[…] he thought the odora canum vis—if the passage may be construed—“the agreeable smell of a dog-kennel” superior to any of the esprits sold and professed to be manufactured by Delcroix, or any other eminent scent-maker.
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[…] he thought the odora canum vis—if the passage may be construed—“the agreeable smell of a dog-kennel” superior to any of the esprits sold and professed to be manufactured by Delcroix, or any other eminent scent-maker.
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[…] she recommends the scentmaker to put each kind of scent up in ounce bottles and label it twenty shillings.
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We would arrive and go through the civilities a scentmaker expects, sniffing the latest oil he was compounding, pronouncing it too heavy or too light or too musky, or sometimes, to keep him sweet, praising and buying.
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