vanilla-scented

Updated: May 9, 2025

I envied him the vanilla-scented nights; the skies, a solid crust of stars, and also, and particularly, the tattooed ghosts. But I am forgetting your hair. Were you ever in Berlin?" Lennox scowled. "Yes. Once." "And once is too often. The last time I was there, I looked down the Wilhelmstrasse and it got up and threatened me.

Edgar Saltus - The Paliser case

It took my thoughts back to what I saw two days ago while climbing in the torrid hour of noon up that shadeless path where the vanilla-scented orchids grow the path which runs from Sant' Elia past the shattered Natural Arch to Fontanella. Here, at the hottest turning of the road, sat a woman in great distress.

Norman Douglas - Alone