musty vs scentful

musty

adj
  • Having an odour or taste of mould; also (generally), having a stale or unfresh odour or taste. 

  • Affected by dampness or mould; damp, mildewed, mouldy. 

  • Characteristic of or relating to mould or mouldiness. 

  • Of attitudes, ideas, writing, or other abstract things: no longer fresh or interesting; outdated, stale. 

  • Of a person: boring and unadventurous; also, old-fashioned, stuck in the past. 

  • Bad-tempered, grumpy, irritable. 

  • Of a male animal such as a camel or an elephant: in musth. 

scentful

adj
  • Full of scent; odorous. 

  • Having a keen sense of smell. 

How often have the words musty and scentful occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )