This didn't exactly smell like the good opening he'd been hoping for.
He wasn't exactly smelling his best at the moment.
She did not exactly smell like a rose, either.
Perhaps that's the American way, but it doesn't exactly smell like apple pie to voters stuck in a recession.
In fact, it smelled exactly like freshly washed sheets.
I used to have a wind-up racing car that smelled exactly like that.
"Do you realize that for the next five hours, our urine is going to smell exactly alike?"
No two people smell exactly alike - though there are similarities between races.
By some freak of chemistry they smelled exactly like cumin.
So Sandra and I don't mind if, you know, this pile doesn't smell exactly like strawberries.