Chimneys Quote by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

— Michel Serres

I have never cared very deeply about the actual taste of my work. Let its essential odor satisfy my mind and senses, and I…

— Elinor Wylie

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

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Taste, like smell, is a doorman for the digestive tract, a chemical scan for possibly dangerous (bitter, sour) elements and desirable (salty, sweet) nutrients.”

— Mary Roach

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Judging someone you don't know, is like describing the taste of food from it aroma, not everything that smells so good taste so good,…

— Blaze Olamiday

Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.

— Diane Ackerman

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

— Will Cotton

“Taste—as in personal preference, discernment—is subjective. It’s ephemeral, shaped by trends and fads. It’s one part mouth and nose, two parts ego. Even flavors…

— Mary Roach

“Flavor is a combination of taste (sensory input from the surface of the tongue) and smell, but mostly it’s the latter. Humans perceive five…

— Mary Roach

Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats…

— E. F. Benson

Look, taste is clearly the crudest of our senses: this is scientifically, objectively factual. It is less nuanced. Eyesight is extraordinary - hearing, touch.…

— Jonathan Safran Foer