Closest Quote by Caryl Rivers

Smell is the shortest synaptic leap in the brain to our memory, and I'm amazed that people don't sniff everything.

— Richard E. Grant

Our bodies are the time machine.

— Rudy Rucker

Sometimes smell can take you back to places.

— Aditya Roy Kapur

Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.

— Lyall Watson

“Humans are better equipped for sight than for smell. We process visual input ten times faster than olfactory.”

— Mary Roach

I remember specific times and people in my life so much more clearly if I smell something that brings me back to them.

— Margot Robbie

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

— Helen Keller

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Smells are so powerful and evocative, sometimes stronger than visual cues.

— Will Cotton

“It is a truism among researchers into smell that all human subjects behave as if they themselves do not smell like humans, because all…

— Lyall Watson

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

— Iain Banks