Scent Quotes

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.

He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.

Words can be applied as one might put on a scent, such as perfume. Some scents are so wonderful and others are sickening... titles can be the same.

Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.

An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.

The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

A fragrance is a veritable story, told and explained in scent, in notes, in impressions. It's a score based on the emotions of each instant, a captivating music of the senses.

I love the scent of burnt flesh in the morning.

In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away.

He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.

Obviously I want the fragrance to smell good. I tell people all the time that when you see someone there can obviously be a physical attraction, but scent is something that stays with you. It's something that you remember about a person.

You should put scent where you like to be kissed.

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.

Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.

I’ll have you know that the most delicate flowers often produce the strongest scent when crushed.

I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down.

Vinegar: that's what fear smells like.

For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.

You want the scent? Smell yourself!

I'm going to create a very strong scent which can kill a boy!

What kind of alchemy could create a perfume that would make a reaction to a person lukewarm, indifferent and apathetic?If such a scent could be made I'd like some.

Scent has become a way for me to differentiate characters.

The claw of the magnolia, drunk on its own scents, asks nothing of life.

When we read, it is not ours to absorb all that is written. Our thoughts are jealous and they constantly blank out the thoughts of others, for there is not room enough in us for two scents at one time.

When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome.

No scent is more sensual or more memorable to me than musk.

I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.

Scents as well as clothes and hairstyles can go a long way in revealing a part of yourself

In the embrace's release I caught the scent again. Unmistakable. Marijuana. These homos were high as kites.

Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.

This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark.

The radiation of radium was "contagious"-Contagious like a persistent scent or a disease. It was impossible for an object, a plant, an animal or a person to be left near a tube of radium without immediately acquiring a notable "activity" which a sensitive apparatus could detect.

It's a strange feeling, being so utterly surrounded by her. Her life scent is on everything. She's on me and under me and next to me. It's as if the entire room is made out of her.

A waft of sweet hash drifted by, and I wanted to float after it like Wimpy levitating at the scent of a hamburger.

I have thus decided to make a certain film and now begins the complicated and difficult-to-master work. To transfer rhythms, moods, atmosphere, tensions, sequences, tones and scents into words and sentences in a readable or at least understandable script. This is difficult but not impossible.

I'm totally on a mission to find my signature scent, but I'm too mercurial.

There are no women who do not like perfume, there are women who have not found their scent.

Money does not smell of the mire whence it came; it has the glorious scent of what will be.

The effect of scent is really interesting. It can create a mood and change a feeling immediately. I wanted to create a modern wardrobe of fragrances ... fragrances that can be very personal to the woman who's wearing them.

When I feel something in my gut, I can feel it physically. But my instincts seem to come from a different place - they feel headier to me, and I get the wrong scent, and go off on these whims where I think that something is happening when it's not.

Ah! my heart is weary waiting, Waiting for the May: Waiting for the pleasant rambles Where the fragrant hawthorn brambles, Where the woodbine alternating, Scent the dewy way; Ah! my heart is weary, waiting, Waiting for the May.

Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear

God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent.

As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching or vomitting in some persons.