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I'm just a huge fan of smells, first of all. I have a bit of an obsession with smells.

I think smells, like sounds, can be so much immediately affecting.

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

Smells definitely do have a crazy impact on me.

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.

Everyone is obsessed with air fresheners. We associate smell with disgust. But we're all locked into the body; we can't escape it.

When you have children, your house smells very unpleasant all the time.

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