Olfactory Signals 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.

The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some kinds of odour well, and is kind to sound - letting it travel several times faster than air will allow, but it inhibits other more personal kinds of communication.

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

Tsornin's nostrils showed red, but his ears were as alert as ever, and occasionally he would rub his nose gently against the nape of her neck, just in case she was momentarily not thinking about him.

Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.

Smell is incredibly important and sensual; it communicates who you are.

She took my hand and pulled me after her, her shoulders giving off a sweet peppermint concoction that the bodies of young women sometimes produce to make my life more difficult.

I emitted some civetlike female stink, a distinct perfume of sexual wanting, that he had followed to find me here in the dark.

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.

Winds are advertisements of all they touch, however much or little we may be able to read them; telling their wanderings even by their scents alone.