Resembling, containing, or having the qualities of camphor, such as a strong pungent smell or white crystalline appearance.
From camphor plus the suffix -y, used to form adjectives meaning 'having the quality of' or 'resembling.' This straightforward adjective formation has been used since camphor became known to English speakers.
Camphory is a word that works because your nose remembers it—camphor has such a distinctive smell that describing something as 'camphory' immediately conjures a specific sensory memory that almost no other adjective can do!
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