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“Humans are better equipped for sight than for smell. We process visual input ten times faster than olfactory.”

— Mary Roach

“...certain smells were the custodians of memory. And once they were unleashed, their effect was instantaneous, like switching on a light – flooding the…

— Kathleen Tessaro

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

— Lyall Watson

Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

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

— Iain Banks

“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

The smell rewards the care.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Fernando Pessoa