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Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through a

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

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The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril. – William Shakespeare

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Aromatic plants bestow
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but crushd or trodden to the ground,
diffuse their balmy sweets around. – Oliver Goldsmith

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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

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