He stood in the shadow of a magnolia tree abloom with bright, saucer-shaped, purple-pink flowers that exuded a strong, sweetish scent.

But it was bright, glowing to outshine the moon with the green phosphorescence of the depths, and it had a sweetish scent, and it made a high fizzing kind of sound that might have been speech.

It had a sweetish scent, like icing sugar, like childhood birthday cakes, that mingled with the winey perfume of the elders.

Its sweetish scent, reminiscent of vanilla and green olives, has caused it to be used in the manufacture of perfumes as a source for Balsam.

A sweetish cloying scent lingered in the atmosphere.

It was very dark when the curtain fell back, and there was a sweetish scent, some perfume that threatened to churn Mardoch's stomach again.

Fog, your lovely spell (and occasional sweetish scent) is everywhere.

Known to the Māori of New Zealand as kareao or pirita, a concentrated decoction of the supplejack root has a sweetish sarsaparilla-like scent and flavour and is soothing to the throat.

Her nostrils caught a sweetish scent of perfume, and she recognized it as the odor that had permeated her bedroom four days before.