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Quotes About Fragrance

It's my cologne. Eau de Recent Injury." (Jace)
~ Cassandra Clare
Once the corpse had been dressed, complete with a nightcap which kept the jaw closed and created the impression that the dead person was but sleeping, it was placed in an open coffin. This was lined with a sawdust mattress, to absorb the by-products of early decomposition, and scattered with pungent herbs such as rosemary to disguise the smell.
~ Catharine Arnold
Rosebud. Aren't you lovely.
~ Catherine Anderson
She smelled like accounts receivable. She looked like old money.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
The honeysuckle was everywhere the day the letter arrived, like heat. Wild roses bloomed in hedges of tendrils and perfume. There were fat bees, dirigible bees, plump and miniature. It was a sweet, tangled morning, and the sun rose, leisurely, in a spectacular blush.
~ Cathleen Schine
In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.
~ Gertrude Stein
la kuvunda halian ubani. There is no incense for something rotting. And that is the condition of the world. This I know.
~ Giles Foden
Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.
~ Glen Duncan
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers, where I can walk undisturbed...
~ Walt Whitman
You smell the lilac and there comes flooding back the memories of the days when you first knew lilacs and carried them about as if they were the queen-flower of the world.
~ Eva D. Kellogg, "May," 1902
Beauty without virtue is a rose without fragrance.
~ German proverb
A flower's appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.
~ Terri Guillemets
Is there anything like the odor of strawberries? The next best thing to tasting them is to smell them; one may put his nose to the dish while the fruit is yet too rare and choice for his fingers. Touch not and taste not, but take a good smell and go mad!
~ John Burroughs
He wore piss-poor lime cologne. He sucked a hide-the-hooch lozenge.
~ James Ellroy
For many of us, lavender's deep colour and its unforgettable fragrance encapsulate the heady joys of Provence.
~ Carol Drinkwater
A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.
~ Christian Dior
Perfume is the indispensable complement to the personality of women, the finishing touch on a dress.
~ Christian Dior
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
Two things make the women unforgettable, their tears and their perfume
~ Sacha Guitry
Fragrance is so intimate for a lot of women - it's your essence, your identity.
~ Christian Louboutin
Pretty women without religion are like flowers without perfume.
~ Heinrich Heine
Hygiene is important. You gotta smell good. So ladies, please spray some perfume. Hair gotta be done. You gotta look nice.
~ Omarion
I keep my perfume in the fridge. If someone sees me in the morning pushing aside the eggs to grab my perfume, it might look a little odd, but it's so refreshing to spray cold fragrance on your skin.
~ Becki Newton
For fragrance, I apply a custom blend of essential oils and perfumes. I love spritzing Michelle Roques-O'Neil's Restore Therapie Aura Spray, which is an infusion that instantly rebuilds your energy.
~ Pat McGrath