n., a pervasive, pungent and unrepentantly flagrant body odor
I stopped at the video store to drop off some movies. As soon as I made my way through the door, a wall of the foulest, most dank rare essence greeted me. My mouth agape and my nostrils burning, I placed the DVDs on the counter and returned to my car with the utmost haste.
also may be used to converse with another person in the presence of a strong odor without the offending party's knowledge
Guy #1: Man, that guy has some rare essence going on
Guy #2: Yeah, it's heinous.
Medically speaking, body odor is also known as bromhidrosis and gets its pungent, vinegar-like smell from the presence of propionic acid.
Did you know it's possible to 'hallucinate' smells? This type of olfactory hallucination is known as phantosmia.
Drop that bit of knowledge at your cocktail parties later this evening ...
Until 2009,
Quixotica
