Ashley Bird

“She smelled like sun and the drying herbs that hung in the tea shop. She felt like home.”
― Adrienne Young, Spells for Forgetting

“He smiles at me, and I don’t like it.”
― Caty Rogan, Kissed by the Gods

“Jake's hair smelled like iced tea with honey in it, after all the ice has melted.”
― Kelly Link

“These are some of my favorite smells: toasting bagel, freshly cut figs, the bergamot in good Earl Grey tea, a jar of whole soybeans slowly turning beneath a tropical sun.
You'd expect the latter to smell salty, meaty, flaccid- like what you'd smell if you unscrewed the red cap of the bottle on a table in your neighborhood Chinese restaurant and stuck your nose in as far as it would go. But real, fermenting soybeans smell nothing like sauce in a plastic bottle. Tangy and pungent, like rising bread or wet earth, these soybeans smell of history, of life, of tiny, patient movements, unseen by the naked eye.”
― Kirstin Chen, Soy Sauce for Beginners