Top Scent Quotes
I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.
Andrew Motion
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel Johnson
I enjoy popping in to World Duty Free at the airport and trying out perfumes - I can never resist a new scent.
Lisa Snowdon
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Jean Cocteau
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.
Marc Bloch
Diane Ackerman 
Lexa Doig 
Francois Rabelais 
Marc Bloch 
Jean Cocteau 
Olive Schreiner All Scent Quotes
I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.
Andrew Motion 
59% of people like this quote
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
Samuel Johnson
57% of people like this quote
I enjoy popping in to World Duty Free at the airport and trying out perfumes - I can never resist a new scent.
Lisa Snowdon
55% of people like this quote
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Jean Cocteau
55% of people like this quote
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.
Marc Bloch
52% of people like this quote
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!
Francois Rabelais
51% of people like this quote
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.
Diane Ackerman
51% of people like this quote
I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.
Angus Wilson
48% of people like this quote
Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
Olive Schreiner
48% of people like this quote
I'm totally on a mission to find my signature scent, but I'm too mercurial.
Lexa Doig
42% of people like this quote