Smells

What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books.
- Andre Sinyavsky

The smell of rain is rich with life.
- Estela Portillo Trambley

Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet, such a book would more likely be found amid the debris than a comprehensible medical text.
- James Lovelock

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it so little.
- Rachel Louise Carson, 1907 - 1964

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
- W. Somerset Maugham, 1874 - 1965

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
- Henry Louis Mencken, 1880 - 1956