Powerful Quote by Will Cotton

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

— Fernando Pessoa

The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.

— Thalassa Cruso

Smell is incredibly important and sensual; it communicates who you are.

— Anonymous

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

— Lyall Watson

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

— Iain Banks

Smell is the primordial sense, more powerful, more primitive, more intimately tied to our memories and emotions than any other. A scent can trigger…

— Donna Karan

Smell is important. It reminds a person of all the things he's been through; it is a sheath of memories and security.

— Tove Jansson

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

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

— Mary Roach

When someone smells good, they're automatically more attractive!!

— Anonymous

Reason is sight. Instinct is touch. Intuition is smell.

— Mason Cooley