animalic

animalic

(ˌænɪˈmælɪk)
adj
(Animals) relating to animals
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(The fragrance world is full of strange "animalic" smells, like musks and ambergris, that seem to deepen scents, making them seem sexy.) Jicky was enough of a hit that it was soon joined (in 1921) by Chanel No.
Iris gives it a powdery, musky accord, while aldehydes (hibiscus, bergamot) mixed with slightly animalic notes (leather, sandalwood) give it that beautiful, in-between of sweet and sexy.
In "'Certainly not our sense': Tolkien and Nonsense," Mann characterizes such early work as poems in his invented language Animalic as "full of ludic fun and a giddy enjoyment of pricking the pomposity of polite decorum" (12), exhibiting a "delight in neologisms" (13) that is one of the keys to Tolkien's brand of humor--his sheer delight in words and what can be done with them, his "primal delight in simply the human creation of sound" (15).
A luminous heart of sandalwood dramatically entwines with animalic accord and vetiver for facets of leather and smokiness to tantalise the subconscious.
For personal care products, "Beautiful and Delicious" encompasses scents that have "timeless appeal and classic charm, including rose, jasmine and bouquet florals, as well as men's fragrances with "animalic notes and very masculine accords," including leather, bourbon and wood smoke.
Instead, they mention two languages via description: a language that uses "the names of animals" (i.e., Animalic) and a language "spoken in the island of Fonway" (qtd.
Making comments on the opposition father-son, Iulian Baicus approaches Swift's theory regarding family as a form of animalic complex, which could explain the acid toughness of this relationship: "Starting from Swift's hypothesis, that parental love is animalic, instinctual and starting from the pre-requisites of Freud's psychoanalysis, Kafka discusses the relationships between sons and fathers in terms of social pathology, gives a lucid deconstruction of this relationship, and explains all the nuances of the soul, all the negative feelings hidden in the underground of the modern family".
More precisely, the panelists were asked to evaluate the following aroma attributes animalic, floral, spicy, fatty, green note, marine-like, fresh (waterly), powdery, and leather-like common flavor attributes of green algae.
"Une Charogne" calls for a layered perfume, with a syrupy top note reflecting the false kindness of the poet's invitation, over sweet rose and bitter bourgeons de cassis, grounded in an animalic base of overripe fruit and ambergris.
Analogical descriptions of football thugs as "animalic", "lunatic", or "barbaric" "madmen" (Dunning et al.
(15) The dimensions of imaginary creativity and form, though, differentiate the human acts of cruelty that are created from animalic ones of the chase and the kill.
(66) That animalic perfume, popular in India as of the Gupta period, (67) and thus well established in "classical" textual culture, from literature to medicine, most likely set the precedent for the use of other musk-like materials, and in particular those produced in civets native to the Indian subcontinent (and also Ethiopia and Southeast Asia).