Quotes About Aroma

My life revolves around chipotles.

Before I play a show, I put on lavender oil - it's sort of a ritual.

Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.

Smells are so powerful and evocative, sometimes stronger than visual cues.

What sweet nectars and scents would emerge once the depths of your essence are revealed.

One of the strangest elements in travelling to other worlds is the way people smell. It isn't a matter of hygiene, simply a case of different foods, different oils and soaps for cleaning, meaning skin, hair, sweat and breath is always vastly different, world to world.

The Arabs had the dry, musty smell of a grain cellar; the Asians contributed the ginger and garlic; and from the whites came the odor of a milk-soaked bib.

But the Americans ruin everything with cheese. They make it out of animal milk. Americans put it on everything—on their eggs at breakfast, on their noodles, they melt it on ground meat. They say Americans smell like butter, but no, it is cheese. With heat, it becomes an orange liquid.

The steam-borne smells of root and muscle, allium and brassica, saffron, thyme, turmeric, allspice, nutmeg and cinnamon, caramelised sugar, brandy and sour vinegar, duck thighs and salmon scales curl and emulsify into gobbets that dribble into nubbed stalactites on its galvanised yawn.

A perfect chutney needs patience. If you are cooking it, cook it on a low flame; the flavors come out the best that way.

I like to peel oranges.

My least favorite ingredient to cook with is black pepper.

Freshly grated nutmeg over fresh pasta with truffle oil is simple perfection. It's also integral in any good bechamel or chai mix.

My perfume, Manifesto, was based on the scent of basil.

Sandalwood is one of the ingredients in Tam Dao, the perfume that I love from Diptyque.

I don't wear perfume, and I don't like the air to be too saturated with scents.

Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.

Every time you choose a perfume, you are voting. And, of course, I hope you vote for me. Not only for my ego, but for my pocketbook. The more you buy, the more money I make.

I probably have about four or five cups of coffee a day. I make myself an espresso macchiato when I wake, which is a shot of espresso and just a dollop of steamed milk. Then, if I'm going to do some work at home, I would make myself a French press. It's the best way to make conventional coffee.

Since I was about seven, I've loved cooking. I'd wake up at five in the morning and make cinnamon rolls and all these different things.

Parsley goes really nicely with everything. It adds a nice lightness; it wakes up a dish.

The automatic bread maker is not as good as breads made by hand, but waking up to the smell of fresh bread is worth the price of admission. We use it for fresh cinnamon raisin toast - mmmmmmm!

There's nothing better on Christmas morning than waking up to the smell of breakfast!

I like a fragrance that you notice and want to find out more about - get a bit closer. I don't want to walk in and be jolted awake by someone's smell.