“it smelled the way a garage would smell if you left a bear inside it for too long.”

“The coffee shop smell was strong enough to build a garage on.”

“It was not the way Curve smelled that Colin liked - not exactly. It was the way the air smelled just as Lindsey began to jog away from him. The smell of perfume left behind. There's not a word for that in English, but Colin knew the French word: sillage. What Colin liked about Curve was not its smell on the skin but its sillage, the fruity sweet smell of its leaving.”

“I wanted to smell the guitars. It's hard to explain but they have a smell. And the best way I could ever describe it would be to say they smell like potential. Ambition and desire. If such things had a smell.”

“I love the smell of cleanliness. That’s what the inside of my nostrils smell like, naturally.”

“You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too.”