Perfumes Quote by Kathleen Tessaro

“Smell is such a powerful sense; capable of bringing memory to the mind more powerfully than sight or sound. There is nothing that can…

— Anonymous

“Smells are custodians of memories.”

— Kathleen Tessaro

“fragrance was the sharpest trigger of memory, a transport into forgotten worlds.”

— Anne Rice

“You see, nothing is more immediate, more complete than the sense of smell. In an instant, it has the power to transport you. Your…

— Kathleen Tessaro

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“The sense of smell, that mysterious aid to memory, had just revived a whole world within him.”

— Victor Hugo

The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory.

— Mary Stewart

“...memory can restore to life everything except smells, although nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”

— Vladimir Nabokov

But it was smell that carried memory.

— Ann Brashares

“An astonishing, curdled smell that had subtle layers of foulness for the nose to explore.”

— Andrew Michael Hurley

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

— Fernando Pessoa

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

— Will Cotton