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the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.

— Margaret Millar

“I could hear the crickets and tree frogs starting their night song in the small, wooded area behind us. A faint smell of lilac…

— Laura Miller, Butterfly Weeds

The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.

— Margaret Millar

My grandmother had a lilac bush at her home in Long Island. I always associate the scent of it with her and try to…

— Aerin Lauder

“The scent of flowers grew stronger and came from all sides; the grass was drenched with dew; a nightingale struck up in a lilac…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Out of the fresh little green hearts of their foliage the lilacs raised inquisitively over the fence of the park their plumes of white…

— Marcel Proust

“... in the garden where the lilacs were so tall it was impossible to see the road. The leaves were dusty, the way they…

— Alice Hoffman

The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there…

— Oscar Wilde

Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a…

— Stevie Smith

“As the lilac-scented breeze carries the memories...there remains the lingering reminder of the times we hold in deep...for to love deeply and live deeply……

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

Lilacs are May in essence.

— Jean Hersey

I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a…

— Angus Wilson