Word: smells
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...cosmetic and fragrance marketing at Harper's Bazaar, "that the only way to get the scent before the noses of people is to go to them directly." For a person who receives several such magazines in the home or office simultaneously, the effect can be overpowering. "What is that smell, Janet...
...gardeners, at the outset, seem to think that their new passion is profoundly good for them and that the world would be not just a prettier but a healthier and better place if more people joined them in the out-of-doors. There is some theory to this: the smell of basil was long thought to strengthen the heart and take away melancholy, while the scent of violets was considered an aid to digestion. It cannot be an accident that gardeners so often last so long. Cato the Censor, a fine source on growing cabbages, lived to 85, a very...
That someone is Rico, a drug lord from the jungles of Colombia. Rico speaks in a heavy accent and lusts for revenge and power. He dresses in silk suits and has a taste--or a smell--for cocaine...
...makers are bringing their grandchildren and great-grandchildren back to their old neighborhood for a look around or a day at one of the frequent festivals that celebrate the neighborhood's rich heritage. When they close their eyes and take a deep, long breath, they claim, they can still smell the sweet aroma of cigars...
...father of a beer belch that could knock down every drop of loose water in the locker-room shower was, of course, Babe Ruth. "When the Babe left the train for the ball park," relates Pete Rose, as if Rose were not only alive then but could still smell the yeast, "he would remind the porter to have the bathtub full of beer by the time he returned." Rose got the story straight from Waite Hoyt, the late pitcher and alcoholic, who along with Third Baseman Joe Dugan was a pallbearer at Ruth's funeral in August...