A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless. – W. H. Auden
Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crushd or trodden to the ground, diffuse their balmy sweets around. – Oliver Goldsmith
Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing. – Edgar Allan Poe
The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril. – William Shakespeare
