The house is littered with dead mice and voles that the cats bring in, and it smells ripe.
The first PCs were shipped in kits and assembled by lonely geeks who smelled ripe and couldn't land a date.
The Institute for Art and Olfaction's executive director, Saskia Wilson-Brown, says another person's armpit smells "ripe, juicy, nutty, almost like toasted coffee".
The Angostura Bitters distillery is out of town, and you smell its ripe, sharp, herbal aroma before you see its colonial balustrades.
A hunk of old Brie, left all day in the glove compartment in a car on a hot summer's day, could not smell more ripe than this absurd sword'n'sandal Roman movie produced by Hollywood veteran Dino De Laurentiis.
The sense of homecoming struck her with the force of an epiphany — "The whole great wheat country fairly glows, and you can smell the ripe wheat as if it were bread baking" — and filled her with artistic purpose, a sense that she'd finally found her subject.
"Some smell like ripe bananas".
There's no candy on sale at the farmers market, but any candy lover can be seduced by the smell of ripe strawberries.
Yet as Carrera and I drove away from PolyKulture Farms, hundreds of linear feet of undulating wood fences on dozens of properties virtually screamed, "We're growing pot here!" I rolled down my window and the skunky smell of ripe marijuana blasted me in the face, a pervasive odor that, to some sensitive noses, is as noxious as pesticide.
