320 Quotes About Smell
- Author Sarah Perry
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He drew in a breath and all the seasons were in it; spring greenness in the grass, and somewhere a dog-rose blooming; the secretive scent of fungus clinging to the oak, and underneath it all something sharper waiting in a promise of winter.
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- Author Becky Chambers
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When you smell that, how do you... how do you process that? Is it just a list of chemicals?''I'm not sure. I'll find out.' Sidra took the tin, manoeuvred it to the kit's nose, and pulled in air.The image was there without warning, leaping to the front of all other external input - a sleeping cat, sprawled on its back in a puddle of sunlight, fur mussed, pink toes splayed sweetly - then gone, just as fast.
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- Author Bee Wilson
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Molecules that look near-identical to a specialist chemist lab will be easily distinguished by an ordinary person who smells them.
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- Author Patrick Süskind
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The odour of humans is always a fleshy odour — that is, a sinful odour.
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- Author Dominic Riccitello
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I smell him in intervals, in varieties, in ways I don’t quite understand.
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- Author Alice Randall
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We are taught to think ourselves ugly. Eyes are an assaulted sense. We are taught to behave by spankings and whippings. Touch is an assaulted sense. We are taught we should not smell, or we smell wrong. Smell is an assaulted sense. We listen to songs that call us 'hos and tell us how to give blow jobs. Hearing is an assaulted sense. Taste, not so much.
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- Author Народна мъдрост
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Ако не искате да миришете на лук, изяжте две скилидки чесън.
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- Author P. J. O'Rourke
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Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Air freshener is man’s pitiful attempt to have his food smell as good, after digestion, as they did, before ingestion.
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