cedarwood

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Base notes of cedarwood, amber and musk offer an aromatic afterglow.

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  1. The durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar and cedarlike trees; especially the wood of the red cedar, often used for cedar chests.

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  1. durable aromatic wood of any of numerous cedar trees; especially wood of the red cedar often used for cedar chests

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  • The little house of glass and cedarwood was an island and a haven in the big bare yard. —  A Demon In My View
  • Similar building materials had been used for this house and the two dwellings on the upper arm, red brick, white stone, cedarwood, but they varied in size and in design. —  The Third Wexford Omnibus
  • There was frankincense and sweet balsam, samonyl and fenogreek, turmeric and taelesin, sandalwood and cedarwood, and four other lesser known but even more powerful ingredients—added in a precise order, each with its unique and individual spell. —  Analog October, 1966
  • It was a quality that made one intensely aware of him, as if with the awareness induced by some drug: aware of his thin, charcoal wrist emerging from a white silk cuff, of the movements of his body under his clothes, of his quiet breathing, of his smell which was of wood:—cedarwood or even sandalwood. —  Clutch of Constables—Ngaio Marsh—Roderick Allyn 25
  • Well … the notes are grapefruit, cardamom, cypress-wood, geranium leaves, juniper berries, cedarwood, leather, and guaiacwood. —  Perfume Posse
 

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