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Quotes About Odor

There were piles of horse manure in the entrance court and noisome heaps of refuse that would not bear investigating on the street outside the kitchen door. In some wings the stench of chamber pots was pervasive; in others the odor was unidentifiable and indescribable, but just as overpowering.
~ Jennifer Blake
He didn't sound afraid, but I smelled that he was. Vinegar: that's what fear smells like.
~ Jennifer Egan
I judge people on how they smell, not how they look.
~ Jennifer Lopez
I smell of sweat. I don't like people smelling of all these weird things. I think deodorant is disgusting.
~ Rupert Everett
Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.
~ Klaus Kinski
Please, Percy...change your clothes. You smell like you've been run over by an electric horse.
~ Rick Riordan
It is rare to find learned men who are clean, do not stink and have a sense of humour.
~ Baron de Montesquieu
it smelled the way a garage would smell if you left a bear inside it for too long.
~ Adam Rex
Never throw away squeezed lemon, but keep them for the day by the sink. Then you can use them to remove fish, onion or garlic smells from your fingers. Or you can stick them on your elbows while you are reading a book, to soften and whiten your skin.
~ Jennifer Paterson
Trina fans her armpits, "I'm sweating, I think I need more deodorant. Kitty, do I smell?
~ Jenny Han
If you're on a plane and the person in front of you starts slowly tilting to one side, it means he's letting out a fart. Take cover!
~ Jessica Zafra
One of the most persistent problems of the day was "offensive feet," caused by the prevailing habit of washing feet only once a week. To combat this, Hollingsworth wrote, "Take one part muriatic acid to ten parts of water; rub the feet every night with this mixture before retiring to bed." To rid your mouth of the odor of onions, drink strong coffee.
~ Erik Larson
What hast thou against the onion? The odor. Nothing more. Otherwise it is like the rose.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The odor of citronella is not offensive to people. It smells like gun oil. But the bugs do hate it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Mercaptan. They add it to natural gas so you can smell it if you have a leak in the house.
~ Robert Dugoni
Of course, many would say it was rich for him to have opinions about how women smelled, given that his signature odor was that of an old ashtray, overlain with a splash of Pour Un Homme on special occasions. Nevertheless, having spent much of his childhood in conditions of squalor, Strike found cleanliness a necessary trait in anyone he could find attractive. He'd liked Robin's previous scent, which he'd missed when she wasn't in the office.
~ Robert Galbraith
For example: How do you keep a fish from smelling? Cook it as soon as you catch it. Freeze it. Wrap it in paper. Leave it in the water. Switch to chicken. Keep a cat around. Burn incense. Cut its nose off.
~ Roger von Oech
In the State of Denmark there was the odor of decay...
~ Roger Zelazny
Minnows and catfish can recognize each member of their own species by his particular, person-specific odor. It is hard to imagine a solitary, independent, existentialist minnow, recognizable for himself alone; minnows in a school behave like interchangeable, identical parts of an organism. But there it is.
~ Lewis Thomas
Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.
~ Austin O'Malley
The night stank and was loud with flies.
~ Aldous Huxley
No self-respecting cat wants to have its subtle personal odor masked by overtones of lavender or rose petals.
~ Dr. Nicholas Dodman
Only one thing can spoil sand: perfume.
~ Dr. Nicholas Dodman