What she remembered most about her mother was the patchouli scent of her skin, underneath which hid a more elusive, dirty smell, an odor that Candy yearned to excavate whenever Sylvie was near.
Ian Purkayastha, the twenty-four-year-old truffle wunderkind behind Regalis, tries throughout his new autobiography, "Truffle Boy: My Unexpected Journey Through the Exotic Food Underground," to affix the smell of truffles to the page: "cheesy, garlicky, explosive"; "the smells of the soil and the seasons"; "the complex and elusive scent of human desire".
Finally, after coaching two years longer than he ever expected, Randolph smelled the elusive promotion.
Taste, vision and hearing can be quantified, but a systematic description of smell has remained elusive.
But these days, the sweet smell of success is proving elusive as customers walk away from fragrance counters empty-handed.
But there was something else to the smell, a top note that remained elusive.
The dizzying Souffle aux Truffes made me antisocial -- no talking, no touching, eyes closed, only smell and taste at work, the flavor sooo elusive, indefinable and yet irresistible!
So elusive, in fact, that The Washington City Paper ran a Name That Smell competition in the mid-'90s.
But riders looking for a chance to read or relax on the train say that what they see, hear and smell on the trip is making those pleasures more elusive every day.
A naturalist, Maturin wants time to smell the roses, as it were, but Aubrey presses on after the elusive French, who have outrun the English and suddenly threaten the Surprise during a layover in the Galápagos Islands.
