mustiness

She was doing me terrible harm, mixing up my first erotic feelings with Santa Claus and the smells of smoke and alcohol and mustiness, associations that would become my curse forever.

Babies Gary Moshimer 2010

The Library smelled of paper, umbrellas, furniture polish, warm computers; it had a delectable mustiness.

Audrey Niffenegger | Moths of the New World 2011

But even if the place had been pitch black, I would have known by its smell—a mix of mustiness, dust, and paint—that I was in an old theater, the kind with worn gilt edges and heavy velvet curtains that hung a little longer each year.

Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

But even if the place had been pitch black, I would have known by its smell—a mix of mustiness, dust, and paint—that I was in an old theater, the kind with worn gilt edges and heavy velvet curtains that hung a little longer each year.

Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

The heating system just popped, I can smell the dog and my shampoo and laundry detergent and a little mustiness as the heater kicks in, the plant on the bookcase has yellowed leaves, and when I brush my hair out of my face where it just fell I can smell the orange oil on my fingers from the blood orange I had at breakfast.

i smoke my friends down to the filter buymeaclue 2009

Upon unwrapping it recently, I thought I detected a hint of mustiness.

Avoiding Musty Car Covers 2011

But even if the place had been pitch black, I would have known by its smell—a mix of mustiness, dust, and paint—that I was in an old theater, the kind with worn gilt edges and heavy velvet curtains that hung a little longer each year.

Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear Elizabeth Chandler 2011

The air is clean and damp; I breathe in great lungfuls of the lovely woodland mustiness, the warm earthiness that you find only here.

Horse riding in Ashdown Forest 2011

Natural flavours and aromas such as floral, fruit, honey and chocolate are better than flavours that come from mistakes made during drying, such as mustiness or moldiness.

Can coffee wreck your marriage? 2011

The smell of the lavender was dry and faint, and a mustiness hung in the air like motes of dust.

GREEDY • by Stephanie Siebert 2008