There happen to be much more pleasant-smelling things than catnip. From Wordnik.com. [Top Dogs and Pet Products] Reference
The result was a pleasant-smelling and remarkably buoyant floor covering. From Wordnik.com. [Mission to Moulokin]
On the way back, she stopped at a dry sunny bank and cut some pleasant-smelling purple hyssop flowers. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
This collar is a pleasant-smelling herbal alternative to stinky commercial flea collars made with harsh chemicals. From Wordnik.com. [Knitting for Dogs] Reference
He tried several other pleasant-smelling jars, noting each time that the scent was as close to the real thing as he could recall. From Wordnik.com. [State Of War]
They had little medicinal or food value, but the pleasant-smelling flowers pleased her, and she had a fleeting notion to pick some. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
I squirted some of the (quite pleasant-smelling) shampoo into the sink and swirled it around to get that "jacuzzi" effect going on. From Wordnik.com. [worst. cat. parent. ever.] Reference
This pleasant-smelling, soothing oil can be made ahead and stored in your herbal medicine chest, ready for use at the first sighting of a fungal rash. From Wordnik.com. [Gentle Healing for Baby and Child] Reference
Often, the products are inappropriately stored in drinking glasses or unlabeled containers, and they may be attractive and pleasant-smelling, like furniture polishes. From Wordnik.com. [Hydrocarbon Ingestion] Reference
Now I've been given an excuse to take his threats literally and drive my mom's pleasant-smelling, smooth-driving, properly-heated, CD stereo-equipped bad-ass mobile down the parkways of Long Island. From Wordnik.com. [nspblues Diary Entry] Reference
Create a calming, pleasant-smelling blend of 10 drops essential oils (see choices mentioned above) and combine with 1 ounce unscented vegetable or nut oil (almond, sunflower, apricot kernel, grapeseed). From Wordnik.com. [Gentle Healing for Baby and Child] Reference
Rare or threatened trees in the area include jaborandi (Pilocarpus microphyllus), mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla), and Dicypellium caryophyllatum, a timber tree whose bark contains a pleasant-smelling essential oil. From Wordnik.com. [Tocantins-Araguaia-Maranhão moist forests] Reference
The sun was shining full on the yellowish plastered house front at the far end, a carpenter in his workshop was sawing pleasant-smelling wood, and in a carriage a child was sleeping, its mother looking down from time to time from a second-floor window. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret's Revolver]
Ether leaves a pleasant-smelling resin, somewhat resembling camphor. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants] Reference
Bob being set to help by unlacing the string from the pleasant-smelling. From Wordnik.com. [Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer] Reference
When you get 'there' you change in to your pleasant-smelling society clothes. From Wordnik.com. [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference
The result makes a good, slow-burning, though not very pleasant-smelling torch. From Wordnik.com. [Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure] Reference
Citronellal, despite being pleasant-smelling (for humans, anyway), causes a rash when it comes into contact with skin. From Wordnik.com. [innovations-report] Reference
The Car-puccino has a top speed of 60 mph, ensuring the 210-mile journey will be slow and expensive, yet pleasant-smelling. From Wordnik.com. [Techworld Australia News]
For longer lasting colour Sienna X Sunless Tanning in Extremely Natural is a pleasant-smelling good bet (£19.95, www. sienna-x.co.uk). From Wordnik.com. [Evening Standard - Home] Reference
The roots, or rhizome, of the sweet flag, yield by distillation a pleasant-smelling oil; 1 cwt. of the rhizome will thus yield one pound of oil. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants] Reference
After an experiment with one pleasant-smelling red-skinned specimen, which gave him excruciating cramps, he left the whole race of fungi severely alone. From Wordnik.com. [The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life] Reference
I am cute and healthy and pleasant-smelling (usually) and ambitious and smart and lovable and fun and stylish and friendly and outgoing and categorically not icky. From Wordnik.com. [Bark Bark Woof Woof] Reference
The restrooms are immaculate, unusual (a drunken blunder into a men's room resulted in a confused Shanghiist discovering a waterfall-like urinal), and pleasant-smelling. From Wordnik.com. [Shanghaiist] Reference
The pleasant-smelling essential oil is extracted from the leaves of a tree native to Australia, Melaleuca alternifolia, and has been shown to have both antibacterial and cosmetic properties. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
The turpentine, different from that of the pine trees, is a kind of pleasant-smelling oil, obtained by making incisions in the bark, and is widely used in the East to flavour wine, sweet-meats, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
The covering was taken from her, snowflakes touched her cheek, a lantern shone in her eyes, and she was lifted and carried into a warm, pleasant-smelling place from which were magically and completely banished all sound and bitterness of storm. From Wordnik.com. [The Branding Iron] Reference
Their collars were wide and white; inside the pockets of their overcoats were glistening dancing-pumps, wrapped in tissue-paper; inside their jacket pockets were pleasant-smelling new white gloves, and inside their heads solemn timidity commingled with glittering anticipations. From Wordnik.com. [Penrod and Sam] Reference
People asking for change for a dollar got a much better response outside a pleasant-smelling bakery than a neutral-smelling hardware store; unwitting subjects in an experiment who found a dime in a phone booth were far more ready to help someone pick up dropped papers than those who hadn't had that tiny piece of good luck. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The fresh and amazingly pleasant-smelling air around her didn’t appear to be life threatening. From Wordnik.com. [Sexy Beast IV]
“The fumes of the pleasant-smelling deodorant were so intense that they drifted up to the ceiling and set off a fire detector,” said Volker Buttgereit of the Buesum police force…”Hopefully the girls will get by with a little less spray next time,” said Buttgereit. From Wordnik.com. [Blame Germany! « raincoaster] Reference
Fight the dry, pleasant-smelling power!. From Wordnik.com. [CAPTION THIS: Sweaty Betty | Best Week Ever] Reference
That long, quiet Sunday, when, I remember, the sun never came out all day, but the whole earth and sky melted together in a soft, grey haze; when we lay on the common and heard church-bells ringing, some distant, some near; and, after all was quiet, talked our own old sabbath talks, of this world and the world to come; when, towards twilight, we went down into the beech-wood below the house, and sat idly there among the pleasant-smelling ferns; when, from the morning to the evening, he devoted himself altogether to my comfort and amusement -- to perfect which required of him no harder duty than to be near me always; -- that. From Wordnik.com. [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference
Then they paraded before him through lesser apartments and across terraces, till they came to a great hall; loftier and more spacious than any he had yet beheld, with fountains at the two ends, and in the centre a tree with golden spreading branches and leaves of gold; among the leaves gold-feathered birds, and fruits of all seasons and every description -- the drooping grape and the pleasant-smelling quince, and the blood-red pomegranate, and the apricot, and the green and rosy apple, and the gummy date, and the oily pistachio-nut, and peaches, and citrons, and oranges, and the plum, and the fig. Surely, they were countless in number, melting with ripeness, soft, full to bursting; and the birds darted among them like sun-flashes. From Wordnik.com. [The Shaving of Shagpat; an Arabian entertainment — Complete] Reference
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