"I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side."

— Saul Bellow

"Nothing revives the past so completely as the smell that was once associated with it."

— Vladamir Nabakov

"…the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it's a pity we use it so little."

— Rachel Carson ( American biologist, ecologist and writer, 1907-1964)

"I judge people by how they smell, not how they look."

— Jennifer Lopez

"The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking…you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place…polling one center after another for signs of recognition, for old memories and old connection."

—  Lewis Thomas (American physician and author)

"The lovesick, jealous and betrayed all smell alike."

— Sidonie Gabrielle Collette ( French Writer, 1873-1954)

"Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived."

— Helen Keller

"Suspense is worse than disappointment."

— Robert Burns

"When all the laces are undone, when all the petticoats have fallen, a woman is dressed only in her perfume."

— Jean-Paul Guerlain quoting Pierre Louys

"Why are you here promoting your perfume when your mother is in the hospital dying?"

— Elizabeth Taylor