Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

Smells definitely do have a crazy impact on me.

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

I do believe that using fragrance is a plus. It's one of our senses and it's be a waste not to use our sense of smell. I also think smell is something that tells a lot about a person.

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

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.

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.

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

There are about 700 flavors that you can smell, but only five you can taste. A lot of times what you're perceiving as flavor has nothing to do with palette, but it's more to do with scents.

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.

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

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

Pictures are as evocative to me as smells.

Fragrance is my favorite thing. So much so that if I leave the house and I don't put any on, I'll turn around and go back home.

I'm very sensitive to smells.

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

Stevie Wonder always smells so good... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away!

Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

I'm just a huge fan of smells, first of all. I have a bit of an obsession with smells.

When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.

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

The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

Everyone is obsessed with air fresheners. We associate smell with disgust. But we're all locked into the body; we can't escape it.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

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