Flowers are white, sometimes pink, and are clove-scented. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
It is a clove-scented currant or in Latin, Ribes Odoratum. From Wordnik.com. [Currant events] Reference
Minas had treated us to a Nemean red, rich without being too heavy, clove-scented and appealing. From Wordnik.com. [See Delphi and Die]
Kretek is a clove-scented Indonesian cigarette- a la Harvard Sq., or Washington Sq. in 1960-70, my sweet. From Wordnik.com. [Other People’s Perfume Part I: Smoke] Reference
I always get the same thing ... roast chicken biryani and clove-scented basmati pilaf with cashews, apricots and date chutney. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference
He's just bought one-way tickets to the clove-scented island of Pemba, off the coast of Tanzania, and Glynis can make up her mind to join him or not. From Wordnik.com. [A Novel Tallies The Real Cost Of Health Care] Reference
From the clove-scented interior of Bali to Thailand's wine country to the mountains and fiords of New Zealand's South Island, Weekend Journal takes readers on the road. From Wordnik.com. [Shifting Gears] Reference
Quieter drills and citrus-scented candles help mask the typical sounds and smells of dentistry; some practices have stopped using eugenol, the clove-scented antiseptic; others even bake cookies to introduce a soothing aroma. From Wordnik.com. [More Dentists Taking Pains to Win Back Fearful Patients] Reference
Then he crept quietly up to his dressing room and returned with a bottle of the clove-scented hair lotion. From Wordnik.com. [The Price of Things] Reference
This was a languid afternoon of compelling rhythms and music easy to listen to - and hot enough to conjure up vanilla - and clove-scented beaches with swaying palm trees. From Wordnik.com. [iToot Stream] Reference
Buttery, clove-scented white rice is the perfect accompaniment to saucy dishes such as palak gosht (spinach with goat), dal palak (spiced lentils with spinach), and chana masala. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
The homemade charcuterie offers a sampling of the old-school artisan updates this kitchen is capable of, from the coarsely-ground cervelat salami with pistachios and garlic to the clove-scented pâté. From Wordnik.com. [Philly.com - Latest Videos] Reference
There was also half a chicken, some clove-scented Graubündenfleisch, four large white rolls, crisp as an Engadine cook can make them, half a pound of butter in each -- O excellent Gutwein -- O great and judicious Gutwein!. From Wordnik.com. [Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895] Reference
Better yet, the whole thing would be brought to table and a stab through the puffed up pastry, made, if my wife - a Nevada hunter's daughter - is right, with bear fat, would liberate a clove-scented sugary steam that would draw you in. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference
Nowhere do roses blow as they blow near the sea, nowhere have I breathed such perfume as I breathed that drowsy afternoon in Paradise, where in every door-yard thickets of clove-scented pinks carpeted the ground and tall spikes of snowy phlox glimmered silver-white in the demi-light. From Wordnik.com. [The Maids of Paradise] Reference
I am arranging the caryophylls, which I mass broadly into "Clarissa," the true jagged-leaved and clove-scented ones; "Lychnis," those whose leaves are essentially in two lobes; "Arenaria," which I leave untouched; and "Mica," a new name of my own for the pearlworts of which the French name is to be Miette, and the representative type. From Wordnik.com. [Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston] Reference
(The Dutch liked to take their tea in the afternoon, with sweets, like clove-scented. From Wordnik.com. [Slate Magazine] Reference
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