"underscent" meaning in English

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          "text": "1902, Marie Corelli, “Temporal Power”: A Study in Supremacy, London: Methuen, Chapter 18, p. 256,\nThe under-scent of hidden violets among moss flowed potently upon the quiet air, mingled with strong pine-odours and the salt breath of the gently heaving sea,"
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          "ref": "1968, M. K. Joseph, chapter 4, in The Hole in the Zero,, New York: Dutton, page 67",
          "text": "[…] below her perfume lingered another perfume, more elusive, more aggressive, a man’s scent. Still staring into her eyes, he deliberately blanked his mind three times; and each time the first picture triggered in his mind by that underscent was the face of Billy Merganser.",
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          "ref": "1999, Barbara Gowdy, chapter 8, in The White Bone, New York: Picador, page 127",
          "text": "[…] night is when the ground heaves up the distracting odours of burrowed life: catfish and reptiles, and the musk of regeneration in scorched roots. [footnote:] Known as underscents, these odours hover beneath the buoyant smells of dung, leaves, living animals and even slaughter.",
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          "ref": "2013, Richard Flanagan, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, London: Vintage, published 2014, page 402",
          "text": "hermetically enclosed rooms that had the persistent, unpleasant underscent of chemicals",
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          "text": "1902, Marie Corelli, “Temporal Power”: A Study in Supremacy, London: Methuen, Chapter 18, p. 256,\nThe under-scent of hidden violets among moss flowed potently upon the quiet air, mingled with strong pine-odours and the salt breath of the gently heaving sea,"
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