It smells terrible in here.’Well, what do you expect? The human body, when confined, produces certain odors which we tend to forget in this age of deodorants and other perversions. Actually, I find the atmosphere...

It is stronge how smells can bring back vivid memories.

How about that for a utopian answer?” To my not particularly utopian nose, crushed selfishness smells a lot like cilantro.

…and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie.

But why is it that if you imagine a baby who smells of milk, for example, you can’t help smiling? Why is there such an agreement around the world about what is or isn’t a...

Children would beg for a peppermint drop each time he walked into town, and they’d follow behind, asking for a second and a third. When he died suddenly, while working late at his office, every...

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell that makes you feel very tender towards the past.

Inside, everything is clean, pretty and bright. There are vases of flowers on every surface and it smells sweet, like lemon cake. At the end of the room are French windows. They need painting too,...

Sounds have smells. Your father smells, and he’s noisy.

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood

Endless love and voluptuous appetite pervaded this stifling nave in which settled the ardent sap of the tropics. Renée was wrapped in the powerful bridals of the earth that gave birth to these dark growths,...

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

I walk the city, through its crush of people and its smells:body odour, rotting food, vomit and urine. A cocktail of oppression and freedom.

The leaves drifted silently to the ground in the crisp autumn air. I inhaled deeply, the smell of burning bonfires far, far away enchanting my nostrils.Autumn had come early this year and I was excited...