Melanie puts almond-scented cream on them every night and her nails are smooth and translucent as lapidaried stones.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Maiden's Grave]

Outside, as we walked down the street, we breathed delicious almond-scented wafts as we passed patisserie windows with perfect lines of beautifully decorated cakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman I Was Born to Be] Reference

There was a lovely garden, with everything in fruit and flower that could be desired; while, in the fields around, grew the aromatic gum, the canidia, or native lilac, with its clusters of purple blossoms, and the wattle, with its waving tufts of almond-scented flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference

He lay face downwards on the earth and pressed it with his hands; he smelt the good smell of the grass and young bracken, and the sweet almond-scented blossom of the furze.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Divine Fire] Reference

She would be so pleased to exchange plants with me, and had I any of the new cactus Dahlias, and so on, until we reached the walk's end, and turned about under a veteran cherry tree that showered us with its almond-scented petals.    From Wordnik.com.  [People of the Whirlpool] Reference

Neighbours might be content to surround their houses with fences of almond-scented oleander, and let the hundred varieties of South African shrubs bloom in wild profusion under the shadowing eucalyptus tree, but his gardens were laid out with well-ordered primness, and in them he delighted to see growing the fragrant flowers that reminded him and his visitors of home life in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Months Besieged The Story of Ladysmith] Reference

Mr Randolph complied, and proceeded: "This is an Australian sketch: you see those curious-looking trees, they are blue and red gums: there is the wattle, too, with its almond-scented flowers, and the native lilac.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nearly Lost but Dearly Won] Reference

  And in the almond-scented vale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Collected Poems] Reference

I reached for a bottle of almond-scented oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog of the Marriage] Reference

And in the almond-scented vale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ballad of Reading Gaol] Reference