Crossword-Solution: OPOPANAX 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

For many days now he had lain in bed in a room exuding silver, crimson, and electric light, smelling of opopanax and of cigars.

All over Europe, with the various tincture of differing national habit and custom, this was the mark of the sophistication of the poets, sometimes delicately and craftily exhibited, but often, as in foreign examples which will easily occur to your memory, rankly, as with the tiresome persistence of a slightly stale perfume, an irritating odour of last night's opopanax or vervain.

Some girls might save the small fortune they now spend in opopanax and patchouly, by cultivating lavender and thyme for their wardrobes; while balm and bergamot are sweet enough to make the kitchen smell like Araby the Blest.

Let the Gum _Ammoniack_, _Galbanum_, _Bdellium_, and _Opopanax_ be dissolv'd in Vinegar, in a little Earthen Pipkin; strain 'em thro' a course Cloth, and let 'em be thicken'd by Evaporation, according to the Method before observ'd in other Plaisters: Then prepare the Load-Stone upon a Porphyry or Marble-Stone, and take care to bruise separately, the _Olibanum_, the Mastick, the Myrrh, the round Birth-Wort, and the Verdegrease, which is to be kept to be added at last.

Creepers that had great black-pupilled crimson eyes hung from trees; and purple clematis, tangled with "old man's beard" and some waxen white flower that gave forth an odour like opopanax, dripped and clung from huge rocks that, standing alone, looked as though they had jerked themselves loose from some mighty mountain of the moon, and dropped abruptly into the silence and solitude of this wild place.