Quotes About Scent
Rabbit wipes her chin and mouth with his handkerchief and, for weeks afterward, when all is lost, will take out this handkerchief and bury his nose in it, in its scarcely detectable smell of distant ocean.
~ John Updike
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I have smelled some very famous and undoubtedly sexy boys. And sometimes, as cute as they are, I'd rather have them as a friend - just because of the way they smell!
~ Rachel Nichols
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A true gangster can smell out a person's strenghts and weaknesses in a matter of minutes, but what they can sense most of all, what their bodies are most attuned to, is the scent of fear.
~ Lorenzo Carcaterra
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Mirabelle loved the forest. It was cool and full of shadows and little shifting pools of sunlight. It was strange and secret, full of unknown things, magic things perhaps. It sheltered flocks of colored birds, and rabbits and squirrels and the big-eyed, delicate-footed deer. It breathed with the scent of flowers and the sound of running water, and at night it held all the stars in its branches.
~ Unknown
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It was in an atomiser, and she used to squirt it around her bedroom after she had finished a cigarette. On these occasions, my mother always said, "Do you think we are teaching the child deception?" And Aunt Edna always replied , "No, just self-preservation.
~ Margaret Laurence
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Tu ancora ami il mio cuore?" "Sempre. Sempre te per sempre." "Non pensi che sono cambiata, che sono peggiore? Pavida, gretta, stretta ai miei golfini, ai miei passi rachitici." "Penso che profumi di un odore che mi piacerà sempre.
~ Margaret Mazzantini
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There is a strange, mineral scent in the air. As soon as we enter the compound surrounded by al the granite walls, the day turns colorless, shadowless. It's neither warm nor cold, though we shiver in our coats.
~ Unknown
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I am like a bee attracted by the scent of flowers—no perfume smells sweeter than that of a rose in an English garden. Wear it always,' he urged, pausing mere inches from where she stood, 'never change it, for to me it has become your hallmark, the scent I associate only with you." -Terzan Helios
~ Unknown
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The whole house seemed to be permeated by the scent of the herb garden.
~ Margery Allingham
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The things that Irish setter cold do! She could scent birds even in dry weather when other dogs just sat down on their haunches and gave up. She could find them if they were hidden in a haystack. She could fly over brush and fences and brooks as if she had wings on her feet instead of feathers.
~ Unknown
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There are lines of yours I know by heart. There are scents of yours soaked in my skin.
~ Marilyn Hacker
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The thing stank of unnamed yearnings, unfulfilled wishes, and a hunger so deep it make her feel hollow inside.
~ Unknown
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The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.
~ Nikola Tesla
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Coffee is a fleeting moment and a fragrance.
~ Claudia Roden
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If Leekes you like, but do their smell dis-like, Eat Onyons, and you shall not smell the Leeke; If you of Onyons would the scent expell, Eat Garlicke, that shall drowne the Onyons' smell.
~ Unknown
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It has been said of garlic that everyone knows its odor save he who has eaten it, and who wonders why everyone flies at his approach.
~ George Ellwanger
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Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it.
~ Unknown
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Death smells like homemade applesauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling scent of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
~ Rachel Corrie
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Ukraina: he sighs, breathing in the remembered scent of mown hay and cherry blossom. But I catch the distinct synthetic whiff of New Russia. Her
~ Marina Lewycka
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Allergic to garlic?" He tore a chunk of bread and chomped on it. "Might as well give up breathing." That too, but not because of allergies.
~ Unknown
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I cranked open my third-floor casement window, looked at Philadelphia- my piece of it- and let my affection for it lift lightly off me like a scent from a flower and drift out into the cool air.
~ Marisa de los Santos
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The flowery scent of the new perfume Tian had designed – to be called 'Miss Dior' after Catherine
~ Unknown
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female-and-jasmine scent.
~ Unknown
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Whenever I investigate a smell, I find that the answer is always bad. It's never: 'What is that? *sniff* muffins!'
~ Demetri Martin
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