Association Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Smell is the primordial sense, more powerful, more primitive, more intimately tied to our memories and emotions than any other. A scent can trigger…

— Donna Karan

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

— Will Cotton

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

— Lyall Watson

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived. The odors of fruits waft…

— Anonymous

Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

— Fernando Pessoa

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

— Iain Banks

Smell is incredibly important and sensual; it communicates who you are.

— Anonymous

Smell and taste differentiate, whereas language, like sight and hearing, integrates.

— Michel Serres

Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.

— Diane Ackerman

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

— Eric Hoffer