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Quotes About Scent

I use only essential oils for perfumes.
~ Jessica Capshaw
I don't really use fragrance. I use essential oils, but not necessarily every day.
~ Hannah Bronfman
I'm a bit old school with my aftershave - I still wear Joop.
~ Andrew Flintoff
In the slanting beams that streamed through the open doorway the dust danced and was golden. The heavy scent of the roses seemed to brood over everything.
~ Oscar Wilde
A depressing musty scent pervaded the place, as if a cheese had recently died there in painful circumstances.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
I always feel that nothing is so soothing as a walk in a garden at night. Ha! The cool air. The scent of growing things. That is tobacco plant which you can smell, sir. Is it? The stars, sir. Stars? Yes, sir. What about them? I was merely directing your attention to them, sir. Look how the floor of heaven is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. Theres not the smallest orb which thou beholdest, sir, but in his motion like an angel sings, still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
Bit it was her scent that just about killed him. Clean skin. Woman. And something more—something that made him feel like dispensing with five thousand years of civilization, dragging her off to a cave somewhere, and filling her with babies.
~ Pamela Clare
The dusky and faintly sweet smell of her perfume came to Therese again, a smell suggestive of dark green silk, that was hers alone, like the smell of a special flower.
~ Patricia Highsmith
nothing smells quite as wonderful as old books.
~ Dan Simmons
tourists smelling of UV lotion and cannabis.
~ Dan Simmons
If summer had one defining scent, it'd definitely be the smell of barbecue.
~ Katie Lee
Fancy and Imagination, Grace and Beauty, all those qualities which are to the work of Art what scent and colour are to the flower, can only grow towards heaven by taking root in earth.
~ Wilkie Collins
Caddy smelled like trees.
~ William Faulkner
When you opened the door a bell tinkled, but just once, high and clear and small in the neat obscurity above the door, as though it were gauged and tempered to make that single clear small sound so as not to wear the bell out nor to require the expenditure of too much silence in restoring it when the door opened upon the recent warm scent of baking; a little dirty child with eyes like a toy bear's and two patent-leather pigtails.
~ William Faulkner
She smells like trees
~ William Faulkner
The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers... Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
~ William Golding
For me, fragrances are very - one of these beautiful art forms that bring about a whole host of things. It's what you want to smell like, it's memories that make you smile or are resonant of times in your life, it can remind you of music. If you're a lover of scent, it's a very kind of particular and evocative thing.
~ Chris Pine
Here the scent of fake roses was underscored with the bright iron reek of blood.
~ Christa Faust
A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.
~ Christian Dior
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
~ Heinrich Heine
The hawk had filled the house with wildness as a bowl of lilies fills a house with scent.
~ Helen Macdonald
Another thunderstorm crosses the Ridings. The sky is rusty water and the trees have blurred to ink. Fat raindrops hammer on the blanket and soak through his steaming clothes; there is wet wool and sweat and the electric scent of the storm carried in with the rising wind.
~ Helen Macdonald
The air reeked of pine resin and the pitchy vinegar of wood ants.
~ Helen Macdonald
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
~ Henry Ward Beecher