physicky

-- Some of the perfumers of Germany use a tincture of the wood of the _Laurus sassafras_ in the manufacture of hair-washes and other nostrums; but as, in our opinion, it has rather a "physicky" smell than flowery, we cannot recommend the German recipes.

The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851

"Why, it's bitter, and salt, and physicky as a mineral spring," said the major.

Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle George Manville Fenn 1870

"I rather like it," said Bob, with a very physicky face.

Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore George Manville Fenn 1870