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Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.

Smell is incredibly important and sensual; it communicates who you are.

Smell is stimulating. It stirs things up and makes us nostalgic - a wonderful word which literally means 'ache for home' - which serves to inspire new circuits in the brain.

Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.

Smells are so powerful and evocative, sometimes stronger than visual cues.

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

Smell is so powerful, you know. My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those kinds of things it really takes me back to my childhood.

In humans, smell is often viewed as an aesthetic sense, as a sense capable of eliciting enduring thoughts and memories. Smell, however, is the primal sense. It is the sense that affords most organisms the ability to detect food, predators, and mates.

Scents evoke very, very powerful memories, whether it's the scent of someone that you know and someone that you love, or if it's a meal that your mother made.