#smells

The fragrance of white tea is the feeling of existing in the mists that float over waters; the scent of peony is the scent of the absence of negativity: a lack of confusion, doubt, and darkness; to smell a rose is to teach your soul to skip; a nut and a wood together is a walk over fallen Autumn leaves; the touch of jasmine is a night's dream under the nomad's moon. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#fragrance #olfactory #perfumes #scent #senses

It was six hours to Hosannah Beach and he didn't glance at the silver coin that Dad had given him, not even once. All the way he clutched it tight in the palm of his hand and fel the bevelled edge bite into his skin. [...] Waiting in the car while Yvonne unlocked the house, he brought his hand up to his face and opened it. His sweat had the bitter smell of hot metal, hot and bitter, this was what leaving home would always smell like. ↗

— Rupert Thomson

#smells #home

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood [p. 53] ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#christmasa #memories #smells #christmas

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#around #like #manure #money #smells

There is something about poverty that smells like death. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#death #like #poverty #smells #something

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. ↗

— John Betjeman

#childhood #dark #grows #hour #measured

Coffee on an airplane always smells bad. Whenever it is served, suddenly the whole cabin stinks of it. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#always #bad #cabin #coffee #served

I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#ambition #behind #conscious #fiercely #i

I remember the first time I saw the 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' video. I will never forget that day. I just wanted to see Kurt Cobain's face. I had a feeling he was very cute. But, I couldn't see his face. When I finally did see him, he was even cuter than I imagined! ↗

— Shakira

#cute #day #did #even #face

Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#boyfriend #buy #everything #funny #i