olfactive

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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

But the jay enjoys not these olfactive refections.

From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various

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

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 Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir

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

From The World I Live In by Keller, Helen