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Quotes About Odor

It could be argued that all perfume is born out of shame; a self-consciousness of our natural odour.
~ Kathleen Tessaro
The world is defined by smells – not words or shapes or sounds.
~ Kathleen Tessaro
Perfume should tell a story –
~ Kathleen Tessaro
Hey, that spot over there smells pretty good. This area has been peed on a lot.
~ Katie MacAlister
With a sense of fulfillment stronger even than the sating of his hunger that morning, for he'd been starved of books much longer than of food, Pico joined the browsers. Inhaling the odor of mildewed hide as if he'd entered a confectionery, fondling the bindings of stippled leather or buckled cloth, running his fingers across the raised letters of the titles as though blind, for a moment he wished he'd saved the coin to buy a book, then giggled at his folly.
~ Keith Miller
What is that *smell*?" Eliot shook his head. "I keep telling you, it's fresh air.
~ Keith R.A. DeCandido
septic tanks.
~ C.J. Box
The air smelled like testosterone and manflesh again. (That was a thing, right?)
~ Gena Showalter
Many have belittled Joseph Smith, but those who have will be forgotten in the remains of Mother Earth, and the odor of their infamy will ever be with them, but honor, majesty, and fidelity to God, exemplified by Joseph Smith and attached to his name, will never die.
~ George Albert Smith
The top bag popped, and a metric ton of old lasagna spilled onto my pants. The stench of soured spaghetti sauce washed over me. Ew. Of all the trash from this whole giant building, I had to step on a bag from the food court. Damn it.
~ Ilona Andrews
El paraíso huele de una forma muy concreta: a alcantarilla.
~ Irvine Welsh
Esteban abrió la puerta y necesitó algunos segundos para ver en la oscuridad. El olor a medicamentos y podredumbre le golpeó la cara un olor dulzón de sudor, humedad, encierro y algo que al principio no identificó, pero que pronto se le adhirió como una peste: el olor de la carne en descomposición.
~ Isabel Allende
I don't wear a lot of perfumey-perfumes because I think a lot of them smell like you're wearing perfume. And I don't want to smell like that.
~ Zoe Kravitz
There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.
~ Alison Lurie
the first place smelled like work, so I took the second
~ Charles Bukowski
People always talked about the good clean smell of fresh sweat. They had to make excuses for it. They never talked about the good clean smell of fresh shit. There was nothing really as glorious as a good beer shit - I mean after drinking twenty or twenty-five beers the night before. The odor of a beer shit like that spread all around and stayed for a good hour-and-a-half. It made you realize that you were really alive.
~ Charles Bukowski
Todos los domingos la gente venía y aspiraba aquel olor a meado y nadie decía nada. Quería hablarle al cura acerca de ello, pero no podía. Quizás fueran los cirios.
~ Charles Bukowski
Edinburgh has history the way cats have bad breath.
~ Charles Stross
In 1775, Cumming patented the S-bend. This became the missing ingredient to create the flushing toilet—and, with it, public sanitation as we know it. Flushing toilets had previously foundered on the problem of smell: the pipe that connects the toilet to the sewer, allowing urine and feces to be flushed away, will also let sewer odors waft back up—unless you can create some kind of airtight seal.
~ Tim Harford
The odor of frying bacon, sausage links, and ham tiptoed on little pig feet all the way to the north end of the second floor. Inevitably, the odor made her simultaneously ravenous and nauseated. She hated the sensation. It reminded her of pregnancy. Every Sunday morning, Leigh-Cheri awoke to a pan of fried fear.
~ Tom Robbins
A well paid garbage man smells of success.
~ Kilburn Hall
Cuántos días inútiles! Días llenos de historias, demasiadas historias turbias. Historias incompletas, apenas iniciadas e hinchadas ya como una vieja madera a la intemperie. Historias demasiado oscuras para mi. Su olor, que era el podrido olor de mi casa, me causaba cierta náusea...
~ Carmen Laforet
Sweet smells are sometimes used to cover foul ones.
~ George R.R. Martin
The scent of blood or the scent of gold, they smell the same in the end.
~ George R.R. Martin