“The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.”

“All lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love;
No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love.”

“The gentlemen like it when a lady smells sweet.”

“Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.”

“He could smell her morality, the sweet rot of corruption”

“Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.”

“The rose of all the world is not for me.
I want for my part
Only the little white rose of Scotland
That smells sharp and sweet - and breaks the heart.”

“So the freshness lives on
in a lemon,
in the sweet-smelling house of the rind,
the proportions, arcane and acerb.”

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose,
By any other name would smell as sweet.”

“Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.”