• The female, Tian Tian, also left her scent all round the male's outdoor pen.

    BBC: Edinburgh Zoo pandas: Enclosure swap ahead of mating

  • The dogs picked up her scent for about 100 yards, leading investigators along the road to an area between two homes.

    CNN: Student wrecks car on snowy road, disappears

  • Mrs Gandhi tried to throw the media off her scent when she slipped away to the southern state of Karnataka to register her candidacy for one of the two parliamentary seats she is contesting.

    ECONOMIST: Greater expectations

  • While her body rots encased in its external skeleton, her lingering scent misleadingly tells the colony that all is still well.

    ECONOMIST: The secret life of ants

  • What she remembered most about her mother was the patchouli scent of her skin, underneath which hid a more elusive, dirty smell, an odor that Candy yearned to excavate whenever Sylvie was near.

    NEWYORKER: The Visitor

  • It was not until 2001, however, that Manfred Milinski and Claus Wedekind of the University of Bern wondered whether there was a correlation between the perfume a woman preferred and her own natural scent.

    ECONOMIST: Perfume science

  • She sometimes sprays a few spritzes of scent onto her throw pillows. (It's a good idea to test the spray on the back of the pillow to ensure it doesn't leave an oil spot.) She spritzes just the edges of a pillow, not the center, where people may rest their heads.

    WSJ: Tricks of the Trade: A Well-Scented Home

  • Suddenly Ms. Beaulieu is discussing whether a "luscious ample floral scent" would match her personality and considering the possibility that she needn't flee from all her suitors.

    WSJ: Book Review: Diary of a Nose | The Perfume Lover

  • The crisp, cold scent of carnations envelops her.

    NEWYORKER: Stone Mattress

  • Unaffected by the African-queen-bee's scent, which normally maintains her majesty's monopoly on reproduction, the interloper activated her ovaries.

    ECONOMIST: African honeybees

  • Lusa is sulking inside, hurt and angry after yet another row with her husband, when her nostrils are tickled by the familiar scent of honeysuckle, drifting in through an open window.

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  • Lillian takes a deep breath to calm herself, and she smells her mother beside her, perspiration and green onion and the singed, nutty scent of buckwheat groats tossed from one side of the skillet to the other in a perfect, nonchalant brown arc.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Away'

  • The front fringe of her hair, which the scarf had left uncovered, showed a few gleaming droplets and smelled of rain, another scent from boyhood.

    NEWYORKER: Outage

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