The place had a harsh, clinical smell and looked more like a hospital than an interrogation room.

There was the harsh, brackish smell again, like a sour sea.

None of the harsh wild smell of the sea.

Valentine began to cough at the harsh smell of burning rubber filling the room, causing his eyes to water.

And for Klindz the only disappointment was the smell, the beautiful, harsh smell of this man's fear had faded.

"Sometimes it's fun," he said, as the harsh smell of gunpowder still lingered.

There was a harsh, tarry smell, strong enough to mask the natural odour of the animals.

A harsh, bitter smell filled the air, but nothing scuttled down the steps or oozed from the walls.

The chauffeur lit a cigarette with an electric lighter and a harsh smell of tobacco came back to me softly in the evening.

The harsh smell might have warned me, if I hadn't been relying on borrowed army equipment, instead of my own senses.