ilang-ilang
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Consumers can choose among scrubs that smell like green-tea patchouli, citrus-mint ilang-ilang or basil lemon verbena.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last spring the four tiny specks of volcanic ash off the coast of Mozambique were invaded by a motley troop of white soldiers of fortune, who took over the hapless islands lock, stock, and ilang-ilang.
From Time Magazine Archive
The benzoate of silver contains 46.6 per cent, of metal; the crystals prepared from the acid of ilang-ilang oil were, therefore, benzoate of silver.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 by Various
As it was convenient to test the above statement by an examination I induced Herr Adolf Convert, a pharmaceutical student from Frankfort-On-Main, to undertake an investigation of ilang-ilang oil in that direction.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 by Various
The girls all received in addition rosaries of sampaguitas, intertwined with roses and ilang-ilang blossoms, to perfume their flowing tresses.
From The Social Cancer by Derbyshire, Charles E.
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