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musky

adjective as in like a pungent sweet odor

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The goat was "nasty and mean", smelled "disgusting, musky, rancid", and would chase her young children, knocking them down.

From BBC

What outrageous crimes did the goat, whom she described as “disgusting, musky, rancid,” commit other than needing a bath?

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Running along the trails that whipsaw through the oak forests of the Palo Alto hills , I was hit with a musky, skunky smell that made the hair on my neck stand up.

The plant uses a musky odor to lure fungus gnats that usually feed and lay their eggs on mushrooms into their cup-shaped flowers.

After the last embers of a campfire dim, the musky smell of smoke remains.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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