Quotes About Scent

But a person's smell and their alarms and borrowed shirts and secret words linger for a long time. Much longer than a house.

She smelled like accounts receivable. She looked like old money.

The strange scent of burning trailed the riverbanks down Balangiga, toward San Roque, out by Guiuan and Giporlos. The news spread through their noses, this sweet and terrible smell, this news that was not benevolent, the news of burning rice.

Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

Beauty without virtue is a rose without fragrance.

I loved men and was going mad with suppressed desire. It pushed me into a series of affairs with dubious jazz musicians. Sex was not what I imagined. It was tension, scent and prosaic misalliance. It was sweet and sad revelation, and all expectation dashed.

He wore piss-poor lime cologne. He sucked a hide-the-hooch lozenge.

What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar.

A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

Say goodbye to the age-old stereotypes of seduction. Seductive, but not a seductress, a woman wears a scent to reveal her personality.

Fragrance is so intimate for a lot of women - it's your essence, your identity.

I think it's a good idea to take samples and live with them a little. So far I'm liking Creed's Spring Flower. I think I'm going to make it my regular scent.

For me, I've always found people who stand up and spritz themselves all over their clothes very odd. I'm a big bath addict, and I get up in the morning, and I have a big bath. But when I get out, and I'm still hot but fresh out of the bath, that's when I apply scent. I just have it on my bare skin; I never apply it to my clothes.

A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.

I suppose, yes, I've been guilty of provocation but it's also just common sense marketing - put a bottle of scent in a woman's cleavage, or between her thighs - and men will notice.

Scent is very important. Strong fragrances suit some men, while citrus types suit others. I like my men to smell fresh and woody, but also like a man.

The air was heavy and still, smelling sweet, like clover, and pungent, like the catnip that made Hemingway go nuts.

Needless to say, perfumes are a must for every season.

Scent's the thing, right? How you find someone. I've got yours inside me. I could find you whether I wanted to or not. Whether you wanted me to or not.' 'I'm not lost.' 'I still found you.'

He smelled of rain and leather, of green grass and rich earth. Of Talamh, she realized. He smelled of magick.

Does the smell of pumpkin pie piss you off?

chest. She smelled of wine and fruit.

The perfume, all those dead whales in the cuts in her hands, it stings.

What fun would a murder mystery be if the murderer was plain to see up front? Mystery relies on feeding us options and opportunities for guessing right—and guessing way wrong. A red herring is the literary technique of boldly played misdirection—the origin of the idiom is that, if you wanted to get hounds off your scent, you could use the skin of a red herring to draw their attention, thus drawing them away from their actual target. 5