pungent

Why chopping garlic changes its aromaFreshly peeled garlic gives off only a faint smell, but as soon as you slice, smash or chop the cloves the odor becomes pungent and so strong that it can be hard to wash off your fingers.

Regardless, that goes double for a hippy isle full of expats and pungent pot known as Bocas del Toro.

Their free clinic in central Athens is housed in a shabby apartment that smells of feverish bodies and pungent medicine.

On move-in day I opened the front door to a pungent, musky odor of pure mold.

Women who use the pungent coverup make less money than fully topless dancers, but many seem to prefer the alternative.

New hires are also warned not to wear perfume or aftershave that is too pungent.

It curled and twisted in the embers as if it had been a living thing; a puff of smoke, a pungent odour, and it was gone.

It was made from the fibres of the leaves, and was considered among many to be the finest kind of the "pungent dust."

Frederick the Great and Napoleon both loved and used large quantities of the "pungent dust."

In its pure state it is a transparent and colourless gas, having a peculiar pungent smell, and highly soluble in water.

He succeeded, however, and soon was puffing clouds of pungent smoke into the air with the utmost contentment.