Olfactory Quote by Mary Roach

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

“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

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

— Iain Banks

“Smell is the only faculty that accesses the limbic instantly. All other stimuli take longer to register, hence, the importance of odors.”

— P.M.H. Atwater

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

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“It's strange how quickly the significance of a certain smell can change, depending on what path it decides to take through the brain. It's…

— Fredrik Backman

“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 closest thing human beings have to a time machine.

— Caryl Rivers

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

— Lyall Watson

It is almost as hard for us to sense our own species quality as it is to sense our species smell.

— Lois Crisler