Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to animals.
Wiktionary
- adj. rare of or concerning animals
Etymologies
- animal + -ic (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The two lines run through the composition, sometimes parallel, sometimes intertwining, with the second one eventually taking over and ultimately finding its closure in a lush, animalic, fantastically sexy, nocturnal base of amber, musk, civet, patchouli and castoreum.”
Forgotten Chypres: 7e Sense by Sonya Rykiel and Gianni Versace
“What's remarkable is how remarkably filthy the drydown smells on my skin, not animalic-filthy like musk or civet but more like mineral-rooty-filthy...whatever it is in the inoffensive-sounding base of vanilla, amber, marron glace ! and sandalwood that makes it smell up to good I do not know.”
“I wouldn't dare say, animalic...but certain purring, feline grace.”
“I would put it on a level of greatness right up with the animalic monster Yatagan by Caron, but it is not anything like that one at all.”
“Blended with vanilla and rose, the animalic ingredient lends Ubar that ambiguous gourmand/erotic quality that makes one wonder whether one should crave to drink it or to lust after it.”
“While it is technically modern, of course, it is made of natural materials with only a trace of animalic synthetics, being 98.9 % naturally sourced.”
“DSH created these entirely of natural botanicals except for the animalic notes that are unavailable today, so a few synthetics are used for those.”
“The bombshell rose has to have some of the same elements, such as room-clearing sillage, a strong base of wood/leather/spices/vetiver etc. and a big wallop of sex appeal from animalic elements.”
“One could also say that the earthy notes here serve to underscore the "darkness of white flowers", which I usually can't help but admire, rendering their dirtiness in a vegetable-mineral rather than animalic manner.”
“Hénin described the perfume as "animalic and a little bit masculine".”
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