Scent Quotes

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.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

I always wanted my own fragrance because I could never find the right scent for me. At home, I would always mix bottles of my favorite fragrances to create a unique and different scent.

It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

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.

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.

No scent is more sensual or more memorable to me than musk.

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

I'm totally on a mission to find my signature scent, but I'm too mercurial.

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.

The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

I've found a different way to scent the air: already it's a by-word for despair.

I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.

I enjoy popping in to World Duty Free at the airport and trying out perfumes - I can never resist a new scent.