Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to animals.
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- adjective rare of or concerning
animals
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Examples
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DSH created these entirely of natural botanicals except for the animalic notes that are unavailable today, so a few synthetics are used for those.
Archive 2009-03-01 Marina Geigert 2009
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The bombshell rose has to have some of the same elements, such as room-clearing sillage, a strong base of wood/leather/spices/vetiver etc. and a big wallop of sex appeal from animalic elements.
Archive 2009-03-01 Marina Geigert 2009
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What's remarkable is how remarkably filthy the drydown smells on my skin, not animalic-filthy like musk or civet but more like mineral-rooty-filthy...whatever it is in the inoffensive-sounding base of vanilla, amber, marron glace ! and sandalwood that makes it smell up to good I do not know.
Archive 2009-03-01 Marina Geigert 2009
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While it is technically modern, of course, it is made of natural materials with only a trace of animalic synthetics, being 98.9 % naturally sourced.
Archive 2009-03-01 Marina Geigert 2009
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The bombshell rose has to have some of the same elements, such as room-clearing sillage, a strong base of wood/leather/spices/vetiver etc. and a big wallop of sex appeal from animalic elements.
Seriously Sensual: Montale Aoud Queen Rose Marina Geigert 2009
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I would put it on a level of greatness right up with the animalic monster Yatagan by Caron, but it is not anything like that one at all.
Archive 2009-05-01 Marina Geigert 2009
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What's remarkable is how remarkably filthy the drydown smells on my skin, not animalic-filthy like musk or civet but more like mineral-rooty-filthy...whatever it is in the inoffensive-sounding base of vanilla, amber, marron glace ! and sandalwood that makes it smell up to good I do not know.
Tom Ford Champaca Absolute: Perfume Review Marina Geigert 2009
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The two lines run through the composition, sometimes parallel, sometimes intertwining, with the second one eventually taking over and ultimately finding its closure in a lush, animalic, fantastically sexy, nocturnal base of amber, musk, civet, patchouli and castoreum.
Forgotten Chypres: 7e Sense by Sonya Rykiel and Gianni Versace Marina Geigert 2009
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I wouldn't dare say, animalic...but certain purring, feline grace.
Archive 2009-05-01 Marina Geigert 2009
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Blended with vanilla and rose, the animalic ingredient lends Ubar that ambiguous gourmand/erotic quality that makes one wonder whether one should crave to drink it or to lust after it.
Archive 2009-03-01 Marina Geigert 2009
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