Air Quote by William Golding

Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!

— Jules Verne

“While the indecisive customer hovered over an array of perfumes that Nettle had brought out for her, the American girls browsed among the shelves…

— Lisa Kleypas

The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over…

— William C. Bryant

“Their color slowly faded from out of the flowers; but their scent lingered to honey the air he breathed.”

— EM Forster

It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden…

— Ellen Glasgow

“People only picked the pretty, sweet-smelling flowers. The ones with thorns were left alone.”

— Nenia Campbell

And where she went, the flowers took thickest root, As she had sow'd them with her odorous foot.

— Ben Jonson

“And suddenly it smelled like someone forgot to turn on the gravity. The air was so fresh and light you could practically float on…

— Jennifer Gooch Hummer

Where have all the flowers gone

— Marlene Dietrich

Traced the scent through the gloom 'til I found these purple flowers. I was spent, I was soon. Smelling you for hours.

— Ruthie Foster

As fog moved to the mainland I heard a flock of birds fly over. They sounded like a dress rustling, a dress being unfastened…

— Gretel Ehrlich