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“My nose remembers more than my eyes. The sharp oily smell of eucalyptus combines with afternoon dust from the hockey field. But my heart…

— Phyllis Theroux

“There was no woodsy fragrance blowing through my room, and the snail, especially while it lived in the pot of violets, must have been…

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

“I brought the bathing suit to my face, then rubbed my face inside of it, as if I were trying to snuggle into it…

— André Aciman

“The smell of the eucalyptus had wafted for miles offshore from Albany, and when the scent faded away he was suddenly sick at the…

— M.L. Stedman

Emerald green chain smells like brussels sprouts.

— Riff Raff

“Whenever I smelled the same perfume on other women, no matter where I was, I was instantly transported back to that feeling of discovery.…

— Reif Larsen

“The smells arose from everything, everywhere, flowing together and remaining as a sickening, tantalizing discomfort. They flowed from the delicatessen shop with its uncovered…

— E.R. Braithwaite

My headshot is a scratch and sniff, it smells like failure and onions.

— Zach Galifianakis

There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slime—oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in sticky dollops,…

— Diana Wynne Jones

“Once inside, Dennis almost keeled over from the smell of cooked cabbage. Why was it that any girl he took out had a house…

— Paul Zindel

The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look down into…

— Doris Lessing

“Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its…

— Michael Ondaatje