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

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

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

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.

Pictures are as evocative to me as smells.

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

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

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

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.

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