You can smell the filthy air creeping into the plane, a sickly, burning rubber aroma so thick it almost has a taste.
Menthol cigarettes, apart from the aroma of burning tobacco, also have a slight mint aroma as well as a mentholated cooling sensation, akin to that usually associated with cold remedies.
It is still hot - the noon temperature hovers around 45C - and the heady, intoxicating smell of burning frankincense lends its exotic aroma to every souk, mosque and alleyway in the country.
The olfactory profile of A. graveolens extracts obtained was determined by gas chromatography-olfactometry (GC-O), and the most often identified aroma was cheese/bacon for the hydrodistillation oil, whereas in the supercritical extract, the most often identified aroma was burning bush.
Yet, somehow, the Trabant I drove here recently has a primitive charm — along with an aroma of burning oil and smoldering brakes.
Downwind, a reverie of enthusiasts stood in the drifting smoke, savouring the nostalgic aroma of burning coal and a lost age of environmental innocence.
Some also had the aroma of burning matches, an indication of too much sulfur dioxide, which is used as a preservative.
The faint, reassuring aroma of burning wood from a pizza oven is in the air (as is Italian opera music), stacks of firewood add a rustic touch and a spotlight illuminates the dining room's focus, a wall sculpture of a bountiful, food-filled table.
On bright winter days, the aroma of burning mesquite drifts from a fireplace in the library where tea is served every afternoon during season.
