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Quotes About Smells

Lunch is a problem because my office is above our chip shop - everything is fried in proper beef dripping. It smells so good that by 12 o'clock it's hard not to think very lovingly of fish and chips.
~ Rick Stein
Every Chanel show I've been to is very conceptual. Even down to the music and smells, the whole thing is connected.
~ G-Dragon
Everyone always says my hair smells good, and I really just use Garnier Fructis conditioner.
~ Nina Agdal
Cream and amber butterflies flew intermittently from behind the hedgerows and strange, exotic smells hit their noses.
~ Michelle Magorian
So what if the airin Paris smells of romance?My shirt smells of you.
~ Pooja Nansi
Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, he used every means short of actual physical violence to prevent customers from making a purchase. Unpleasant damp smells, glowering looks, erratic opening hours - he was incredibly good at it.
~ Terry Pratchett
Bookstores attract the right kind of folk. Good people like A.J. and Amelia. And I like talking about books with people who like talking about books. I like paper. I like how it feels, and I like the feel of a book in my back pocket. I like how a new book smells, too.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Bookstores attract the right kind of folk. Good people like A.J. and Amelia. And I like talking about books with people who like talking about books. I like paper. I like how it feels, and I like the feel of a book in my back pocket. I like how a new book smells, too." Ismay
~ Gabrielle Zevin
over his head towards the fire, seemed invoking some curse or some blessing on the toil. But, as Ahab looked up, he slid aside. What's that bunch of lucifers dodging about there for? muttered Stubb, looking on from the forecastle. That Parsee smells fire like a fusee; and smells of it himself, like a hot musket's powder-pan. At last the shank, in one
~ Herman Melville
But it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky; and the airs smells now, as if it blew from a far-away meadow; they have been making hay somewhere under the slopes of the Andes, Starbuck, and the mowers are sleeping among the new-mown hay. Sleeping?
~ Herman Melville
Aaahh. Home. My place, my smells, my familiar rug under my feet, my kitchen, my Curran in the kitchen chair . . . Wait a damn minute.
~ Ilona Andrews
Those who know me well will tell you that I love a market, and when I say market, I mean food market. No matter where in the world, they allow me to soak up the culture, to hear the rhythmic chattering of the local people and traders, and take in the all-important smells, pungent and intoxicating.
~ John Torode
I'm really interested in smells. I think I'd like to own a perfumery someday.
~ Kurt Cobain
When Nature Neuroscience published Dias's study on memories of smells, they put a picture of Lamarck on the cover, complete with a thatch of gray hair and a high cravat. New
~ Carl Zimmer
This is just how they want you, an animal, a bitch with swollen udder lying in the dirt, blank-faced, surrendered, reduced to this meat, these smells...
~ Thomas Pynchon
Small pleasures. Don't ever dismiss them, Ellen thinks. Tastes, smells, the feel of things, the sounds of birds, music. And talk. Small conversations with people you like. A good book.
~ Kathleen George
a confidence that comes out," Martin explained. "I think it's something the audience smells.
~ Cal newport
Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.
~ Emanuel Celler
Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.
~ Alyssa Milano
You skin is so soft. Smells like…" She had to tilt him to get this other arm free and hated knowing how badly she was hurting him as she did so. "Sheer, unadulterated fear?
~ Cherry Adair
The small room was furnished with little more than odd smells and disappointment.
~ Kevin J. Anderson
Behold, in yon stripped Autumn, shivering gray, Earth knows no desolation, She smells regeneration In the moist breath of decay.
~ George Meredith
Sam loved to listen to music and make his own songs, to wear soft velvets, to play in the castle kitchen beside the cooks, drinking in the rich smells as he snitched lemon cakes and blueberry tarts. His passions were books and kittens and dancing, clumsy as he was.
~ George R.R. Martin