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

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

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

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

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.

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

I use these senses - touch, sight, feel and smell - as triggers that invite readers or propel them into the scene. The trick is not to make it obvious. I've written an entire chapter about this in my book, 'The Successful Novelist.' I've lectured about it extensively, but have yet to see many people pick up on it.

In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts.