Scent Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Scent

Scent Quotes & Sayings

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There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book. — Arthur Conan Doyle

The scent of a faraway place lay on my skin. — Scott Westerfeld

The day was grey and bitter cold, and the dogs would not take the scent. — George R R Martin

Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose. — Alex Flinn

The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world. — Jean Cocteau

Don't take me under your wing and tell me that scent is duck sauce — Josh Stern

A breeze had come up and there was the scent of loam in the air. Hay and fertilizer. Sweet grass and wild ginger. April. — Alice Hoffman

Never divulge your cologne. Next thing you know, all the women around you will be wearing your special scent. And it won't be special anymore. — Gale Martin

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

Sandstorm's sweet scent all around him. — Erin Hunter

Mmm, freshly baked cookies. Even better, the rich, buttery scent had conquered the usual mothball odor. — Kristin Bartley Lenz

Tracked the kits' trail and it met another. The heather was drenched with Tom's scent. Turtle Tail recognized it at once. — Erin Hunter

I inhale his dark scent, and I have the overwhelming feeling of coming home — Katie McGarry

Wind howled throught the night, carrying the scent that would change the world. — Christopher Paolini

She found a seat in the corner and sat down, opening the cover and breathing in the glorious dusty scent of papery possibility. — Kate Morton

It was a magnificent day; the skies were electric blue, and a crystal breeze carried the cool scent of autumn and the sea. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The hawk had filled the house with wildness as a bowl of lilies fills a house with scent. — Helen Macdonald

Marissa in a long creamy gown. The cop in front of her, stroking her face, evidently poleaxed. All around them, the delicious scent of sex in the air. — J.R. Ward

In the village, a sage should go about
Like a bee, which, not harming
Flower, colour or scent,
Flies off with the nectar. — Anonymous

Scents as well as clothes and hairstyles can go a long way in revealing a part of yourself — Anne Hathaway

The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Cobbles are enormously evocative, like the scent of forgotten objects and remembered melodies. — Justin Cartwright

The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers ... Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island. — William Golding

Schiller needed the scent of apples rotting in his desk in order to write. I, too, have my needs. — John Kennedy Toole

The Hawk's keen nose is picking up the scent of a COWARD! Right . . . about . . . HERE! he snarled, and pointed at ME! — Rachel Renee Russell

The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew. — William Carlos Williams

I like it more to come to a place like this, where the scent of death
is carried to you on every seventh breath. — Kendare Blake

Charley was twenty-six, with that faint musk of weakness hanging about him that is often mistaken for the scent of evil. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I was nearly drunk on her scent before I even tasted her. — Meredith Wild

I'm a massive fragrance fan - I think fragrance is part of someone's hygiene, and I'm a big believer in leaving an impression through scent. — Rita Ora

The feeling of freedom and scent of sea air are intoxicating. As the wind picks up, I gain speed, holding on to life with a capital L — Laurie Nadel

Pray as if all things depend on God, and work as if all things depend on you. — Christina Dodd

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things? — L.M. Montgomery

Women waste so much time wearing no perfume. As for me, in every step that I have taken in life, I have been accompanied by an exquisite perfume! — C. JoyBell C.

There are no women who do not like perfume, there are women who have not found their scent. — Marilyn Monroe

One small hand lifted to the shower head and he stilled. He'd yet to see her skin; the dragon had claimed her on scent alone. — Setta Jay

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out. — John Bunyan

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

There were no larks anymore. There was only the setting sun spreading blood up the sky and the yowl of hounds on a breast-high scent. — Sam Llewellyn

Savannah must remain his. He drew a last breath, taking her scent into his body and holding it there as his heart ceased to beat. — Christine Feehan

He was the smell of winter rain and the sound of his predator's heartbeat — L.J.Smith

Not knowing the name of the tree,
I stood in the flood
of its sweet scent. — Matsuo Basho

The scent of book leather and lemons enveloped him, and his head went light. Books and clean woman. Had God ever divined a more perfect perfume? — Kristen Callihan

For most vampires, it's an automatic response - scent blood, fangs drop. — J.A. London

Rush of pine scent (once upon a time),
the unlicensed conviction
there ought to be another way
of saying
this. — Paul Celan

Already the scent of victory is in the air. — Wesley Clark

I want to feel intoxicated from inhaling the scent of you. — Truth Devour

The scent of his own arousal — Milly Taiden

There was that all-pervasive evening scent of cut grass and jasmine. — William Dalrymple

As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village. — Gautama Buddha

I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms. — James Anthony Froude

A madeleine moment - a sound, a scent can incant her presence ... — John Geddes

I walked inside and paused for a moment to breathe in the scent of paper and dust - the perfumes of knowledge. — Chloe Neill

Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent. — Natalie Portman

With bated breath we wait for the scent of perfection, accompanied by the freshness of love. — Saim .A. Cheeda

Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently ... Can words describe the indescribable? — Rumi

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies. — Neil Gaiman

Daire drew in a breath, inhaling her intoxicating scent of the sea, sun, and lavender. And might.
By the heavens, he craved her. — Donna Grant

Scent is often underestimated, when it can be the most evocative. — Erin Morgenstern

No scent is more sensual or more memorable to me than musk. — Narciso Rodriguez

You have a voice as sweet as your scent," he said, his words deep and quiet. "Sweet as violets. — Veronica Rossi

For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent. — George Gissing

Scent of old books a mystery; a secret port of the dreamers. — China Cancio

A soft breeze plays with her hair, bringing with it the mingling scent of dusty tomes and damp, rich ink. — Erin Morgenstern

You can never appreciate the scent of a flower by another's description. Some things are left to experience. Journey of self. — Truth Devour

Over endless crystalline waves travelled the sparkling scent of triumph, of limitless possibilities, of strength and inspiration. — Jan Moran

Wind howled through the night, carrying a scent that would change the world. — Christopher Paolini

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

Smells, I think, may be the last thing on earth to die. — Fern Schumer Chapman

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

I placed a bowl of herbs and ointments in the window of my bedroom, and let the scented breeze carry him away ... — Sherry Jones

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. — Thomas Moore

There is the incense of wisdom, whispering, to speak of grace in the dark/there is the scent of primal animals, grappling with the glory of the dark. — R. Paul Sardanas

The aroma of tea mixed with the scent of old books, leather chairs, and wool from the carpet in a soothing fusion. — Faith Hunter

Money does not smell of the mire whence it came; it has the glorious scent of what will be. — Catulle Mendes

Trees, it turns out, have a completely different way of communicating: they use scent. — Peter Wohlleben

His scent, the scent of spring, warm and hopefuly as the sunlight that filled this place, poured through me. — Andrea Cremer

Sisters share the scent and smells ... the feel of a common childhood. — Pam Brown

a certain stink on a certain kind of soul, a foul scent of hateful smallness too often thwarted . . . then given an ounce of power. — Cherie Priest

Scent is the strongest tie to memory. — Maggie Stiefvater

Shifters mate for life. We have one true mate and when we meet, we know immediately. By scent. Instinct. You are mine. — Tamara Hoffa

The heat of his sweet breath mixing with hers, his scent filling her lungs, was like a drug made from concentrated sin. — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

As he slid a bit closer, I caught a whiff of his cologne. Smelling like chocolate, the scent was bait to any self-respecting woman. — Bijou Hunter

Every scent is the sun's scent. — Dejan Stojanovic

The word love has always tasted like the scent of fresh ink and soft paper to me. Like a newly written poem. — Megan Hart

Desire, hot and thick, consumed him. Lily. He wanted to hold her, to simply savor her scent of roses. — Donna Grant

...and thinking how the first scent of autumn is like coming across a lost album of childhood photographs. — Jonathan Hull

Rowan was the most powerful full-blooded Fae male alive. And his scent was all over her. Yet she had no gods-damned idea. — Sarah J. Maas

There was nothing more intoxicating to Syra than Court, and his scent was the sweet chaser to the slow burn the rest of the man provided. — Alex Morgan

What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar. — Edie Campbell

Your happy songs bring to me the scent of Heaven. Please keep singing! — Rumi

This is how we celebrate the Day of the Dead in America: by turning up our collars against the scent of earthworms calling us home. — Barbara Kingsolver

A scent of jasmine and a rasp of sand. — Jan Morris

The scent of the sea, a wild turbulent storm, crashing into her mind.
Elena, why is Dmitri naked? — Nalini Singh

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

She woke to the scent of coffee, and wondered if that was how mornings in heaven smelled. — J.D. Robb

Faeces by any other name would smell as gross — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The breath of the enchanted wind mingles the fresh scent of the lilacs with the fragrance of the past. — Marcel Proust

Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them. — Gautama Buddha

Separating her thighs. The scent of her arousal hardened every muscle in his body. He moved his hand down her hip and then to her hot, warm core. — Jayne Ann Krentz