Perfume is a form of writing, an ink, a choice made in the first person, the dot on the i, a weapon, a courteous gesture, part of the instant, a consequence. — Serge Lutens
Perfume is the indispensable complement to the personality of women, the finishing touch on a dress. — Christian Dior
Perfume follows you; it chases you and lingers behind you. It's a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk. — Sonia Rykiel
Perfume is a mark of female identity and the final touch of her style — Christian Dior
Perfume puts the finishing touch to elegance - a detail that subtly underscores the look, an invisible extra that completes a man and a woman's personality. Without it there is something missing. — Gianni Versace
A perfume is an intimate object, it is the reflector of the heart. — Emanuel Ungaro
Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living. — Sonia Rykiel
A perfume is more than an extract it is a presence in abstraction. A perfume, for me, is a mystique. — Giorgio Armani
Good perfume is known by its own scent rather than by the perfumer's advertisement. — Afghan Proverbs
A perfume is like a piece of clothing, a message, a way of presenting oneself a costume that differs according to the woman who wears it. — Paloma Picasso
No elegance is possible without perfume. It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory — Coco Chanel
There is nothing more wonderful than being remembered for a perfume. — Roja Dove
A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting. — Christian Dior
A PERFUME SHOULD BE AS IMBUED WITH MEANING AS IT IS LIGHT TO WEAR. — Paco Rabanne
Short Perfume Quotes
Long after one has forgotten what a woman wore, the memory of her perfume lingers. — Christian Dior
Childhood smells of perfume and brownies. — David Leavitt
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh! — William Shakespeare
Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose.
For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed. — William Shakespeare
The beauty of fragrance is that it speaks to your heart and hopefully someone else's. — Elizabeth Taylor
Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics. — Gabriel Marcel
Two things make the women unforgettable, their tears and their perfume — Sacha Guitry
Being stuck in airports, you always end up buying perfume and sunglasses. — Lexa Doig
Make me a fragrance that smells like love — Christian Dior
Perfume Image Quotes
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Fragrance Quotes
An orchid in a deep forest sends out its fragrance even if no one is around to appreciate it. — Confucius
Be like a flower that gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushed it. — Ali ibn Abi Talib
When speech comes from a quiet heart, it has the strength of the orchid, and the fragrance of rock. — Stephen Mitchell
average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking. — Leonardo da Vinci
As fragrance abides in the flower
As reflection is within the mirror,
So does your Lord abide within you,
Why search for him without? — Guru Nanak
Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Day by day become more and more intimate with the inner stillness, joy and love which is the fragrance your own pure heart. Keep quiet. — Mooji
'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees
Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago. — Victor Hugo
Aromatherapy is a caring, hands-on therapy which seeks to induce relaxation, to increase energy, to reduce the effects of stress and to restore lost balance to mind, body and soul. — Robert Tisserand
Scent Quotes
The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day. — Hippocrates
We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near. — Teresa of Avila
Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent. — Anthony of Padua
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew. — Jerry Spinelli
Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this. — Stevie Smith
Say goodbye to the age-old stereotypes of seduction. Seductive, but not a seductress, a woman wears a scent to reveal her personality. — Paco Rabanne
Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey. — Anna Julia Cooper
One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles. — Igor Stravinsky
Pernicious weed! whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys: Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours. — William Cowper
Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it. — Patrick Süskind
Cologne Quotes
If it smells like fish its a dish. If it smells like cologne leave it alone. — Andrew Dice Clay
If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good. — Zac Efron
I don't use no cologne, none of that. I just use cocoa butter and that's it. Everything I need is natural besides going to the shower and taking soap and shampoo and conditioner. — DJ Khaled
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed. — Josh Billings
I like a man who smells good. Puts on cologne; lotions his body. It keeps me wanting. I like feeling that way. — Jill Scott
Euphemisms are unpleasant truths wearing diplomatic cologne. — Quentin Crisp
The river Rhine, it is well known,
Doth wash your city of Cologne;
But tell me, nymphs! what power divine
Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine? — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I dont wear cologne. I do occasionally, but anytime I take a shower, I just put on deodorant. Thats basically what I smell like. — Mads Mikkelsen
I'm tryin' to build myself bigger than just Ace Hood, I'm tryin' to build myself as a bigger brand - open up clothing lines, colognes. — Ace Hood
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself. — Og Mandino
To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect — Leonardo da Vinci
When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume. — Sara Jeannette Duncan
The true artists that make LVMH a success… They want people to wear their dresses, or spray their perfume, or carry the luggage they have designed. — Bernard Arnault
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. — John Steinbeck
Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees. — Edwin Way Teale
You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption. — William Faulkner
The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived. — Juvenal
Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The piano's world encompasses glass-nerved virtuos and stomping barrel-housers in fedoras; it is a world of pasture and storm, of perfumed smoke, of liquid mathematics. — Kenneth R. Miller
If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best. — Carlos Fuentes
We are pretty confident on the new product flow. We have a lot of very interesting products, in perfume, in cosmetics, in Louis Vuitton we have the cherry bag that you see now with Uma Thurman. — Bernard Arnault
If you are shopping for common stocks, choose them the way you would buy groceries, not the way you would buy perfume. — Benjamin Graham
Beck behaved himself, though it was really difficult, especially during the slow dances when they were so tantalizingly close. He savoured the feel of her against his body, the light scent of her perfume, the in her eyes that told him he was the center of her universe. It was a new and totally overwhelming experience. — Jana Oliver
Pornography is supposed to arouse sexual desires. If pornography is a crime, when will they arrest makers of perfume? — Richard Fleischer
To create a perfume you have to be the servant of the unconscious. Each idea evolves and transforms, but there should be a surprise with each note. — Serge Lutens
You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world. — Ray Bradbury
Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from. — Pablo Picasso
We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumes flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle: these are our brothers. All things are connected like the blood which unites one's family. — Chief Seattle
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