The fresh, starchy smell of ironed clothes, mixed with beeswax polish and the faintest reminder of coffee, drifted through the room.

The unforgettable smell of Play-Doh, mixed with the aroma of apple juice, permeates the air as if conjured up by some Proustian memory.

But the smell of age, now mixed with sickness, gave him pause.

It was beautiful, though very young, with a smell almost like grape juice mixed with the cedar scent typical of a fine Pauillac.

Again the smell of excrement mixed with blood.

They burned his campaign leaflets and placards, and the acrid smell mixed with stinging tear gas as demonstrators threw small gas grenades at the platform.

The smell of rotted flesh, mixed with roses, reached him.

It consisted of a burnt smell of baked earth, mixed with the odours of wild rosemary and thyme, still with the tang of the sea.

A dank smell, mixed with a faint zoo stench, came out into the room.