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
It has been from time to time suggested that the end organs of the olfactory nerves may be excited, not by chemically active particles, but by "rays," olfactive undulations comparable to those of light.
From More Science From an Easy Chair by Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester
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 Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester
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 Helen Keller
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 Erasmus Darwin
