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Quotes About Smell

I can smell autumn dancing in the breeze. The sweet chill of pumpkin and crisp sunburnt leaves.
~ Author Unknown
Philippa knew that Eliza was unusual: Animals worshipped her. She attracted them even though she dressed like a heretic. Even that dog of the Cohens had followed her out of the woods. The girl must give off some smell or vibration that attracted the beasts to her. But that she should then turn around and follow them , taking care of distemper or peering into hooves and mouths and reaching into unthinkable places for difficult births?
~ Grace Dane Mazur
I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You're my human Africa. I love your smell as I love these smells. I love your dark bush as I love the bush here, you change with the light as this place does, so that one all the time is loving something different and yet the same. I want to spill myself out into you as I want to die here.
~ Graham Greene
Yes, everyone know Bigfoot smell like shit. Please make effort not to point out every time you see Bigfoot. Thank you.
~ Graham Roumieu
I also urge you not to wash your hands, face or mouth in between cigarettes. Let the taste and smell stay with you, in your hair, your clothes, hands and face.
~ Gudjon Bergmann
Dupa powinna pachnie? dup?, a nie wod? kolo?sk?.
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
He paused in the hallway, sniffing the air. He scowled, sniffed some more. He pressed an intercom button on the wall. "Betty, I distinctly smell sewage. Could you get a plumber out here ASAP?" Several curly hairs fluttered in the air after he was gone. I clutched at the arm of the dentist chair. "This isn't a joke, Tub! I'm in trouble. We're all in trouble, the whole town, the whole world! You have no clue. You have no idea what kind of things we're dealing with here. There's a whole land of --
~ Guillermo del Toro
The faint sour stink of rotted cabbages came towards him from the kitchengardens on the rising ground above the river. He smiled to think that it was this disorder, the misrule and confusion of his father's house and the stagnation of vegetable life, which was to win the day in his soul.
~ James Joyce
The air was bright with a clean, cold smell like dark water dipped out of a rain barrel in winter, perhaps a harbinger that the gifts of the earth are many, all of them waiting to be discovered.
~ James Lee Burke
Of all the odors of a camp, the smell of bacon reaches farthest in the forest. It needs no wind. It drifts on its own wings. On a still night a fox will sniff it a mile away—twice that far if the air is moving in the right direction. It was this smell of bacon that came to Baree where he lay in his hollow on top of the beaver dam.
~ James Oliver Curwood
I want my room to smell just like this. Iggy inhaled deeply as the scents flame-broiled burgers and hot french fries wafted around us. 'it would be an improvement.' I agreed.
~ James Patterson
that palpable odor pumped out through the
~ James Patterson
When a skunk sprays, a lot of bystanders have to deal with the stink.
~ James Patterson
Givenchy Dahlia Noir perfume that wafted toward me.
~ James Patterson
They say our sense of smell is our most primal, the one that can hit us the hardest, because it comes from the deepest part of the brain.
~ James Patterson
I remember as a child going to an exhibit about the Soviet Union, and every paper had this alien smell. The paper and the ink were all exported. It was like a piece of cheese from that country, you could touch it, feel it, smell it, and it was different.
~ Ben Katchor
I've always loved to combine different scents to come up with my own unique thing.
~ Jennifer Aniston
For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.
~ Rachel Carson
The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.
~ Plautus
Women apparently are quite drawn to men who have differences rather than similarities in their histocompatibility system. They pick it up by smell, and they can pick it up from kissing.
~ Helen Fisher
You don't dream about angles and surfaces and so on. You dream about women, bread, smokes and trees.
~ Jean Helion
If one can know how good a city is by its smell, one should know how good a society is by the women's status.
~ Santosh Kalwar
I burned down my dorm room freshman year. I was that kid. When you live in small quarters with two guys, the smell in the room starts to take over a little bit. So we decided we wanted our room to smell like fresh baked cookies. So we order a cookie-dough-scented candle off eBay, and then we accidentally burn our room down with that candle.
~ Dave Franco
The Space Station is primarily made of aluminum. The smell is really weird and sort of like burning metal. It is absolutely distinct and totally repeatable.
~ Sunita Williams