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Quotes About Aroma

In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog. Food is better in November than any other time of the year.
~ Cynthia Rylant
Mr. Pickwick, she thought, and Weller—yes, Sam Weller, that was his name—and the long lanky Mr. Winkle who fought in the duel. It's all exactly like that, she thought (trying to catch the aroma of the book, the bird's-eye view which we reproduce when we try to remember something read long ago and build up from an incident or a character in the story). It's all exactly like the background of Pickwick Papers.
~ D.E. Stevenson
It wasn't just coffee...it was an experience. Smooth, roasted, buttery notes gave away to a velvet finish.
~ Lisa Kleypas
The stew had been made with chunks of beef, potatoes, and turnips simmered in burgundy wine until they melted at the lightest pressure of the tongue. There was a salad of crisp lettuce greens and chopped mint leaves, and wedges of cottage bread, the interior laced with holes to catch every drop of salted butter.
~ Lisa Kleypas
She strained as he began to kiss along the side of her neck. Her skin was hot from exertion, a little salty, and her scent was divinely arousing: horses, fresh winter air, roses.
~ Lisa Kleypas
His attempt at polite discussion having been rebuffed, Cam sat back as the soup was removed and the second course was brought out. Sweetbreads in béchamel sauce, partridges nestled in herb beds, pigeon pies, roast snipe, and vegetable soufflé laced the air with a cacophony of rich scents.
~ Lisa Kleypas
chicken pot pie, the crust shattering under the fork,
~ Unknown
A good barbecue sauce should be as complex as the bouquet of a fine wine. It should have notes of sweetness, acidity, and a hint of pepperiness.
~ Unknown
ginger would have been far more widely used.
~ Unknown
The tantalizing aroma of chocolate involves more than three hundred chemical compounds and the flavor can have more than five hundred components.
~ Unknown
bright, flowery plants... were busy committing the olfactory equivalent of aggravated assault.
~ Jim Butcher
Tropical trees had been planted throughout the room, along with bright flowering plants that were busy committing the olfactory floral equivalent of aggravated assault.
~ Jim Butcher
his scent like leather and fresh wind
~ Jim Butcher
Next to coffee, chocolate was her favorite aroma.
~ Joanne Fluke
At the same time, Italian sausage, breadsticks, antipasto, and spaghetti vied for air supremacy.
~ Joanne Fluke
And yet there is something oddly attractive about the crowded shop window with its piles of boxes and tins, and its Hallowe'en witches in darkest chocolate and colored straw, and plump marzipan pumpkins and maple-candy skulls just glimpsed beneath the half-closed shutter. There was a scent too- a smoky scent of apples and burnt sugar, vanilla and rum and cardamom and chocolate.
~ Joanne Harris
Madame hesitated. I could see her natural suspicion at war with the scent that came from the box: the smoky, espresso scent of cacao; the hint of clove; of cardamom; of vanilla; the fleeting aroma of Armagnac- a fragrance like lost time; a bittersweetness like childhood's end.
~ Joanne Harris
My sense of smell seemed preternaturally enhanced, so that I could almost taste every dish- the fish grilled in the ashes of the brazier, the roasted goat's cheese, the dark pancakes and the light, the hot chocolate cake, the confit de canard and the spiced merguez...
~ Joanne Harris
The smell of thyme was pungent in the air. It grew wild by the roadside. Thyme improves the memory, Joe used to say. He used to make a syrup out of it, keeping it in a bottle in the pantry. Two tablespoonsful every morning before breakfast. That clear greenish liquid smelled exactly like the night air over Lansquenet, crisp and earthy and nostalgic, like a summer day's weeding in the herb garden, and the radio on...
~ Joanne Harris
Noses to the wind, we inhaled a farrago of scents: charcoal and jasmine, rotting fruit and eucalyptus, gasoline and ammonia, a swirling belch from the city's poorly irrigated gut.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Flowers really do intoxicate me.
~ Vita Sackville-West
People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor fresh but definitely country.
~ Vivian Vande Velde
Guys with small dry lips, they turn me off, or if they smell bookish—you know, this dry pencil smell of men.
~ Philip Roth
20Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. 21The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: "Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though[35] every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
~ Philip Yancey