Scent Quotes · Page 10

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

— Richard Flanagan

I'm totally on a mission to find my signature scent, but I'm too mercurial.

— Lexa Doig

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

— Samuel Johnson

In the embrace's release I caught the scent again. Unmistakable. Marijuana. These homos were high as kites.

— Emily M. Danforth

The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.

— L'Wren Scott

Wind howled throught the night, carrying the scent that would change the world.

— Christopher Paolini

That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

— Francis Bacon

You may go a long time without winning, but you never forget that scent.

— Steve Busby

“Our walks smell less and less like tar and more and more like pine and burning leaves and the scent that gets…

— Laura A.H. Elliott

The effect of scent is really interesting. It can create a mood and change a feeling immediately. I wanted to create a…

— Aerin Lauder

This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“On the leaves, raindrops sparkle like jewels, while the ground releases that fragrance, the scent of wet earth, invigorating and earthy.”

— David Passarelli

A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized…

— W. H. Auden

And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent…

— Peter Ackroyd

So great is the economy of nature, that most flowers which are fertilised by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odour chiefly…

— Charles Darwin

Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens, install picture…

— Diane Ackerman

“Spirits carry an ozone scent, and demons smell like sulfur or rotten eggs. A person might not even consciously register the smell,…

— J.D. Horn

“Bit it was her scent that just about killed him. Clean skin. Woman. And something more—something that made him feel like dispensing…

— Pamela Clare

My grandmother always used to wear this English perfume called Tuberose and then she died and then I dated this girl who…

— Mark Ronson

“I never saw your face that night. But I never forgot your scent. Sometimes, I'd be sitting in class or walking through…

— Cassia Leo

I often have a few scents depending on if I'm playing a character. The character may be wearing a scent that perhaps…

— Cate Blanchett

I warn you, Kelsey, that I'm an extremely patient man. I've had extensive practice in waiting out the enemy. My life as…

— Colleen Houck

“Rocinante felt the desire to pleasure himself with the ladies, and as soon as he picked up their scent he abandoned his…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Han spotted a child‟s homespun dolly in the ditch, pressed into the mud. He reined in, meaning to climb down and fetch…

— Cinda Williams Chima

Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.

— Bert Greene

“Perfume is the scent that pours out of a flower's soul when crushed.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

Down the hill I went, and then, I forgot the ways of men, For night-scents, heady and damp and cool Wakened ecstasy

— Sara Teasdale

Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.

— Elizabeth Goudge

The scent of frying astronomers long ago ceased to ascend to Yahweh.

— H. L. Mencken

A waft of sweet hash drifted by, and I wanted to float after it like Wimpy levitating at the scent of a…

— Jerry Stahl

The first one who smelt it ain't the one who delt it. Black Eyed Peas keep the scent blind like delta.

— Will I Am

Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.

— Arthur Miller

Sisters share the scent and smells--the feel of a common childhood.

— Pam Brown

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

— Gao Xingjian

A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.

— Shakira

Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.

— Erin Morgenstern

I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.

— Red Smith

I truly do feel like scent can change your mood and the feeling in a room.

— Tish Cyrus

“He smelled the girl. Penny Dawson. She had a wonderful scent.”

— Dean Koontz