pungence

The house was over-warm, and there was a musty smell of over-aged furniture, old leather, and the pungence of mothballs.

Blankness replaced the smell and taste and their absence was as disturbing as a pungence or a poison.

Then the pungence of the fir trees came to her, and the moon without outlined the long window over the chancel.

Then Galbini hit the jackpot with his Taleggio that fills the need for the sharpest, most sophisticated pungence of them all.

For one sandwich prepare 30 or 40 garlic cloves by removing skins and frying out the fierce pungence in smoking olive oil.