There was a musty church hall type aroma mixed in with a sickly sweet smell of ether.

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The sweet smell of mikan oranges mingles with the tang of the ocean.

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He remembered the stench of death that day he dug through the rubble, the sickeningly sweet smell of decomposing bodies.

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Certainly, the sweet smell of Moroccan hashish wafts through the camps.

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The late Marvin Hamlisch, who died last August, was also honoured with the inaugural prize for best original music for his score for the 2002 Broadway musical Sweet Smell of Success, which received its UK premiere at London's Arcola Theatre.

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Initially, it is a soft, foul-smelling matter that floats on the ocean but through exposure to the sun and the salt water over years it turns into a smooth lump of compact rock which feels waxy and has a sweet smell.

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You want it to smell sweet and a bit yeasty.

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Although a rose by any other name may smell just as sweet, the new way of how we define government support to small businesses may not pass the smell test.

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That which we call a rose, by any other name might smell as sweet.

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Tax hikes are not going to smell very sweet to any of us.

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And Shakespeare, it turns out, was wrong about roses: Roses by many other names (as told to blindfolded subjects) do not smell as sweet.

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Both offer tours, tastings and the chance to smell the sweet nectar of the blue agave plants -- the source of tequila -- as they are slowly cooked in huge ovens.

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By any other name would smell as sweet.

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They should smell appetizing and almost sweet.

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If you buy them fresh, look for firm scallops with a dewy sheen and a sweet (not seaweed-y) smell.

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To make up for the nearly unbearable smell, the fibrous, powdery tanfruit has an addicting sweet taste inside.

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Breezes blow the smell of sweat and jasmine through the air, along with the sweet, mournful voice of a man in the next car singing to God.

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