Whatever food had been or was being served put a hot, spicy scent over the air.

There was something else in the air here; a hot, familiar scent.

At that moment he caught the hot scent, rank, overpowering.

They went through the middle room like hounds on a hot scent.

The hot scent of terror on the thick heavy breezes.

It was a hot, acrid scent, and it came from somewhere beyond the house itself.

I could tell by numerous subtle signs, which might have been lost upon anyone but myself, that Holmes was on a hot scent.

He could still smell the sweet, hot scent of her body.

He had his human side, and, except when on a hot scent, he had a remarkably quick eye for a pretty girl.

At the very top of the city the creatures struck a hot scent.