The air was dry and heavily scented with a strong piney smell.

Studies have shown that chemicals called terpenes in the pine needles - that is what gives them their piney smell - interfere with bacteria that convert nitrogen in dead wood into a form that plants can use.

Aegon's Garden had a pleasant piney smell to it, and tall dark trees rose on every side.

The needles everywhere, scratching at his bare face and falling down the back of his neck, the sticky sap on his hands, the sharp piney smell of it.

It was quiet here, and there was a pleasant piney smell.

Will snapped off a twig, and the piney resinous smell stayed strongly on his fingers.

He smelled the odor of the pine boughs under him, the piney smell of the crushed needles and the sharper odor of the resinous sap from the cut limbs.

The darting reflections of the fire on the Christmas tree ornaments annoyed him and the piney smell in the warm room cloyed in his nostrils.

Eventually, my father took me camping in the White Mountains in New Hampshire, where I discovered that along with the pleasant attributes of outdoor life - the crackle of the fire, the sound of the wind in the trees, the piney smell of the campsite - came some rather difficult logistics.

A piney smell met her on the stairs, and she thought how things would have started growing as the nights began to shrink.