Quotes about scent
Jean Cocteau -
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Catulle Mendès -
Money does not smell of the mire whence it came it has the glorious scent of what will be.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!
Kimberly Derting - Dead Silence
I miss the smell of him. I miss his lips and his strong arms. I miss him.
Jodi Picoult - My Sister's Keeper
Is there any place on earth that smells better than a Laundromat? It's like a rainy Sunday when you don't have to get out from under your covers, or like lying back on the grass your father's just mowed--comfort food for your nose.
Jean Cocteau -
The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
Tiffany Reisz - The Scent of Winter
I love the scent of winter. I love the scent of winter enough to suffer the cold for it.
Saim .A. Cheeda -
With bated breath we wait for the scent of perfection, accompanied by the freshness of love.
Anne Spollen - The Shape of Water
I believed I could identify the scent of the sky as I stood there, a blue menthol fragrance similar to the scent of seawater that sprayed into my face when I first dove into the ocean. That initial scent was much more subtle than the ocean's heavy, fishy aroma; it was a whiff of salt and mint, just as I approached the water on a dive, that warned me that a more powerful scent would soon enter my nose. It was the scent I dreamed in. And it was the scent of that spring sky as I stood in my yard.
L.J. Smith - Secret Vampire
He was the smell of winter rain and the sound of his predator’s heartbeat
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The First Circle
We are all human, and our senses are quicker to prompt us than our reason. Every man gives off a scent, and that scent tells you how to act before your head does.
Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters on Cézanne
At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first sounds. Containing depth within itself, darkness, something of the grave almost.
Patrick Jennings - We Can't All Be Rattlesnakes
Through the window, I saw the beautiful world outside: the sky, the sun, the cacti, the rocks, and the dirt. How I longed to return to it! I licked at the air, trying to smell the desert's delicious dusty scent, but could not. How was I able to see it without smelling it? Did humans control scents as well as the temperature and the waters? Is that what windows were for, to keep out scents? Why did they wish to put invisible barriers between themselves and the world?
Kim Baldwin - Taken by Storm
The last thing she remembered before finally drifting off was how nice Steffi's hair smelled.
Angie karan -
POSITIVITY is one of the most attractive scents you can wear ! If you've been running around all day today - perspiring lots from all your challenging work - be sure to spray on some Positivity Scent (spritz, spritz!) before you head on home!
Denton Welch - A Voice Through a Cloud
I began to long, as I had before, for some special smell, some special music that would fill me, lift me up and carry me away, float me off the rocks of my body and sweep me into some wideness, some vast expanse of blue-grey nothingness.
Jeffrey Stepakoff - The Orchard
A good fragrance is really a powerful cocktail of memories and emotion.
angie pandan -
This sweet-bitter scentIs still making me faintEnduring the painThat makes me insane.Trying to smile everydayTo hide the feelings I bearHide in bed and layPraying to ease the fear.The scent of perfumeIs the reason of my consciousnessIt wakens the inner loomAnd brings back the memories.
Virginia Alison -
I want your scent to intoxicate my passions to the point where lust is merely a word, dancing upon our flames of desire...
Sanober Khan -
The magic fades too fastthe scent of summer never lasts the nights turn hollow and vast but nothing remains...nothing lasts.
James Gould Cozzens -
Moving on, while he wondered, the dark through which Mr. Lecky's light cut grew more beautiful with scents. Particles of solid matter so minute, gases so subtle, that they filtered through stopping and sealing, hung on the unstirred air. Drawn in with Mr. Lecky's breath came impalpable dews cooked out of disintegrating coal. Distilled, chemically split and reformed, they ended in flawless simulation of the aromas of gums, the scent of woods and the world's flowers. The chemists who made them cou
Elif Shafak - The Forty Rules of Love
Three scents accompany my memories of this place: cut wood, poppy-seed bread, and the soft, crisp smell of snow.
Fern Schumer Chapman - Motherland: Beyond the Holocaust: A Mother-Daughter Journey to Reclaim the Past
Smells, I think, may be the last thing on earth to die.
C. JoyBell C. -
I can't over-emphasize how important an exquisite perfume is, to be wrapped and cradled in an enchanting scent upon your skin is a magic all on its own! The notes in that precious liquid will remind you that you love yourself and will tell other people that they ought to love you because you know that you're worth it. The love affair created by a good perfume between you and other people, you and nature, you and yourself, you and your memories and anticipations and hopes and dreams; it is all to
Neil Gaiman - American Gods
The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.
Kim Pape -
The scent of rain on a sultry spring evening is always an indulgence.
C. JoyBell C. -
Women waste so much time wearing no perfume. As for me, in every step that I have taken in life, I have been accompanied by an exquisite perfume!
Dean Koontz - Deeply Odd
Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity and greed, of faith and doubt, in short the fragrance of what we might have been and the smell of what we are...
Erik Pevernagie -
When we are smitten, we await love to be “remontant” and to be blooming over and over again”, like remontant roses, with blossoms scenting through all the seasons of life. Passion and patience are to be good allies, though.
Peter David - Sir Apropos of Nothing
Once again I felt light-headed, but this time it wasn't from the scent of lilacs; it was from the scent of my own death.
Erik Pevernagie -
Fear has always been a very important whistleblower. Our emotion and our history can provoke fear that may arrest us at any time or at any place. Above and beyond, fear might be contagious and its scent, sometimes sensual, sometimes mystical or animal, can exude the musty and arcane smell of destiny. ("One could still feel the smell of fear" )
Dominic Riccitello -
I smell him in intervals, in varieties, in ways I don’t quite understand.
Alyssa Harad - and an Unlikely Bride
What we talk about less often, because it is harder to explain, is the way a perfume can give breath and body to the phantom selves that waft about us as we go through our days -- not just the showgirl, the femme fatale, and the ingenue, but all the memories and dreams of the taller, meaner, sharper, sweeter, softer people we have been or long to be.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana - N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
Faeces by any other name would smell as gross
Sanober Khan -
in the endit is wordspoetry. sunsetssomeone’s deep blue silk voice.mountain scents.someone’s smile.eyes. that we haveno defenses against.
Angie karan -
An addition that takes time to depart, and sometimes, never leaves at all. A smell, a touch, thoughts, moments, feelings, movements, words left unsaid, words barely spoken; they all have a distinct sense, distinct fragrances! .... A pungent of cinnamon, an aroma of a rose, a summer breeze, a sweet smile like a per-fume that lingers on and on... endlessly.
Sharon Kay Penman - Devil's Brood
The great hall was shimmering in light, sun streaming from the open windows, and ablaze with colour, the walls decorated with embroidered hangings in rich shades of gold and crimson. New rushes had been strewn about, fragrant with lavender, sweet woodruff, and balm... the air was... perfumed with honeysuckle and violet, their seductive scents luring in from the gardens butterflies as blue as the summer sky.
Patrick Süskind - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
He would be able to create a scent that was not merely human, but super human, an angels scent, so indescribably good and vital that who ever smelt it would be enchanted and with his whole heart would have to love him.
Karen Quan -
I'm gonna go put my earplugs in and practice piano for hours until my fingers bleed. I practice the piano with the focus of Helen Keller—and nothing can distract me from the scent of the music.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz
Katie McGarry - Crash into You
She broke my heart. My mother broke my heart. If I love Rachel she’ll have more power than both of them combined because this overwhelming pulse in my body...this overwhelming need to protect her and hold her close...I nuzzle into her hair and close my eyes, inhaling the sweet scent of jasmine. I should let her go, let her go, just let her go. Walk away now. Hang on to what’s left of my s
Dominic Riccitello -
It didn’t affect him because he couldn’t fathom how I felt. He never saw how I held or how I dealt. And when a breeze hits, his first thought is never a scent. We worked in different ways and different places, which were divided by a constellation.
Sanober Khan - A Thousand Flamingos
May your love for me be likethe scent of the evening seadrifting inthrough a quiet windowso i do not have to runor chase or fall... to feel youall i have to dois breathe.