Michael Paterniti Quotes

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

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

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

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.

Fragrance takes you on a journey of time. You can walk down the street and pass someone and get taken back 20 years. It's very Proustian that way.

Scents evoke very, very powerful memories, whether it's the scent of someone that you know and someone that you love, or if it's a meal that your mother made.

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

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.

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

Fragrance is a bit of a selfish gift because it's comforting when you're near someone and you recognize their smell.

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

Fragrance is important to me because of its emotional dimension. I feel like fragrances are able to transport, stir emotion, and bring up memories. You can wear makeup, you can dress yourself up, but fragrance gives a powerful aspect to how you can present yourself that you can't necessarily get any other way.

Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.

Eighty percent of love is smell.

The beauty of fragrance is that it speaks to your heart and hopefully someone else's.

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.

In the dark beside me, she smelled of sweat and sunshine and vanilla.

A man has not seen a thing who has not felt it.

I wear perfume even when I’m alone

The heavy smell of flower petals stroked the walls of my lungs.

Peppermint swirled into my nostrils, sharp as glass, then raspberry almost to sweet, like too-ripe fruit. Apple, crisp and pure. Nuts, buttery, warm, earthy

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.

As designers, we do so much with material and construction. It's really architectural; it comes close to building. A scent is so immaterial. It's really about emotion and sensation. Clothes are too, but it's not the same.

Smell is important. It reminds a person of all the things he's been through; it is a sheath of memories and security.

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