Sense of Smell Quotes

Sometimes smell can take you back to places.

I think sighted people let their eyes cheat them out of certain things. People who can see don't have a great sense of smell because they don't use it.

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

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

We humans will never know how meadows or mountains smell, but deer and horses and pigs do. Bando sniffs deeply and shakes his head. We were left out when it comes to smelling things, he says. I would love to be able to smell a mountain and follow my nose to it.

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little.

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.

An inferior sense of smell," Marcus said, as if absolutely nothing of significance had happened, "is distinct from being told that one smells unpleasant.

Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.

Smells definitely do have a crazy impact on me.

He has, like me, a sense of smell. I let him inhale me, then I slip away.

Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.

For me, a fragrance is another way of leaving an impression on somebody.

Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff and touch it. With their unparalleled sense of smell, the animals know exactly what they are going for. Vision is secondary.

Smells are so powerful and evocative, sometimes stronger than visual cues.

Smell is the primordial sense, more powerful, more primitive, more intimately tied to our memories and emotions than any other. A scent can trigger spiritual, emotional or physical peace and stimulate healing and wellness.

Roja Dove believes that by test and experimentation - by a sort of psychoanalysis via fragrance - you can find the flavors and smells that connect you both to the here and now and to memories of the past.

Any woman who is currently with a man is with him partly because she loves the way he smells.

Women have a better sense of smell than men do, and it's even sharper in the middle of their menstrual cycle, when estrogen levels peak and women are more likely to be deciding whether a man's attractive.

As far as I'm concerned, attraction, in its most rudimentary form, comes from the way a person naturally smells. I'd say that within the first five seconds of 'inhaling' someone, I know if there's an attraction or not. This may sound animalistic - and it is.

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

I should like to raise the question whether the inevitable stunting of the sense of smell as a result of man's turning away from the earth, and the organic repression of the smell-pleasure produced by it, does not largely share in his predisposition to nervous diseases.

If you're walking down the street and you smell a scent, it can take you right back to a memorable time in your life, whether it's a moment with an ex-girlfriend or a childhood event.

Different fragrances promote different emotions, and I find that fragrance gets me in the frame of mind for that person.

I have very heightened senses - not just my hearing but my sense of smell.