after-odour

Updated: June 7, 2025

Here it was that I became definitely certain that the after-odour of the poison was not simply lingering in the air, but was being more or less given off by the bodies: for the blossomy odour of this church actually overcame that other odour, the whole rather giving the scent of old mouldy linens long embalmed in cedars.

M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel - The Purple Cloud

We can only describe the smell by saying that it was of a twofold sort faintly aromatic, as it were, in its first effect, but with some after-odour very sickening in our nostrils.

Wilkie Collins - The Haunted Hotel