320 Quotes About Smell

  • Author Grant Achatz
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    In a lot of ways, a lot of smells that aren't necessarily edible smell good, and they remind you of certain aspects of food. So making those associations with what smells good or smells a certain way and pairing that with actual edible ingredients is one avenue that we take creatively.

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  • Author Paul Arden
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    We are all advertising, all of the time. If you want to sell your car, what do you do? You clean and polish it and make it the best you can. Some people bake bread when they are trying to sell their house because the smell adds a friendly feeling. Even the priest, with all his or her fervour, is advertising God. Everybody is selling.

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  • Author Peter Ackroyd
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    And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.'

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  • Author W. H. Auden
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    Most people enjoy the sight of their own handwriting as they enjoy the smell of their own farts.

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  • Author Alain de Botton
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    Out of the millions of people we live among, most of whom we habitually ignore and are ignored by in turn, there are always a few that hold hostage our capacity for happiness, whom we could recognize by their smell alone and whom we would rather die than be without.

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  • Author Alain de Botton
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    Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.

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