It's not overpoweringly sweet but almost impossible to imagine within 50 yards of anyone shopping at Nicole Farhi.

Marionberry Jam by Misty Meadow has a lovely winy flavor and is not overpoweringly sweet.

Their taste is overpoweringly sweet, so much so that like the drug, it's probably a defense mechanism to keep animals from wanting to eat them.

The result is a gorgeous candied orange, still slightly sour, not at all bitter (one eats the peel), not overpoweringly sweet, and the perfect complement, both visually and gastronomically, to the chocolate caramel.

The Major appears ill and carries a handkerchief with an overpoweringly sweet odor.

Around her is the faint scent of trilia and erhenflower, a combination much gentler than erhenflower alone, and not as overpoweringly sweet as trilia alone.

They loaded me with branches of lemons and bunches of stocks and carnations - overpoweringly sweet.

Sandalwood chairs inlaid with ivory, added their scent to that of the roses, keeping it from being overpoweringly sweet.

There was an overpoweringly sweet smell everywhere.

The flowers were unwholesomely large, their petals bore a lethal pallor or a sanguinary scarlet; and their perfumes were overpoweringly sweet or fetid.