The only light came from a fire flickering in a ring of stones, and a peculiar scent filled the air.

He could smell the peculiar scent of antiquity about it.

The peculiar scent of the tea plants, young green shoots not yet ready for the harvest, laced the air.

Just a few bulbs in the ground are enough to provide the peculiar scent, which comes from the foliage as well as the flower.

Each grave has its own peculiar scent, just as each living body does.

As the rickety old engine started up, Marlee caught a whiff of a peculiar scent.

The air tasted like the cabin air, though the peculiar scent was much stronger.

And all through the air, a peculiar scent, like an unfamiliar perfume.

The peculiar scent did not come again.

There was a peculiar scent in the room, as if somewhere out of their sight a fire had been lit.