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Quotes About Scent

There was a scent called Five Minutes Before It Rains. If you put it on your neck, whoever kissed you would cry.
~ Heather O'Neill
Smell is a potent wizard that transports us a thousand miles and all the years we have lived.
~ Helen Keller
The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.
~ Jean Cocteau
Stirring the pastry cream and putting it in the blast chiller in the island, a total chefly indulgence that I have never once regretted. The house filling with the scent of rich, dark chocolate as the cakes rise in the oven. The treat of the moist trimmings as I even up the layers before spreading the thick custard filling between them. The fudgy frosting smoothed perfectly over the whole thing, and then immediately marred with chocolate cookie crumbs.
~ Stacey Ballis
ezilmiÅŸ bir çiçekten yitip gitmiÅŸ bahar?n mis kokulu mucizesi nas?l anla??lmazsa, Madame de Prie'nin tarih olmuÅŸ yazg?s?n?n tutkulu çoÅŸkusu da sezilmiyordu bu sat?rlardan.
~ Stefan Zweig
It was the very color of the way my grandmother smelled; the color of the warmth of her lap and enfolding arms; the color of her husky voice resounding in her rib cage when she pulled me close.
~ Michael Chabon
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~ Michael Connelly
Tim watched until he was sure the velociraptor was coming toward the kitchen. Was it following their scent? All the books said dinosaurs had a poor sense of smell, but this one seemed to do just fine. Anyway, what did books know? Here was the real thing.
~ Michael Crichton
but the dog's paw was a wonder: the smell of it never suggested dirt. It's a cathedral!
~ Michael Ondaatje
What memoir of childhood doesn't at some point turn on the scent of a sweet pea or a freshly cut lawn or a boxwood hedge, to leap the fence of years?
~ Michael Pollan
The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I love the smell of a mans skin.
~ J. Courtney Sullivan
Tout ce qui n'est ni une couleur, ni un parfum, ni une musique, dit-il en comptant sur ses doigts, c'est de l'enfantillage. -Et une femme? protesta Lil. Sa femme? -Une femme, non, par conséquent, dit Wolf, puisque c'est au moins les trois.
~ Boris Vian
But Christopher obeyed a higher calling: the intoxicating call of green grass and sunshine, the sweet scent of the earth on one of the last days of summer.
~ Sy Montgomery
Something about the frank, guileless blue eyes, the beautiful young bodies, the brief scent of the dying flowers smote me like the clean quick cut of a knife. And the blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.
~ Sylvia Plath
She had an interesting, slightly sweaty smell
~ Sylvia Plath
In the air was the strong smell of masculinity which creates the ideal medium for me to exist in.
~ Sylvia Plath
What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islands What water lapping the bow And scent of pine and the woodthrush singing through the fog What images return O my daughter
~ T.S. Eliot
Is it perfume from a dress That makes me so digress?
~ T.S. Eliot
Real terror is a crippling experience. You sweat so much that your skin goes all wrinkly like when you've been in the bath all afternoon. And then the scent of your sweat changes. It smells like cat pee, no doubt from the adrenalin. However hard you wash, it won't come off. It smothers you, as your muscles become frozen with acid and your mind paralysed by despair.
~ Tahir Shah
The promise was a strong tie, hard, but I knew where I stood. If it's gone, I don't know where I am. When there's a strong scent in the spring twilight, I know least of all.
~ Tarjei Vesaas
It's Eau d'Orange Verte," she said. "Hermès.
~ Ted Bell
Qué raro, verdad, que una mujer no pueda olerse como la huele el hombre.
~ Julio Cortazar
She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.
~ Junot Diaz