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Quotes About Scent

Scent is such a powerful tool of attraction, that if a woman has this tool perfectly tuned, she needs no other. I will forgive her a large nose, a cleft lip, even crossed-eyes; and I'll bathe in the jouissance of her intoxicating odour.
~ Roman Payne
Ô, Muse of the Heart's Passion, let me relive my Love's memory, to remember her body, so brave and so free, and the sound of my Dreameress singing to me, and the scent of my Dreameress sleeping by me, Ô, sing, sweet Muse, my soliloquy!
~ Roman Payne
Nature's serenity is there for us to see, hear and feel in the majesty of the mountains, the vastness of the sea, the whisper of the whistling wind, the incredible scent-of-a-quenched-happy-earth after rain.. it makes my heart glow with a happiness unparalleled by any other joy… sends my tired senses into a meditative trance.. the earth is a kaleidoscope of dreamscapes.
~ Rooma Mehra
She smelled of Marlboros, Aviance Night Musk, and her first drink of the late afternoon.
~ Louise Erdrich
Eau de Better Than Manure," said Doris. "The farm girl's friend.
~ Louise Erdrich
Penstemon's conviction is that people miss the scent of paper, so clean and dry and pleasant.
~ Louise Erdrich
And in spite of herself, Maya sniffed the Christmassy scent of them, and felt her spirits rise. "Smells good, doesn't it?" Caleb asked. "Smells like a memory in the making
~ Maggie Shayne
Drug couriers often use air fresheners—particularly the kind shaped like little fir trees—to cover up the smell of drugs. (Tree air fresheners are known as the "felony forest.")
~ Malcolm Gladwell
my room, and to rub his scent off me.
~ Amy Tan
Die Vergangenheit war wie jene altmodischen, mit Kräutern und Blumen gefüllten Duftkissen, deren Aroma die Kleider durchdringt und an ihnen haften bleibt.
~ Anais Nin
This happiness rendered absurd men's desire to dominate, to kill, to possess, thought Volsky. For neither Mila nor he possessed anything. Their joy came from the things one does not possess, from what other people had abandoned or scorned. But, above all, this sunset, this scent of warm bark, these clouds above the young trees in the graveyard, these belonged to everybody!
~ Andreï Makine
I think pot should be legal. I don't smoke it, but I like the smell of it.
~ Andy Warhol
Cambio de perfumes constantemente. Si he llevado uno tres meses, me obligo a dejarlo aun cuando todavía me guste seguir llevándolo; así, siempre que lo huelo de nuevo recuerdo aquellos tres meses. Nunca vuelvo a usarlo; se convierte en parte de mi colección permanente de olores.
~ Andy Warhol
But it was smell that carried memory.
~ Ann Brashares
Oh, I can find Matt anywhere. I have perfect Matt-dar. I used to be able to spot him across campus in a group of a thousand. I'm like Edward sniffing out Bella. I'm a vampire. I can smell him in any room.
~ Sarah Mlynowski
Shame is an odd emotion. It clings to things over which we have no control, like a scent.
~ Sarah Ruhl
The room was darker and smelled of evergreen, as though my mother had been dreaming of trees.
~ Scott Heim
Opium had artistic significance, you know. Picasso smoked. He said the scent of opium was the least stupid smell in the world, except for that of the sea.
~ John Baxter
This time he just inhaled, deep and luxurious. The inhale was to fill up on her scent, she knew. The exhale was her name, just that, warm and moist against her skin.
~ Eileen Wilks
I like her, Mamma, you were right to have her come. She smells nice, just like a corpse.
~ Elena Ferrante
I just love candles... the colour, the glow, the light.
~ Dimple Kapadia
In smaller, more familiar things, memory weaves her strongest enchantments, holding us at her mercy with some trifle, some echo, a tone of voice, a scent of tar and seaweed on the quay. . . . This surely is the meaning of home—a place where every day is multiplied by all the days before it.
~ Freya Stark
My genius is in my nostrils.
~ Friederich Nietzsche
Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's fragrances smell like the air freshener in a taxi.
~ Patricia Marx