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stonepicnicking_okapi ([personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi) wrote2025-06-25 10:30 pm
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Word: Camphoric

Wednesday's word is...

...camphoric.

1. pertaining to or derived from camphor.

That's not helpful because I don't know that I know and/or remember what camphor is like. This was one of my prompts in my last Yahtzee roll. I was mainly interested in how it's used. And I discovered it is mainly perfume descriptions:

As soon as I sprayed it on I felt the presence of the original, in the heavy, bitter almond opening standing in for that famous camphoric tuberose-anise-incense blast.

Facing Down the Beast: Dior Hypnotic Poison, Marina Geigert, 2009

Narcissus is here, but it's the earthy, almost camphoric kind, not the sweeter type.

Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume Blog, 2010
falkner: [Touken Ranbu] [Imanotsurugi] ([tourabu] Imanotsurugi inquisitive)

[personal profile] falkner 2025-06-26 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
That's interesting, the only thing I associate camphor with is using it to keep moths away from wardrobes.