Word: attar
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...people who would keep the League going and save Europe from unpleasant complications by letting Il Duce have his war under some sweeter name, but that His Majesty's Government are not that sort of people. Few days later, when the odor of oil arose, it was like attar of roses in the black nostrils of peasant-born Pierre Laval...
...Since it requires more than two tons of roses to make one pound of attar of rose, synthetic perfumes are usually much cheaper than natural ones. This fact has led perfume-seekers into strange, malodorous places. Said Professor Bogert: "Castor oil is the raw material for certain scents. One of the components of jasmine flower odor, when concentrated, is as fetid and repulsive as the odor of a civet...
...great vegetarians. . . . He lived on fruits and vegetables almost exclusively and never drank alcoholic drinks, preferring water with a little sugar in it. . . . His use of perfumes was his only bad habit. All in all he was a clean, religious man. But he used to spray himself profusely with attar of roses and essence of black currants...
Brooklyn, N. Y., makes attar of roses; Bulgaria suffers. Flushing, N.Y., makes citronella; to Java's detriment. Newark, N. J., makes vanillin against vanilla from Seychelle, Mexico and Reunion.† New Jersey ivroid harms African ivory, its bakelite, Central American mahogany. Delaware makes amber (East Prussian commodity) substitute...
...years inhabited, a delicatessen store. But a job at a perfume counter was her ideal. This she gratifies, but when her ambitious lover buys the very store in which Pappa Schmidt made $80,000, as the financial basis for their future marriage, limburger suddenly takes on the fragrance of attar of roses, pickles turn to rosettes, and Fernie, delighted, helps out in the store and back of it. Hoch die Delikatessen...