Olfactory Sense Quotes

I know,I can smell it, too.

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

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.

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

There are some things I can just smell. It's like a sixth sense." "Well, actually, that would be one of the five.

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.

Fragrance is the voice of inanimate things.

I have a good flavor memory.

If you can smell garlic, everything is all right.

Smell is the mute sense, the one without words.

That's the only dog I know who can smell someone just thinking about food.

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

An inch in a man's nose is much.

Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food, you have to be unnervingly close to it. To smell or hear it, you can risk being further off. But vision can rush through the fields and up the mountains, travel across time, country, and parsecs of outer space, and collect bushel baskets of information as it goes. Animals that hear high frequencies better than we do

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

Smell is a fallen angel.

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.

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.

The one thing that holds people back from working out together is that they don't want to smell around other people. Your olfactory sense is the primary sense in your memory, and you don't want to be part of anyone's memory thinking that you smell bad.

Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

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.

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

Wolves never look more funny than when they have lost the scent and scrabble to find it again: they hop in the air; they run in circles, they plow up the ground with their noses . . . .