculine arms scooped her up and held her against a body that smelled like a breath of fresh night air underlaid with a masculine musk that was familiar.

Riane gave a little moan of longing, and for a delicious moment the kiss consumed them both in a perfumed cloud of citrus and musk.

As she lumbered clumsily toward Kethry, the sorceress got a whiff of an unpleasant reekhalf unwashed clothing and stale sweat, half an animallike musk.

The tang of grape bubblegum mixes with the musk of drugstore aftershave.