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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.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to vanillin or vanillic acid.

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Examples

  • 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

  • There is nothing more comforting that its saccharine, vanillic, milky aroma.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Marina Geigert 2009

  • 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

  • Their scent reveals a riverside terroir that smells ozonic, vanillic, powdery and almond-like.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Michelle Krell Kydd 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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