mustiness

• “The air is clean and damp; I breathe in great lungfuls of the lovely woodland mustiness, the warm earthiness that you find only here.”

  The Guardian: Horse riding in Ashdown Forest

• “Upon unwrapping it recently, I thought I detected a hint of mustiness.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Avoiding Musty Car Covers

• “The Library smelled of paper, umbrellas, furniture polish, warm computers; it had a delectable mustiness.”

  The Guardian: Audrey Niffenegger | Moths of the New World

• “The heating system just popped, I can smell the dog and my shampoo and laundry detergent and a little mustiness as the heater kicks in, the plant on the bookcase has yellowed leaves, and when I brush my hair out of my face where it just fell I can smell the orange oil on my fingers from the blood orange I had at breakfast.”

  i smoke my friends down to the filter

• “Natural flavours and aromas such as floral, fruit, honey and chocolate are better than flavours that come from mistakes made during drying, such as mustiness or moldiness.”

  The Guardian: Can coffee wreck your marriage?

• “But even if the place had been pitch black, I would have known by its smell—a mix of mustiness, dust, and paint—that I was in an old theater, the kind with worn gilt edges and heavy velvet curtains that hung a little longer each year.”

  Simon & Schuster: Dark Secrets 2: No Time to Die the Deep End of Fear

• “She was doing me terrible harm, mixing up my first erotic feelings with Santa Claus and the smells of smoke and alcohol and mustiness, associations that would become my curse forever.”

  Fictionaut: Babies

• “The smell of the lavender was dry and faint, and a mustiness hung in the air like motes of dust.”

  GREEDY • by Stephanie Siebert

• “Even with its lingering mustiness, the empty room felt like a fresh start.”

  Simon & Schuster: Unearthly Asylum

• “Elsa sniffled and stood, eager to escape the mustiness of the old room.”

  Simon & Schuster: Lipstick in Afghanistan

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