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Quotes About Scent

Humanity can be pretty stinky.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand.
~ Jonathan Carroll
I wish they made fajita cologne, because that stuff smells good. What's that you're wearing? That's sizzlin'!
~ Mitch Hedberg
I like the smell of my Grandma's soap - I used to sit in the bath and eat it.
~ Carl Barât
There was so much testosterone in the air, I felt like I needed a gas mask.
~ Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
I'm a cat. You know cat's don't like to go outside. They actually drop their smell all over a place, and that becomes their place. So when you live with a cat, you actually live at the cat's house.
~ Carla Bruni-Sarkozy
Perfume opens endless horizons. It appeals both to the senses and to the imagination. Like an enchantment, it works on an instinctive level and at the same time is extremely subtle.
~ Nino Cerruti
The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.
~ William Carlos Williams
Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.
~ Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons
Over endless crystalline waves travelled the sparkling scent of triumph, of limitless possibilities, of strength and inspiration.
~ Jan Moran
I prefer perfumery, it's the language of love.
~ Jan Moran
She breathed in the scent of lemon blossoms, inspired by how their citrus sweetness mingled with fresh ocean air. Closing her eyes, she ran the tip of her tongue over her lips, tasting a faint saltiness in the moisture laden breeze. She imagined how dark, rich chocolate filled with the brightness of a lemon filling and dusted with chunky sea salt might taste. Delicious, she decided.
~ Jan Moran
An independent woman selects her own perfume—scents to accent her style, her personality, her ambition. —DB
~ Jan Moran
Perfume is my memory, the chronicle of my life. —DB
~ Jan Moran
It's the closest thing we poor creatures have to magic, my dear—the ability to be transported through time by a waft of scent that unlocks memory.
~ Jason Fry
Next to any kind of elegance, Claudia loved good clean smells.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
He is the prospector of the air, perpetually searching its strata for olfactory gold.
~ Aldo Leopold
wrapped in the scent of her warm, tempting skin? "When a human is . . . transformed
~ Alexandra Ivy
In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine.
~ Alfred Austin
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
~ Olive Schreiner
I used to switch up my cologne every two to three months, get a new wave - Dolce, Versace, Burberry. But Black Orchid, that joint stayed. That's the smell of beauty that stays on you... and girls love Tom Ford.
~ Wale
If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.
~ Zac Efron
I wear men's cologne - it gets the fellas!
~ Kelly Rowland
I love Jo Malone. I got the Orange Blossom scent as a gift many years ago, and I fell in love with it. It's very light, natural, sweet. It's there but not that obvious.
~ Zhu Zhu