scent quotes

And the smell of the library was always the samethe musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup'.

- Peter Ackroyd
  Chatterton, ch.5.

Children are dumb to say how hot the day is, How hot the scent is of the summer rose.

- Robert von Ranke Graves
  'The Cool Web'.

Quo semel est imbuta recens servabit odorem testa diu. The first scent you pour in a jar lasts for years.

-Horace full name  Quintus Horatius Flaccus   65
Epistulae, bk.1, no.2, l.69.

And the jessamine faint, and the sweet tuberose, The sweetest flower for scent that blows.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
  'The Sensitive Plant', pt.1, l.37^8.

On dirait que l'a"  me des justes donne, comme les fleurs, plus de parfums vers le soir. It seems that the soul of the just gives off, like flowers, a stronger scent towards evening.

- Germaine Necker, Baronne de Stae«  l
  Corinne ou de l'Italie.

The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.

- Francis Thompson
'Daisy' (published1890).

and there grows in the mind a scent, it may be, of locust blossoms whose perfume is itself a wind moving to lead the mind away.

-William Carlos Williams
  Paterson, bk.3,'The Library'.