Scent famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The effect of scent is really interesting. It can create a mood and change a feeling immediately. I wanted to create a modern wardrobe of fragrances ... fragrances that can be very personal to the woman who's wearing them.
-- Aerin Lauder -
I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.
-- Al Pacino -
In my song you catch at times Note sweeter far than mine, And in the tangle of my rhymes Can scent the eglantine.
-- Alfred Austin -
Scents as well as clothes and hairstyles can go a long way in revealing a part of yourself
-- Anne Hathaway -
There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
I wanted to imprint his touch, his taste, even the scent of him so solidly inside me that no one could take them away from me.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
Proust had his madeleines; I am devastated by the scent of yeast bread rising.
-- Bert Greene -
Money does not smell of the mire whence it came; it has the glorious scent of what will be.
-- Catulle Mendes -
Obviously I want the fragrance to smell good. I tell people all the time that when you see someone there can obviously be a physical attraction, but scent is something that stays with you. It's something that you remember about a person.
-- Chris Paul -
I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it
-- Cormac McCarthy -
The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Ah! my heart is weary waiting, Waiting for the May: Waiting for the pleasant rambles Where the fragrant hawthorn brambles, Where the woodbine alternating, Scent the dewy way; Ah! my heart is weary, waiting, Waiting for the May.
-- Denis Florence MacCarthy -
What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.
-- Elizabeth Goudge -
The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky.
-- Elizabeth Oakes Smith -
The camembert with its venison scent defeats the Marolles and Limbourg dull smells; It spreads its exhalation, smothering the other scents under its surprising breath abundance.
-- Emile Zola -
In the embrace's release I caught the scent again. Unmistakable. Marijuana. These homos were high as kites.
-- Emily M. Danforth -
Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative.
-- Erin Morgenstern -
The radiation of radium was "contagious"-Contagious like a persistent scent or a disease. It was impossible for an object, a plant, an animal or a person to be left near a tube of radium without immediately acquiring a notable "activity" which a sensitive apparatus could detect.
-- Eve Curie -
Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Body odour (known also as scent of the immortals) is a disgusting condition with an awful, nauseating smell.
-- Gao Xingjian -
It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent.
-- George Eliot -
For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.
-- George Gissing -
Just Cavalli for Her is a flowery and sexy fragrance. I like its freshness and feminine scent.
-- Georgia May Jagger -
Long strands of drool stretched from between his fangs and dripped on the pavement, sending a heady scent of jasmine to swirl through the air. Perfumed monster spit. What was the world coming to?
-- Ilona Andrews -
It's a strange feeling, being so utterly surrounded by her. Her life scent is on everything. She's on me and under me and next to me. It's as if the entire room is made out of her.
-- Isaac Marion -
That scent she threw off was not anything by Chanel. Unless they’d recently added a Tragedy line.
-- J.R. Ward -
The larvae! The scent of young blood entices and draws them closer. There's no need to venture into antiquity to evoke the shades of the dead.
-- Jean Lorrain -
If only there was a way I could cover my tension with the scent of eau de brass valls instead.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
Questers of the truth, that’s who dogs are; seekers after the invisible scent of another being’s authentic core.
-- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson -
A waft of sweet hash drifted by, and I wanted to float after it like Wimpy levitating at the scent of a hamburger.
-- Jerry Stahl -
Words can be applied as one might put on a scent, such as perfume. Some scents are so wonderful and others are sickening... titles can be the same.
-- Jim Hodges -
The fragrance that suits me best is Romance by Ralph Lauren. It seems to blend into my chemistry, so it is nice and subtle. I don't like to be doused in scent. This one is feminine, fresh and a bit musky.
-- Joanne Froggatt -
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.
-- John Muir -
I'm thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down.
-- Johnny Cash -
When the seasons shift, even the subtle beginning, the scent of a promised change, I feel something stir inside me. Hopefulness? Gratitude? Openness? Whatever it is, it's welcome.
-- Kristin Armstrong -
I'm totally on a mission to find my signature scent, but I'm too mercurial.
-- Lexa Doig -
I fell asleep to the scent of my wolf. Pine needles, cold rain, earthy perfume, coarse bristles on my face.
-- Maggie Stiefvater -
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.
-- Marc Bloch -
An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.
-- Marcel Proust -
If I could/bind myself to this moment, to the slow//snare of its scent/what would it matter if I became//just the flutter of page/in a text someone turns//to examine me/in the wrong color?
-- Mary Szybist -
No scent is more sensual or more memorable to me than musk.
-- Narciso Rodriguez -
Nature’s constantly screaming with all its shapes and scents: love each other! Love each other! Do as the flowers. There’s only love.
-- Octave Mirbeau -
Most of the oils which are valued as scents are mixtures of substances; only the combined effect of these leads to the known result.
-- Otto Wallach -
Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.
-- Pablo Picasso -
He had preserved the best part of her and made it his own: the principle of her scent.
-- Patrick Süskind -
He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.
-- Patrick Süskind -
rush of pine scent (once upon a time), the unlicensed conviction there ought to be another way of saying this.
-- Paul Celan -
Fruits ... like having their portrait painted. They seem to sit there and ask your forgiveness for fading. Their thought is given off with their perfumes. They come with all their scents, they speak of the fields they have left, the rain which has nourished them, the daybreaks they have seen.
-- Paul Cezanne -
The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.
-- Ramakrishna -
A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic.
-- Rebecca Wells -
I like to get where the cabbage is cooking and catch the scents.
-- Red Smith -
I love the scent of burnt flesh in the morning.
-- Sgt. Slaughter -
A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.
-- Shakira -
If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure.
-- Shmuel Yosef Agnon -
You have to do something. If you do something, you become somebody. Even a daffodil does something, has a profession. It gives off scent, professionally.
-- Stella Adler -
You may go a long time without winning, but you never forget that scent.
-- Steve Busby -
I loved the scent of the wallflowers in the evening.
-- Terence Stamp -
If Leekes you like, but do their smell dis-like, Eat Onyons, and you shall not smell the Leeke; If you of Onyons would the scent expell, Eat Garlicke, that shall drowne the Onyons' smell.
-- William Kitchiner -
I'm going to create a very strong scent which can kill a boy!
-- Yohji Yamamoto -
In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away.
-- Yosa Buson -
So quiet...it's like...all the sounds in the world...have been stopped...only you scent...in the deepest part of my heart...echoing...
-- Yuu Watase -
As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with scent in the perfume department.
-- Zoe Tapper -
The perfumer fakes nature by blending different types of materials to reproduce their scent.
-- Francis Kurkdjian
