If the wind is right, the sharp aroma of feedlot wastes literally takes your breath away.
"Have you ever made sauerkraut, or do you always purchase it?" Mrs. Kirkenbauer had asked during their first meeting, and Mary admitted that she'd never done either, without adding that no employer she'd ever worked for had wanted sour cabbage and its sharp aroma anywhere near the floral patterns of their halls, the intricate moldings of their ceilings.
Summer often brings special smells to the city, like the sharp aromas emanating from restaurant Dumpsters, or the hot, foul winds rising from the bowels of the subway.
Whole dried Iranian limes are one of my all-time favourite additions to soups, stews and curries, infusing them with a sweet-sharp aroma that is not only distinct and pungent, but also a bit mysterious.
The Angostura Bitters distillery is out of town, and you smell its ripe, sharp, herbal aroma before you see its colonial balustrades.
The sharp, bitter aroma of cocoa filled the air.
Instead, a sharp, unmistakable aroma, powerful enough to penetrate a rolled-up car window, broadcasts the Martin-Pouret address.
They made a percussive racket – regular clunks, wheezes, and hisses, underlain by a droning hum – and created a distinct aroma, sharp and metallic, suggestive of steam engines and old cars: not instantly recognisable to a British visitor like me, perhaps, but the singular smell of things being made.
When ground, the dried peppercorns provide a somewhat sharper flavor and aroma than the fresher ones.
You tear off a piece of crepe, wrap it in a mustard-green leaf with an aroma so sharp that it made me sneeze, add a chili and some mint, and dip the whole package in peppery, faintly sweet, faintly fishy nuoc cham.
DOMAINE ANDRE BONHOMME, MACON-VIRE, CUVEE SPECIALE 1998: $16 Round, ripe fruit aromas; razor sharp flavors; dry and refreshing.
