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And, fair warning, if you’re concerned about smell, those are the items that can be a bit, well, odoriferous.
HOW TO START COMPOSTING AT HOME, EVEN IF YOU DON’T HAVE A YARDKRISTEN HARTKEAPRIL 22, 2021WASHINGTON POST
Dogs become extensions of ourselves, with their acute hearing and especially keen noses expanding our field of perception from the visual world to the odoriferous.
TRAVELING THROUGH THE PANDEMIC IN THE COMPANY OF DOGSWALTER NICKLINDECEMBER 18, 2020WASHINGTON POST
This volatile odoriferous principle has been called the spiritus rector of the plant.
HEADS OF LECTURES ON A COURSE OF EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: PARTICULARLY INCLUDING CHEMISTRYJOSEPH PRIESTLEY
At the instant I smell something, my sense is irritated, or put in motion, by the parts that exhale from the odoriferous body.
GOOD SENSEPAUL HENRI THIRY, BARON D'HOLBACH
These articles they barter with us for odoriferous woods and earth, and our salt of wood ashes.
THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO, OR GUSTAVUS VASSA, THE AFRICANOLAUDAH EQUIANO
All the trees are odoriferous, and some of them emit gums, oils, or other liquors.
THE LETTERS OF AMERIGO VESPUCCIAMERIGO VESPUCCI
Its scenery assumes a thousand different aspects between odoriferous Greenpoint and the solitary grandeur of Montauk.
LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE, VOL. 22, NOVEMBER, 1878VARIOUS
From the ever-green forests of Papantla and Nautla comes the epidendrum vanilla, whose odoriferous fruit is used as a perfume.
MEXICO AND ITS RELIGIONROBERT A. WILSON
This oil consists of two parts, the stearessence and oleiessence; the latter being the more volatile odoriferous portion.
A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, MANUFACTURES AND MINESANDREW URE
They found the far-seeing son of Saturn sitting upon lofty Gargarus, and an odoriferous cloud encircled him around.
THE ILIAD OF HOMER (1873)HOMER
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WORDS RELATED TO ODORIFEROUS

  • ambrosial
  • balmy
  • evocative
  • fragrant
  • odoriferous
  • perfumed
  • pungent
  • remindful
  • reminiscent
  • scented
  • sweet-smelling
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