Sentence examples for faint perfume from inspiring English sources

A faint perfume drifted out of its woody little body".

NINA L. SHAPIRO, LOS ANGELES The request does carry the faint perfume of opportunism.

When we were first introduced, I could smell the faint perfume of her soap.

There was a faint perfume of the 1950s in the belted calf-length dresses.

You should detect a faint perfume, even if the fruit is rock hard.

In Katherine there is the faint perfume of a life: proper, independent and, in her dying, open to understated discovery.

This means: no greasy hair, well-fitting clothes that suggest a level of modesty that leaves much to the imagination and a faint scent of alluring perfume that will leave men wondering just what makes you smell so good.

On a recent Sunday the apartment was an orderly shell of primed drywall and masonite-protected wood floors, with a faint scent of Verbena home perfume by L'Occitane in the air.

They make a soft sound of hissing, and a faint amber perfume washes into the air.

They were like small, elongated cranberries, but more sour than bittersweet — a deep, oxblood red, with a faint raisiny perfume that seemed to infuse the basmati rice in which they had been cooked.

Smelling, as the New York Times put it in 1895, "like the blending of new-mown hay, the damp woodsy fragrance of a fern-copse, and the faintest possible perfume of the violet", the aromatic allure of ambergris is not difficult to understand.