For instance, chemists have not yet figured out an easy way to make a synthetic patchouli scent.

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Somewhere between pepper-spray and patchouli is a middle ground, and that ground should be safe for pregnant women to sit on without risk.

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Teens in mini skirts, with impossibly long legs and even longer hair, wind their way toward the changing rooms, trailing glitter, chiffon and the scent of patchouli.

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If Turin wanted to work on this using his algorithm, he'd start with one of patchouli's components--say, a molecule that smells earthy or woody--and try varying its structure in small ways.

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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.

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As far as I could tell from my crisis visit home (Lucy smelling of patchouli and sobbing as she crushed me in her suntanned arms), the Bishop was prepared to bow his head and take whatever the heavens had prepared for him.

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Perusing the five-star reviews in Perfumes, it seems that a good perfume is surprising, individual, abstract, witty, maybe ironic, complex (for example, Thierry Mugler's Angel perfume works because of the juxtaposition of cotton candy and flowers with a masculine patchouli), long-lasting, transformative (it somehow makes the wearer feel different).

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