1.   As I gazed around the orchard the sun was coming up and there was that peculiar smell of the Normandy countryside.

2.   There was a peculiar smell in the kitchen.

3.   This cheese has a peculiar smell.

4.   After several generations, the Parkway Beauty Salon reeks of that peculiar smell of hair dyes and hair-curling chemicals.

5.   Crankshafts ... tubular chassis systems ... pistons ... roll cages ... the peculiar smell of burned alcohol.

6.   Everything has been fine for most of that time, but in the last few years I get a most peculiar smell of ammonia in one of the bedrooms.

7.   It might have a peculiar smell, or there might be grease marks on it, from leaked explosives.