Smell Quotes by Patrick Süskind

“Virtually drowning in himself, he could not for the life of him smell himself.”

— Patrick Süskind

Odours have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions or will. The persuasive power of an odour cannot…

— Patrick Süskind

This perfume was not like any perfume known before. It was not a scent that made things smell better... it was completely…

— Patrick Süskind

“And the awful thing was that Grenouille, although he knew that this odour was his odour, could not smell it. Virtually drowning…

— Patrick Süskind

He possessed the power. He held it in his hand. A power stronger than the power of money or the power of…

— Patrick Süskind

“Although he had used it very sparingly, the perfume that he had mixed in Montpellier was slowly was slowly running out. He…

— Patrick Süskind

“On the other hand, everyday language soon would prove inadequate for designating all the olfactory notions that he had accumulated within himself.…

— Patrick Süskind

“The rivers stank, the marketplaces stank, the churches stank, it stank beneath the bridges and in the palaces. The peasant stank as…

— Patrick Süskind

“He had used only a drop of his perfume for his performance in Grasse. There was enough left to enslave the whole…

— Patrick Süskind

For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they…

— Patrick Süskind

“This scent had a freshness, but not the freshness of limes or pomegranates, not the freshness of myrrh or cinnamon bark or…

— Patrick Suskind

“In the period of which we speak, there reigned in the cities a stench barely conceivable to us modern men and women.…

— Patrick Suskind