olfactive

Example Sentences

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It’s awful,’ ” said Pierre Aulas, now the olfactive artistic director of Thierry Mugler, who worked for another company at the time but was in the room.

From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2011

The irritative ideas of smell from the increased action of the olfactive nerve excite our attention.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

It is the will-o'-the-wisp of my olfactive experience.

From The World I Live In by Keller, Helen

Yet man has a very considerable set of olfactive chambers within the nostrils and has large olfactory nerves.

From More Science From an Easy Chair by Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir

The sensations of smell which cheer, inform, and broaden my life are not less pleasant merely because some critic who treads the wide, bright pathway of the eye has not cultivated his olfactive sense.

From The World I Live In by Keller, Helen