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An opoponax note comes forth right away, than replaced by roses; and only later on the iris notes glide in and create a more violet-y impression.
Scent Systems Ayala Sender 2009
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The overripe fruit is intensified with rubbery, boozy opoponax only to be claimed by an earthy undercurrent.
Archive 2009-03-01 Ayala Sender 2009
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I must be in a moss and opoponax mood, all of the samples in my sample order batch had them except for A.Maze
Mona di Orio Amyitis: Perfume Review Marina Geigert 2009
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The dry down is an almost powdery, perhaps even aldehydic musk reminiscent of opoponax, patchouli and woods combined.
Dark Amber & Ginger Lily Ayala Sender 2009
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The overripe fruit is intensified with rubbery, boozy opoponax only to be claimed by an earthy undercurrent.
Rose Curry Ayala Sender 2009
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The dry down is an almost powdery, perhaps even aldehydic musk reminiscent of opoponax, patchouli and woods combined.
Archive 2009-05-01 Ayala Sender 2009
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The brightness of citrus ever so slowly, ever so sensually enveloped by the powdery darkness of opoponax.
In Which I Finally "Get" Shalimar Marina Geigert 2009
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The brightness of citrus ever so slowly, ever so sensually enveloped by the powdery darkness of opoponax.
Archive 2009-01-01 Marina Geigert 2009
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An opoponax note comes forth right away, than replaced by roses; and only later on the iris notes glide in and create a more violet-y impression.
Archive 2009-02-01 Ayala Sender 2009
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Heroine blends the note with sweetly balsamic opoponax and slightly charred cedarwood.
Dark Tuberoses: Heroine, Narcotic and Trapeze by Strange Invisible Perfumes Marina Geigert 2008
brtom commented on the word opoponax
"She'd like scent of that kind. Sweet and cheap: soon sour. Why Molly likes opoponax. Suits her with a little jessamine mixed. "
Joyce, Ulysses, 13
January 14, 2007
trivet commented on the word opoponax
Sweet myrrh. Its resin can be used as incense/perfume, an antispasmodic, and to treat asthma, hysteria & hypochondria.
March 12, 2007
arby commented on the word opoponax
Stephen King has tried to repurpose this word, c.f. Wikipedia:
* In the novel Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub, the word opopanax is used repeatedly and constantly in a nonsensical fashion, as both a verb and an adjective (e.i "distant cry of the opoponax", the opoponax this, the opoponax that, etc) eventually becoming a symbol for all the strange and incomprehensible events unfolding in the book.
* In another Stephen King novel, Wolves of the Calla (the fifth book in The Dark Tower series), a character holds an "opopanax feather", thus suggesting that it is the name of a bird. No other explanation is given in the story.
July 18, 2007
reesetee commented on the word opoponax
This word should be spelled opopanax, no?
July 18, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word opoponax
Archaic usage on confectio Damocritis.
October 16, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word opoponax
"And the smell, A said, because he sniffs the cheap rose perfume on Gerty's piece of cotton wool, and thinks of the one Molly uses.
Opoponax! B exclaimed. And at the opening of his waistcoat he also smells the lemon scent of his cake of soap."
The House of Ulysses by Julián Ríos, translated by Nick Caistor, p 181
December 27, 2010