hair-oil

Her camellia hair-oil treatment planted the seed of the cosmetics business in Korea.

Urban Oasis: Jessica Flint Flint, Jessica 2008

The comfortable armchair into which I had thrown myself bore as many scars as a veteran; the arms were gnashed, the back was overlaid with a thick, stale deposit of pomade and hair-oil from the heads of all his visitors.

The Magic Skin 2007

He wears studs, hair-oil, jewellery, and linen shirt-fronts, very finely embroidered, but not particular for whiteness.

Our Street 2006

Have they not dressing-rooms, hair-oil, hip-baths, and Baden towels?

John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character 2006

His pungent Vitalis hair-oil, and her coyly sweet Lily of the Valley cologne in collision.

Excerpt: The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates 2004

In an incredibly short space of time she examined all his outlying pockets, drawers, and letters; she inspected his socks and handkerchiefs in the top drawers; and on the dressing-table, his razors, shaving-strop, and hair-oil.

A Little Dinner at Timmins’s 2006

Through it all there is a feeling of stage properties, a smell of hair-oil, an aspect of buhl, a remembrance of tailors, and that pricking of the conscience which must be the general accompaniment of paste diamonds.

An Autobiography 2004

Here that flavour of hair-oil, that flavour of false jewels, that remembrance of tailors, comes out stronger than in all the others.

An Autobiography 2004

Colours that were fresh as roses eighty years ago have faded to a feeble pink; nothing remains of all those scents and savours but a faint perfume of faded violets, of stale hair-oil, we know not which.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

Their dull piety and the sickly smell of the cheap hair-oil with which they had anointed their heads repelled him from the altar they prayed at.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003