Quotes About Fragrance

Like a nocturnal flower there in the shadow I shall softly open for you.

I think it's interesting that 'cologne' rhymes with 'alone.'

Dune by Christian Dior. Luca Turin, who wrote a fragrance guide, calls it 'the bleakest beauty in all perfumery.' Here,

Chaos by Donna Karan and smelled smoky, sweet, and spicy. I

I dug into my purse and pulled out a mini bottle of perfume, Serge Lutens's Féminité du Bois. Tart plum and sweet, spicy woods, but light and shimmery too. A

I am, a shadow that grows longer as the sun moves, drawn out on a thread of wonder. If I bear burdens they begin to be remembered as gifts, goods, a basket of bread that hurts my shoulders but closes me in fragrance. I can eat as I go. ("Stepping Westward")

The trunks of date palms met as though they were corpses mangled by the ants that had penetrated their leaves, while scraps of ripe dates, strewn about beneath them, gave out a fermented smell mixed with that of the date palms and the water-sodden roots.

A person without Character is like a beautiful flower with no fragrance, IMHO. Beauty, knowledge and wealth become worthless in the absence of Character. Life loses its meaning forever, once the Character is lost or compromised.....just like a beautiful flower that has no fragrance.

Mon père m'a dit une fois que d'être en compagnie de bonnes personnes est comme être dans un magasin de parfum. Si vous achetez un parfum ou non, vous serez toujours sortir rafraîchi, rajeuni, et sentant absolument fabuleux.

My father once told me that being in the company of good people is like being in a fragrance mart. Whether you buy any perfume or not, you'll always come out refreshed, rejuvenated, and smelling absolutely fabulous.

Siempre eres conocido por la compañía que buscas. "- enseñado mis padres en mi infancia. Como yo crecí, me di cuenta que estar en compañía de buena gente es como estar en un centro comercial fragancia. Si usted compra cualquier fragancia o no, que siempre va a salir renovados y con olor absolutamente fabuloso. Así que mis padres tenían razón;. que siempre es agradable estar con gente agradable.

Siempre eres conocido por la compañía que buscas. "-. enseñado mis padres en mi infancia......como yo crecí, me di cuenta de que estar en compañía de gente agradable es como estar en un centro comercial fragancia si usted compra cualquier fragancia o no, que siempre va a salir renovado y con olor absolutamente fabuloso así que mis padres tenían razón; que siempre es agradable estar con gente agradable.

No one knows the colour of a flower till it is broken.

When the rose opens its heart, you will smell the fragrance of its soul.

A good fragrance is really a powerful cocktail of memories and emotion.

His clean skin had a sweet earthy scent, like ripe roasted breadfruit, or warm oiled saddle leather. It was an evocative fragrance that rambled through her blood, at once comforting and licentious.

Look, Herb, I could keep you all here all afternoon, sniffin' and slurpin' pink Peruvian peppercorns and criollo cacao, and cinnamon and cascarilla and coriander, and caraway and carrot seed and so much climbing ylang-ylang you couldn't tell a cup of tea from a cup of turpentine.

Then she remembered. The apple. Reaching over to her bag on the passenger seat with her right hand, left hand on the wheel, Grace grasped the apple like a baseball and brought it to her face. Again, she held it under her nose and took in its scent. Wow. Even with the wind blowing around her, the fragrance was full and lush and sweet- though not overtly, like so many of today's commercially bred grocery store apples, but deep, dark, sugared, as the night in a Caribbean cane field.

I dug wild mushrooms out of a jungle in Gabon, plucked 'Vanilla pompona' orchids from Madagascar treetops, tracked down Sichuan hot pot pepper in a seedy back alley in Shanghai. I've sniffed test tubes filled with scents that are not of this earth. But I have never quite been struck the way I have been struck by your apple.

Her sweat was a potion, her scent elixir.

Globe in hand, Grace slowly approached the big orchid, white and fragile and absolutely gorgeous. She very carefully slid the globe over it, and as she was doing so, she put her face into the center of the open flower, smiling as the breathtaking fragrance washed over her- luscious and nectared, candied apricots, airy notes of strange spice.

One tradition I have with my friends is that when one of us gets married, we have a ton of fragrance oils and pretty bottles at the bachelorette party. Everyone puts a drop or two in a bottle for the bride and makes a wish, and the bride wears our creation on her wedding day.

I judge people on how they smell, not how they look.

Per un istante, temendo di svenire a quell'odore di donna che ritrovava più caldo, moltiplicato, sotto il soffitto basso, si sedette sul bordo del divano imbottito, tra le due finestre. Ma si rialzò immediatamente, tornò accanto alla toeletta, senza guardare più niente, gli occhi vacui, ripensando a un mazzo di tuberose che una volta era appassito nella sua stanza e l'aveva fatto quasi morire. Le tuberose, quando si decompongono, hanno un odore umano.