Word: patchouli
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...novel--a rich attachment to vulgarity, including a deadening level of profanity and a comically exaggerated preoccupation with smells. Clearly, Weiss wants the reader to accept Burry as a fatal temptress. But it does not help to be told early on that her aroma is "part B.O. and maybe patchouli...
...like Elvis Presley's bass from Heartbreak Hotel, the Mellotron from Strawberry Fields Forever and a Megaroids video game. Next to the studio is a cozy kitchen featuring a spread of Linda's veggie foods. Upstairs is a retreat for writing amid the scent of fresh flowers and patchouli...
...years ago, Paul Freelob ran the neighborhood head shop. His hair was shoulder length, and he called himself Paul Free. He sold rolling paper, black-light posters and patchouli oil across the counter, and something a little more interesting under it. He wore biker boots, denims contoured by Levi, not Seventh Avenue, and diamond-shaped shades in wire frames. His favorite band was the Doobie Brothers, and he could sing all the words to Listen to the Music...
...seem rather to be the products of wistful affection. They reflect the same gee-whiz obsession with glamour and stardom that led Warhol to create the legendary, shifting entourage of drag queens, raucous juvenile models and human parrot fish who, entering a room in a cloud of sequins and patchouli, take the strain of flamboyancy off the Master's back. Warhol's id vanishes behind his circus as his ego does behind his paintings...
...lets Guy Laroche run up her dresses. She owns a dozen fur coats, a Goya, a Renoir, a Fiat and a Rolls-Royce. She applies her perfume to her clothes, rather than to her skin. Her favorite scent is a mixture of geraniol, rhodinol, cedryl, acetate, jasmine, geranium, santal, patchouli, oak moss and Tibetan musk. It is called "Madame Rochas...