Scent Quotes

• Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Food, Years

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• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

  Diane Ackerman

  Summer, Nature, Memories

  "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.

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• Scent is the strongest tie to memory.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Memories, Ties, Strongest

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.741, Scholastic Inc.

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• The cup of tea on arrival at a country house is a thing which, as a rule, I particularly enjoy. I like the crackling logs, the shaded lights, the scent of buttered toast, the general atmosphere of leisured cosiness.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Country, Light, House

  P.G. Wodehouse (2009). “The Code of the Woosters: (Jeeves & Wooster)”, p.56, Random House

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• No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

  Samuel Johnson

  Appreciation, Spring, Flower

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.119, Univ of California Press

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• Smell is the primordial sense, more powerful, more primitive, more intimately tied to our memories and emotions than any other. A scent can trigger spiritual, emotional or physical peace and stimulate healing and wellness.

  Donna Karan

  Spiritual, Memories, Powerful

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• Real beauty is created when you are feeling good inside, whether that means being healthy, feeling confident or just wearing your favorite scent.

  Koo Stark

  Real, Mean, Feel Good

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

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Life

  Gwendolyn Brooks (2005). “The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks”, p.17, Library of America

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• Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Underestimated

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• Every scent is the sun's scent.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Sun

  "The Creator" by Dejan Stojanovic, Tvoritelj, Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd, "The Land," (p. 91), 2000.

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• A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

  Jean Cocteau

  Nurse, Rose, Poetry

  Jean Cocteau (1926*). “A Call to Order, Written Between the Years 1918 and 1926 and Including "Cock and Harlequin", "Professional Secrets", and Other Critical Essays”

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• Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Nature, Past, Smell

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• Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.

  Heinrich Heine

  Nature, Flower, Smell

  Heinrich Heine, Charles Godfrey Leland (1995). “The Harz journey”, Marsilio Pub

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

  Ramakrishna

  World, Deer, Spirituality

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• 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.

  Alber Elbaz

  Stories, Emotion, Captivating

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• 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.

  Patrick Süskind

  Stronger, Odor, Emotion

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• Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Wise, Nature, Memories

  Thalassa Cruso (1990). “The Gardening Year”, Lyons Press

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• The scent is sweet and meloncholy. A bit like dying, a bit like falling in love.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Sweet, Falling In Love, Dying

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  A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

  Christian Dior

  Love, Fashion, Women

  "Saving the Whales". Book by D. R. Schneider (p. 77), September 1, 2008.

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

  Marcel Proust

  Sound, Climate, Vases

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume VI: Time Regained (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.289, Modern Library

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

  Lexa Doig

  Signatures, Missions

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• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

  Diane Ackerman

  Love, Summer, Beach

  "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.

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• Good shoes and a good scent make the perfect day.

  Nia Long

  Perfect Days, Shoes, Perfect

  "Nia Long's Simple Two-Step Trick for Instantly Brighter Skin". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. August 14, 2014.

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• If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Spring, Flower, Rose

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• You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

  Thomas Moore

  Rose, May, Vases

  'Irish Melodies' (1807) 'Farewell!-but whenever'

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