Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

But a smell shivered him awake.It was a scent as old as the world. It was a hundred aromas of a thousand places. It was the tang of pine needles. It was the musk of...

Sheer, unadulterated fear?

But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the destruction of things, alone, frailer but more enduring, more immaterial, more persistent, more faithful, smell and taste still remain for...

Who are you, Martin Eden? he demanded of himself in the looking- glass, that night when he got back to his room. He gazed at himself long and curiously. Who are you? What are you?...

If you don’t smell good, then you don’t look good.

Money doesn’t smell”, … but feels profiteers. (“L’argent n’a pas d’odeur”, … – Mais sent les profiteurs.)

Smells, I think, may be the last thing on earth to die.

t smells in. Let the smell of hot tarmac in the summer remind you of a meal you ate the first time you landed in a hot place, when the ground smelled like it was...

You’re very kind,” said Colonel Jack Hamilton.

When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered…the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls…bearing resiliently, on tiny and...

If you had a clone, and you weren’t wearing perfume and your clone was, I’d automatically think your clone was more attractive.

Faeces by any other name would smell as gross

As soon as I got into the library I closed my eyes and took a deep breath. I got a whiff of the leather on all the old books, a smell that got real strong...

When I smell small, my nose gets clogged up. Think what would happen if I whiffed medium or large.

Who who whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends’ secret places.

Flowers and fear are a lot alike. For one, flowers and fear have a distinct smell, and two, I’m currently trying to grow both in my garden.

Vinegar: that’s what fear smells like.

I had a dream I was in an old woman’s closet peeing on a giant shoe. Sorry grandma I thought it was the bathroom. I hate vacations where someone carries you out of the car...

Air freshener is man’s pitiful attempt to have his food smell as good, after digestion, as they did, before ingestion.

He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs.”One rule in life”, he murmured to himself. “If you can smell garlic, everything is all right”.

One might trouble one’s dainty snout with a whiff of the taleggio displayed in an artisanal cheese shop, or take a saucer of jasmine tea and a knuckle of fennel-scented snuff at a counter of...

My nose remembers more than my eyes. The sharp oily smell of eucalyptus combines with afternoon dust from the hockey field. But my heart feels the different then and now.