One might trouble one's dainty snout with a whiff of the taleggio displayed in an artisanal cheese shop, or take a saucer of jasmine tea and a knuckle of fennel-scented snuff at a counter of buffed Big Nothing granite. But there was a want in these ladies yet, and it was for the rude life of youth.

Kevin Barry

Tags: perception taste savor odor smell hallucination flavor sensuous exotic exotic-sensory-experience sensory-world



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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

Tags: smell



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And the awful thing was that Grenouille, although he knew that this odour was his odour, could not smell it. Virtually drowning in himself, he could not for the life of him smell himself!

Patrick Süskind

Tags: perfume drowning smell odour



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I´ve read that it´s the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell of its own fear will kill it.

Jo Nesbø

Tags: fear victim smell prey harry-hole jo-nesbø the-snowman



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

Patrick Süskind

Tags: principle virginity perfume virgin scent smell preservation preserve murderer olfactory the-story-of-a-murderer



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My nose remembers more than my eyes. The sharp oily smell of eucalyptus combines with afternoon dust from the hockey field. But my heart feels the different then and now.

Phyllis Theroux

Tags: heart scent smell nose



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I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.

Neil Gaiman

Tags: reading books wonderful smell sexy



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Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world.

Ian Fleming

Tags: earth smell sulphur



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There are seventy-five perfumes, which it is very necessary that a criminal expert should be able to distinguish from each other, and cases have more than once within my own experience depended upon their prompt recognition.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Tags: science dogs smell



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I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Tags: death danger london driving smell grim-reaper corner motorbike



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