olfactory pleasure Quotes

A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it.

It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.

Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.

I have never cared very deeply about the actual taste of my work. Let its essential odor satisfy my mind and senses, and I am content. I rarely judge by the grosser test of actual gustation ... in cooking, to create a masterpiece for the nose alone - that is exquisite, that is Art!

Embrace good smells. No cost, no calories, no energy, no time - a quick hit of pleasure.

And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.

I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise.

I don't eat bubble gum, but I like the smell.

I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

I love just going into stores and testing fragrances. The smell of a fragrance is kind of like hearing a song, it makes you feel something that's really unique to you and can be quite exciting.

I like chocolate. I don’t eat it, but I like the smell of it. People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose. I would love to have a perfume based on chocolate.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.