Sentence examples for mixture of smells from inspiring English sources

It was only seven o'clock in the morning, but any trace of freshness the day had begun with had been snuffed out by the dense mixture of smells — garbage, food, and exhaust — that was the perfume of the city in high heat.

It was a mixture of the smells of raw sheepskins and oak-bark acid that they used in the tanning vats and coal smoke, and it was a characteristic of the town.

As I climbed narrow stairs, I smelled a mixture of moldy odor and makeup smell.

Aware of "the procedures of human sexuality," though after two millennia of chastity the knowledge has become purely theoretical, the neohuman starts to oblige but is "overwhelmed by the pestilential odor that emanated from between her thighs... a mixture of the musty smell of shit and rotten fish".

In the dim light, a number of her grandchildren were sleeping curled under a filthy blanket: the old woman smelt a mixture of fart and the sharp smell of piss.

A mixture of too many different smells may lead to a confusing aroma or something rather bland.

I found the potent mixture of sights, sounds and smells on a busy Saturday afternoon at times intoxicating and at other times revolting.

"Vegan cheese destroys the soul," Gray asserts quite persuasively at one point; while after a shooting party she reports, with an interesting mixture of emotions: "My hands smell of expensive soap and gunpowder".

"This goo mixture smelling of hope so ripe he slathered on French bread and offered to the others".

The RFH has a particular smell, a mixture of floor polish and resin from the bows.

She describes how he gets hold of her, his awful smell, a mixture of tobacco and onions.