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“Hydrogen sulfide is so swiftly lethal that farm- and workplace-safety organizations urge anyone who enters a manure pit or attempts to clear a blocked…

— Mary Roach

“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 the shortest synaptic leap in the brain to our memory, and I'm amazed that people don't sniff everything.

— Richard E. Grant

It doesn't smell of sulphur any more. No, it smells of something else. It smells of hope, and you have to have hope in…

— Hugo Chavez

Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell. An…

— Oliver Sacks

Everyone is obsessed with air fresheners. We associate smell with disgust. But we're all locked into the body; we can't escape it.

— Glen Duncan

“Fully 3 percent of our entire genome is devoted to genes for detecting different odors. Each of these genes makes a receptor for an…

— Neil Shubin

I'm just a huge fan of smells, first of all. I have a bit of an obsession with smells.

— Jessica Stroup

The smell rewards the care.

— Thomas Jefferson

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of…

— Ian Fleming

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

— Will Cotton