Olfactory Memories Quotes

Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma.

It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita

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.

Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.

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.

Certain scents can evoke so much feeling, nostalgia, and trigger beautiful memories.

Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.

Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.

Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?

Smell can conjure up memories for me stronger than any other sense. Especially childhood memories. Perhaps because you were that much shorter and therefore closer to the ground and its smells.

I am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from the past, people, events.