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a strong-smelling substance used in perfume
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Recent Examples of musk
The scent is smoky yet sweet, spicy yet smooth, dark but with an underlying lightness—the result of combining clean white musk with rose, tobacco, suede, and cumin.
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Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
As the temperature surged to two hundred degrees, Solórzano slammed a snowball scented with black pepper and juniper tar onto the rocks, filling the room with a gunpowdery musk, and waved furiously, darting up and down the sauna stairs, tossing his towel in an elegant plume of white.
—Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
The smell of the foyer; the strangely elegant end table propping open the fourth-floor fire door; the weed musk of the stairwell; the bass thumping from neighboring apartments.
—Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
The base of oud, vanilla, musk and ambergris gives it a rich, texture that lingers on the skin.
—Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
As the temperature surged to two hundred degrees, Solórzano slammed a snowball scented with black pepper and juniper tar onto the rocks, filling the room with a gunpowdery musk, and waved furiously, darting up and down the sauna stairs, tossing his towel in an elegant plume of white.
—Leslie Jamison, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
The smell of the foyer; the strangely elegant end table propping open the fourth-floor fire door; the weed musk of the stairwell; the bass thumping from neighboring apartments.
—Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
The base of oud, vanilla, musk and ambergris gives it a rich, texture that lingers on the skin.
—Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for musk
Noun
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The room was filled with a dense, woodsy scent.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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Costco bundles four 16-ounce hand soaps for your holiday scent needs.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
20 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Light incense and whisper the names of those who came before you.—
Lisa Stardust,
Vogue,
23 Oct. 2025
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The scent opens with an intense blast of pink and black pepper paired with incense notes that are honestly quite sharp.—
Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
23 Oct. 2025
Noun
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To celebrate the 10th anniversary of Tiziana Terenzi’s bestselling Kirkè fragrance, the Italian perfume house has introduced Kirkè Overdose — an exclusive reinterpretation of the classic Kirkè scent.—
Fairchild Studio,
Footwear News,
23 Oct. 2025
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Amazon has your favorite classic colognes and perfumes on sale right now.—
Nora Colomer
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FOXNews.com,
22 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Luxury tableware and fragrance brand Tania Bulhões is another international firm that has its eye on Limoges artisan heritage.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
23 Oct. 2025
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Together, these notes create a velvety fragrance that smells like love in a bottle.—
Nora Colomer
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FOXNews.com,
22 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The professional chef, who had never smelled her own feet before, screamed as Barrymore picked up her foot and gave it a sniff.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 Oct. 2025
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As the fragrance wears, a warm, enveloping spice unfolds, inviting a closer sniff.—
Jake Henry Smith,
Glamour,
8 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Now, the host is taking a whiff of the feet of her cohosts, Ross Mathews and Sunny Anderson.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
17 Oct. 2025
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Bieber’s slider spun off the outside corner for a total of 13 whiffs and called strikes.—
Mitch Bannon,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Odor and the French Social Imagination is essentially a book about the declining tolerance for strong smells in 18th and 19th-century France.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
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This can happen because of changes in hormones, taste, and sense of smell.—
Merve Ceylan,
Health,
26 Oct. 2025
Noun
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This airtight container, which is shaped like a real onion, is perfect for storing cut onions without letting the odor take over everything else.—
Nora Colomer
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FOXNews.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Freshen Shoes The next time your stinky sneakers and overworked sock shoes need freshening, fight those unpleasant odors with paper towels.—
Melissa Locker,
Southern Living,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Musk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musk. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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