320 Quotes About Smell


  • Author Billy Wilder
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    It was a hot afternoon and I can still remember the smell of honeysuckle all along the street. How can I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?

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  • Author Craig Williams
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    The smell is just not very good. Some smell of rotting flesh, some of nuts, some of thyme leaves.

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  • Author Larry Wall
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    There is, however, a strange, musty smell in the air that reminds me of something...hmm...yes...I've got it...there's a VMS nearby, or I'm a Blit.

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  • Author M. Ward
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    One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.

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  • Author Rebecca Wells
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    A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic.

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  • Author Gao Xingjian
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    Body odour (known also as scent of the immortals) is a disgusting condition with an awful, nauseating smell.

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