Top 399 Smell Quotes

For weeks after 9/11 you could smell the dust and pulverised concrete in New York, and the National Guard came in, so there was a military presence on the streets. It was intense. Overwhelming. Heartbreaking.
Mark Boal
If men have a smell it’s usually an accident.
Jeff Foxworthy
I do have my own washing machine, but I do miss going to the laundromat. I love the smell of fabric softener.
Cynthia Erivo
My first experience of doing martial arts was weird, real traditional, strange smell with incense burning. We did a lot of bowing, it was a lot of path of least resistance and go with the flow… Really good stuff for when you’re at a young age.
Nick Diaz
Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us an

Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.
Tove Jansson
I’ve played in successful sides, and you smell it. When dinner finishes at 7:45 P.M., and you’re playing in an unsuccessful side, everyone goes up to their own room.
Phil Neville
Elephants are very sensitive to smell and they tend to recognise us by our body odour.
Thalaivasal Vijay
As far as performance, the roar of the crowd, the smell of the greasepaint no I don’t feel that.
Peter Garrett
My favorite animal to hunt is probably elk. There’s nothing like the sound of a bugling bull splitting the cold air at first light. And that smell is unmistakable. Once you experience their musk in the wild there’s no going back! A close second would be a varmint hunt.
Chris Pratt
My son smelled like a cinnamon bun, and that smell entered into my biological being, and it became an imperative that I keep him alive at all costs, so then there’s this monster – this tiger or lion – that comes forward in you to protect them. And it doesn’t stop. It doesn’t matter if they become men or women.
Frances McDormand
Just because someone’s dead doesn’t mean it’s over. My grandfather died more than 25 years ago, but I still think of him a lot and smell his smell.
Julian Clary
I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there’s film going through the camera.
Steven Spielberg
The studios will go wherever they smell money. It’s like sharks to the blood.
Don Bluth
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.
Georges Rouault
I do love when men wear cologne – if I get a hint of it, I want to move closer so I can smell it more.
Evan Rachel Wood
Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an ‘Airedale,’ not just a ‘dog.’ A taste should not be merely ‘good’ but ‘creamy and sweet’ or ‘sharply salty’ or ‘buttery on the tongue.’
Nancy Kress
I’ve had a black guy call me a honky, and I’ve also been told that white people smell like bologna.
Brooke Hogan
I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint… a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.
David Lynch
I like to dress well, I like to look good, I like to smell good.
Masego
When you go into a person’s house, and you smell that wash of cat smell, it’s the human’s fault, not the cat’s. Cats want everything to be clean around them. They want where they live to be clean, they clean themselves, they want a clean litter box.
Beth Ostrosky Stern
Observe, record, tabulate, communicate. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.
William Osler
My grandmother had a Ph.D in library science, so I grew up in a library, and I would appreciate those books and the smell of them and how they’d have these series, and it was cool to me. I always felt like, if I had an opportunity, I’d create an album that felt like a series.
Dawn Richard
Paris works so hard. I always say, ‘Paris, you also have to stop now and again and smell the roses.’
Kathy Hilton
I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.
Christina Ricci
My favourite smell is bleach. If I walk into the house and there’s things being bleached, it just makes me feel at home, euphoric almost.
Nadine Coyle
But Tottenham is pure football and pure people… nice, warm people. That’s why I like Tottenham. And everybody who comes to the stadium can smell the history.
Rafael van der Vaart
The smell of onion is the most effective thing for relieving stinging eyes irritated by tear gas.
Sayed Kashua
I think that animals aren’t less intelligent than humans, they’re just of a different intelligence. We have five million smell-sensitive cells in our nose, they have two hundred and fifty million – they can smell emotion. They can smell different types of emotion, they just have another type of intelligence.
Mike Mills
I love unisex perfumes because men don’t realize they’re attracted to the way that other men smell. I’m like, ‘I smell like a dude right now, and you don’t even know!’
Madison Beer
I can’t stand the smell of beer.
Laila Rouass
Before every show, I have to put perfume on. I know the crowd’s not necessarily going to smell me, but when I smell good, I feel like I can dominate the room.
Rita Ora
I wouldn’t want to get involved with a game that’s a stinker – I can smell one of those a mile away.
Flying Lotus
I love breakfast! Not only is it the most important meal of the day, but I loved waking up to – the smell of bacon in the morning was my favorite thing as a kid!
Rachel Hollis
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.
Chris Evans
Grills are how to achieve a great flavor on meats and vegetables. They bring people together. The smell of them getting started is therapeutic.
Chuck Inglish
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There

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
Goats are really cute, especially little ones. But they do smell a little bit.
Jacob Tremblay
I love using Moroccan Oil. It makes my hair feel great and I love the smell.
Eva Marie
I love the smell of a man’s skin.
J. Courtney Sullivan
Smell is incredibly important and sensual; it communicates who you are.
Sean Combs
Since dogs could hear and smell better than men, we could concentrate on sight. Since courage is commonplace in dogs, men’s adrenal glands could shrink. Dogs, by making us more efficient predators, gave us time to think. In short, dogs civilized us.
Donald McCaig
A barn with cattle and horses is the place to begin Christmas; after all, that’s where the original event happened, and that same smell was the first air that the Christ Child breathed.
Paul Engle
I don’t really like hospitals that much. People are sick; sometimes it can be depressing. There’s people going through a lot of pain in there. It has that funny smell.
Mekhi Phifer
Taking walks sometimes bring back memories of my childhood because a smell might trigger a memory.
King Diamond
I think you can tell the difference between ‘swagger’ and real confidence immediately. You can smell it, like bad body spray versus nice cologne.
Stephanie Beatriz
I didn’t want a ghost writer. I’ve got such a distinctive voice, people would smell a rat, I think.
Alan Carr
The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
The goals are not about the sweet smell of success as much as it’s about enjoying a damn day on the movie set… I live in a complete state of grace.
Peter Weller
This is what I grew up on in Alsace. It’s choucroute. I’d wake up every morning with the smell of cabbage and potatoes and pork.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
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.
Frans de Waal
Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.
James Shirley
If you smell good, you feel good, and your day’s fabulous.
La La Anthony
The way I’m portrayed on the Internet is partly my doing, but it’s partly the people that are presenting it so, you know, people come to know this strange version of a human. It can be pretty weird because people think I’m digging through dumpsters and smell like crap all the time.
Mac DeMarco
Libertarians believe that any government interference is bad. Anyone with a brain knows that climate change needs governmental leadership, and they can smell this is bad news for their philosophy. Their ideology is so strongly held that, remarkably, it’s overcoming the facts.
Jeremy Grantham
The ancient media of speech and song and theater were radically reshaped by writing, though they were never entirely supplanted, a comfort perhaps to those of us who still thrill to the smell of a library.
Alison Gopnik
The feeling between two fighters is profound. We go places where normal people don’t go. You smell a man’s blood, it smells like rust. You get into a clench, you feel his strength, you feel his desperation, he feels yours. You’re sharing this.
Chris Eubank Sr.
Now people who keep fish disturb me the most, if I’m totally honest. They always smell a bit like fish food and they know just a bit too much about eels.
Claudia Winkleman
How real can your music be if you wake up in the morning hearing birds and crickets? I never hear birds when I wake up. Just a lot of construction work, the smell of Chinese takeout, children screaming, and everybody knocking a different track from ‘Ready to Die’ as they pass down the street.
The Notorious B.I.G.
I used to love those little cute bottles of amenities in the hotel room. And while the soap, shampoo, conditioner, and lotion may smell great, they waste an incredible amount of plastic and space in your luggage.
Ashlan Gorse Cousteau