opium-scented

Updated: May 23, 2025

The sleeves of her djebba pushed back showed two enormous shapeless arms, loaded with bracelets, with long chains wandering through a heap of little mirrors, of red beads, of scent-boxes, of microscopic pipes, of cigarette cases the childish toyshop collection of a Moorish woman at her rising. The room, filled with the heavy opium-scented smoke of Turkish tobacco, was in similar disorder.

Alphonse Daudet - The Nabob