This is due to the fact that fossilized amber produces very little scent.

The term “ amber ” is loosely used to describe a scent that is warm, musky, rich and honey-like, and also somewhat oriental and earthy.

In 2007 he released 2 fragrances, the range consists of a female fragrance, Hope By Ronan, which is based upon musk and amber scents and a male scent, Believe by Ronan, based on Sicilian Lemon, Lavender and Clary Sage smells.

Labdanum is the main ingredient used when making the scent of amber in perfumery.

Al's Little Cafe was small, dark, narrow, and filled with the mingled scent of beer, tobacco smoke, and Italian cooking.

He was freshly shaved, and if there had been any alcohol in him we could never have missed detecting some scent of it on the massive gusts of his laughter.

The term ' aromatic ' was assigned before the physical mechanism determining aromaticity was discovered, and was derived from the fact that many of the compounds have a sweet scent.

Others believe it was a cross from a miniature French pointer and a pinscher ; others claim that is was developed from the St. Hubert Hound, also a bloodhound, in the 18th century, and still others believe that they were descended from Basset Hounds, based upon their scent abilities and general appearance.

These immediately became fashionable in England ; for many years the scent was known as the " Earl of Oxford's perfume ".

This family was once broken into two subfamilies, Hapalemurinae ( bamboo lemurs and the Greater Bamboo Lemur ) and Lemurinae ( the rest of the family ), but molecular evidence and scent glands similarities have since placed the Ring-tailed Lemur with the bamboo lemurs and the Greater Bamboo Lemur.

It is told that he felt a weight on his head, but he was unable to see what it was when turning around, though upon smelling its sweet scent he realised that it was the weight of episcopal responsibility.

It was normally hunted by being harboured, or found by a ' limer ', or bloodhound handled on a leash, before the pack of hounds were released to pursue it on its hot scent.

Her prayer was answered, and without her perfumed scent, the fields grew tall, and the cows grew fat on the fresh green grass.

Thasian wine ( a light bodied wine with a characteristic apple scent ) was, in particular, quite famous ; to the point where all Thasian coins carried the head of the wine god Dionysos on one side and bunches of grape of the other.

Mr Rimmeil's scent factory was close by as was Burgess's Noted Fish-Sauce Shop.

Synesthesia was a prized experience ; poets sought to identify and confound the separate senses of scent, sound, and colour.

The blast, which left a heavy scent of natural gas, was likened by one witness to a bombing ; it broke nearby windows and could be felt miles away.

The various waters contained several minerals but sulfur was predominant, giving the waters the scent ( and some would say, the flavor ) of rotten eggs.

His hair was the talk of the Army: " long ringlets flowed loosely over his shoulders, trimmed and highly perfumed, his beard likewise was curling and giving up the scent of Araby.

They were originally bred for hunting badgers by trailing scent.

Author Margaret Atwood describes many transgenic creatures such as Pigoons ( though originally designed to be harvested for organs, post-apocalyptic-plague, they become more intelligent and vicious, traveling in packs ), Snats ( snake-rat hybrids who may or may not be extinct ), wolvogs ( wolf-dog hybrids ), and the relatively harmless " rakunks " ( skunk-raccoon hybrids, originally designed as pets with no scent glands ).

Used in the perfume industry, " civet " was originally the name for the scent obtained from this species: Middle French civette, from Old Italian zibetto, from Arabic zabAd, civet perfume.

These vials may have originally simply have bottles of unguents used to cover the scent of decay of St. Remigius ’ corpse during his funeral, but the memory of the two vials miraculously filled in the story of the Baptism of the Moribund Pagan and the unusual, seemingly otherworldly scents issuing from these two vials found buried with St. Remigius combined to suggest to those present that these two vials were the miraculously filled vials of the legend.

** Castoreum, natural scent derived from the beaver

The generic name, Oenanthe, is also the name of a plant genus, the water dropworts, and is derived from the Greek ainos " wine " and anthos " flower ", from the wine-like scent of the flowers.

Today, Tripoli is also known as al-Fayha ' a, derived from the Arabic verb Faha which is used to indicate the diffusion of a scent or smell.

These models assume that users perceive relevance of information based on some measures of information scent, which are usually derived based on statistical techniques that extract semantic relatedness of words from large text databases.

The strong clove scent of sweet basil is derived from eugenol, the same chemical as actual cloves.

" Oenanthe " is derived from the Greek oinos " wine " and anthos " flower ", from the wine-like scent of the flowers.

The name ylang-ylang is derived from Tagalog, either from the word ilang, meaning " wilderness ", alluding to its natural habitat, or the word ilang-ilan, meaning " rare ", suggestive of its exceptionally delicate scent.

As the epithet odoratum suggests, the plant is strongly scented, the sweet scent being derived from coumarin.

Representative ketones, from the left: acetone, a common solvent ; Oxaloacetic acid | oxaloacetate, an intermediate in the Krebs Cycle | metabolism of sugars ; acetylacetone in its ( mono ) enol form ( the enol highlighted in blue ); cyclohexanone, precursor to Nylon ; muscone, an animal scent ; and tetracycline, an antibiotic.

The red wolf will scent mark territorial boundaries to deter intrusion from other wolf packs.

White wines from the island are extremely dry with a strong, citrus scent and mineral and iodide salt aromas contributed by the ashy volcanic soil, whereas barrel aging gives to some of the white wines a slight frankincense aroma, much like Vinsanto.

Another opinion is springbok and other similar antelopes do this to spray scent secreted from a gland near the heel.

Instead, each ant reacts to stimuli in the form of chemical scent from larvae, other ants, intruders, food and build up of waste, and leaves behind a chemical trail, which, in turn, provides a stimulus to other ants.

They use the scent to mark herd territories, which range from 75 to.

The collared peccary ( Pecari tajacu ) or " musk hog ," referring to the animal's scent glands, occurs from the southwestern United States into South America and the island of Trinidad.

Aside from vocal communication, dingoes communicate like all domestic dogs via scent marking specific objects ( for example, Spinifex ) or places ( waters, trails, hunting grounds, and so forth ) using chemical signals from their urine, feces, and scent glands.

Some Cornish Rexes also have a mild cheesy smell peculiar to the breed ; this odor comes from scent glands in the paws.

There are some reports that they can be repelled by the scent of wood from juniper and cedar, by lavender, or by other natural oils.

The most practical way to start describing a perfume is according to the elements of the fragrance notes of the scent or the " family " it belongs to, all of which affect the overall impression of a perfume from first application to the last lingering hint of scent.