The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all around him. She had become a physical necessity. – George Orwell 1984. Part 2, Chapter 4. Winston’s desire for Julia.
This is what I grew up on in Alsace. It’s choucroute. I’d wake up every morning with the smell of cabbage and potatoes and pork. – Jean-Georges Vongerichten
Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so. – Iain Banks
The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell. – Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
If I really like the smell of something – a piece of tar or my goddaughter’s plastic doll – I put a tiny piece in a bottle with a label. I keep them in a fridge in my bathroom. – Mika
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? – Friedrich Nietzsche
I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands – there’s really no substitute. – Nathan Fillion
Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn’t get past Hugo. – Mickey Spillane
I don’t wear cologne. I do occasionally, but anytime I take a shower, I just put on deodorant. That’s basically what I smell like. – Mads Mikkelsen
My studio is not arty. It doesn’t smell of turpentine, and I’m not knee-high in paper. – Robert Ingpen
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it. – Vladimir Nabokov
The smell of onion is the most effective thing for relieving stinging eyes irritated by tear gas. – Sayed Kashua
