Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or derived from vanilla or vanillin.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Related to or derived from vanilla.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, vanilla or vanillin; resembling vanillin; specifically, designating an alcohol and an acid respectively, vanillin being the intermediate aldehyde.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
vanillin orvanillic acid .
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Examples
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They may be thought of as “Oriental” blends, a category that encompasses many different perfumes, but they are not the sweetly ambery/vanillic scents you may find listed as Orientals among modern mainstream fragrances.
DSH Perfumes Part Four: Roses and Resins Marina Geigert 2009
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There is nothing more comforting that its saccharine, vanillic, milky aroma.
Archive 2009-05-01 Marina Geigert 2009
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Heliotropin is a molecule found in vanilla and smells floral, vanillic, and slightly almond-like there is a lot of heliotropin in Tahitian vanilla beans.
Royal Paulownia: The Perfume of Spring Along the Hudson Michelle Krell Kydd 2009
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Their scent reveals a riverside terroir that smells ozonic, vanillic, powdery and almond-like.
Archive 2009-05-01 Michelle Krell Kydd 2009
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If you have a keen sense of smell, try sniffing beneath the chocolate, caramel and vanillic elements in the Thierry Mugler classic Angel; you will detect a methyl benzoate effect.
Strange Fruit: The Flavor and Fragrance of Feijoa Michelle Krell Kydd 2009
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Their scent reveals a riverside terroir that smells ozonic, vanillic, powdery and almond-like.
Royal Paulownia: The Perfume of Spring Along the Hudson Michelle Krell Kydd 2009
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It is very perfumey at first: violet accord that is both powdery like orris and wet and woody like cassie underlined by noticeable dosage of heliotropin - that vanillic molecule that makes heliotrope smells so sweet, almondy and plasticky all at once.
Archive 2009-01-01 Ayala Sender 2009
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It is very perfumey at first: violet accord that is both powdery like orris and wet and woody like cassie underlined by noticeable dosage of heliotropin - that vanillic molecule that makes heliotrope smells so sweet, almondy and plasticky all at once.
Intimacy Ayala Sender 2009
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If you have a keen sense of smell, try sniffing beneath the chocolate, caramel and vanillic elements in the Thierry Mugler classic Angel; you will detect a methyl benzoate effect.
Archive 2009-01-01 Michelle Krell Kydd 2009
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Heliotropin is a molecule found in vanilla and smells floral, vanillic, and slightly almond-like there is a lot of heliotropin in Tahitian vanilla beans.
Archive 2009-05-01 Michelle Krell Kydd 2009
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