SP, Brazil, 2009 - S.C. Zerbetto“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...”
Diane Ackerman
Diane Ackerman
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
Vladimir Nabokov
And ever since then, when the clock strikes two,
She walks unbidden from room to room,
And the air is filled that she passes through
With a subtle, sad perfume.
The delicate odor of mignonette,
The ghost of a dead and gone bouquet,
Is all that tells of her story--yet
Could she think of a sweeter way?
Bret Harte (Francis Bret Harte)
Lawn as white as driven snow,
Cyprus black as e'er was crow,
Gloves as sweet as damask roses,
Masks for faces and for noses,
Bugle bracelet, necklace amber,
Perfume for a lady's chamber,
Golden quoifs and stomachers
For my lads to give their dears,
Pins and poking-sticks of steel,
What maids lack from head to heel.
William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
(Autolycus at IV, iv)
I am almost frightened out of my seven senses.
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra),
Don Quixote (pt. I, bk. III, ch. IX)
