Olfactory Cues Quotes

Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.

The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway to the world around them.

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.

Smells definitely do have a crazy impact on me.

I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.

I'll believe it if I see it" for dogs translates to "I'll believe it if I smell it." So don't bother yelling at them; it's the energy and scent they pay attention to, not your words.

Scent has become a way for me to differentiate characters.

I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.

In humans, smell is often viewed as an aesthetic sense, as a sense capable of eliciting enduring thoughts and memories. Smell, however, is the primal sense. It is the sense that affords most organisms the ability to detect food, predators, and mates.

Women apparently are quite drawn to men who have differences rather than similarities in their histocompatibility system. They pick it up by smell, and they can pick it up from kissing.

A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us in vestigial ways of fertility, vigor, life-force, all the optimism, expectancy, and passionate bloom of youth. We inhale its ardent aroma and, no matter what our ages, we feel young and nubile in a world aflame with desire.

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

Odor carries a great deal of information, including information about a potential mate's age, sex, fertility, identity, emotions, and health.

Let him smell his way to Dover!