“I had been right: freedom smelled like ozone and thunderstorms and gunpowder all at once, like snow and bonfires and cut grass, it tasted like seawater and oranges.”

“She's like snow in Russian," said Anna. "Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow had a scent it would smell like that [the rose]….”

Eva Ibbotson book A Countess Below Stairs

“The air tasted just the same, smelled just the same. The wind making my hair feel sticky, the salty sea breeze, all of it felt just right. Like it had been waiting for me to get there.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

“That night’s selection was called Windblown Grass. It didn’t exactly smell like grass to Holden, but it was nice. Just a hint of earthiness to it. Holden had a suspicion that all perfumes were named randomly, anyway.”

Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States

“Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

“In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

“She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'…”

Ken Follett book The Pillars of the Earth

“Wild honey smells of freedom
The dust - of sunlight
The mouth of a young girl, like a violet
But gold - smells of nothing.”

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet

“For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.”

Zadie Smith book White Teeth

“I like the smell of armpits in the morning. It's like victory.”

Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter