Sweet Smell Quotes

I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.

That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

There was a fire in the wide hearth before them, and it was burning with a sweet smell, as if it were built of apple-wood.

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

The area was encompassed in a bubble of warm, fragrant steam from the funnel cake deep fryers. It smelled like sweet vanilla cake batter you licked off a spoon.

I love the smell of frying liver. It kind of releases a sweetness into the air, and it kind of prickles your nose, and it kind of makes you awake... it gets me excited.

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

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.

On a man, I love Tom Ford's Tobacco Vanille. But I wear Orchid Soleil - I love a sweet smell.

Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.

Liza poured thick batter from a pitcher onto a soapstone griddle. The hot cakes rose like little hassocks, and small volcanoes formed and erupted on them until they were ready to be turned. A cheerful brown, they were, with tracings of darker brown. And the kitchen was full of the good sweet smell of them.