“That night’s selection was called Windblown Grass. It didn’t exactly smell like grass to Holden, but it was nice. Just a hint of earthiness to it. Holden had a suspicion that all perfumes were named randomly, anyway.”

—  Daniel Abraham

Source: Caliban's War (2012), Chapter 53 (p. 579)

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