verbena

• Yet my muscles seemed rigid, although my brain remained perfectly clear and unimpaired It was that scent of verbena--now terrible and detestable--a million times more potent than any bath soap--which filled my nostrils so that it seemed to choke me. —  The Stretton Street Affair
• 'Yes, Rose,--verbena.' —  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) Boule de Suif and Other Stories
• She already smelt strongly of verbena, and in five minutes she left the room, and he immediately asked me: 'Who is that girl?' —  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 1 (of 8) Boule de Suif and Other Stories
• A light breeze stirred the leaves and gently wafted to us the smell of the pines and the woods, mingled with the sweet odours of the scented geranium, verbena, and nicotine in the rock-girt garden. —  On the Fringe of the Great Fight
• The delicate white verbena, the pure feverfew, mignonette, sweet geranium, white myrtle, the rich-scented heliotrope, were mingled with the late-blossoming damask and purple roses; no yellow flowers, no purple, except those mentioned; even the flaunting petunia, though white, had been left out by the nice hand that had culled them. —  The Wide, Wide World

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