Olfactory Stimuli Quotes

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

Smell is the shortest synaptic leap in the brain to our memory, and I'm amazed that people don't sniff everything.

I'm very sensitive to smells.

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

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

Smells definitely do have a crazy impact on me.

Any woman who is currently with a man is with him partly because she loves the way he smells. And if we haven't smelled you for a day or two and then we suddenly are within inches of you, we swoon. We get light-headed. It's intoxicating. It's heady.

When you turn from one room to the next, when your animal senses no longer perceive the sounds of the dishwasher, the ticking clock, the smell of a chicken roasting - the kitchen and all its seemingly discrete bits dissolve into nothingness - or into waves of probability.

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

Pictures are as evocative to me as smells.

When I write about things, it's a lot to do with sense memory. How things smell and taste can bring incredible memories flooding back and transport you in an instant to another time and place.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

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

Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.

The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.

My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.

Music and smells are the most memory-recall, nostalgia-inducing things.

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.

You're right. Everyone in this room with a pulse is starting to smell really good. Okay. Back in the box, better safe than sorry.