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Quotes About Fragrance

The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
That something smelled delicious! ' I screamed.
~ David Foster Wallace
She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red.
~ David Foster Wallace
A legbensÅ'ségesebb emlékem ?kelmérÅ'l az állkapcsa szúróssága és a nyakszaga, amikor vacsoránál elnyomott az álom, és fölvitt lefeküdni. Vékony nyaka volt, de jó meleg szaggal [...]
~ David Foster Wallace
Art soaked it in alcohol to toughen it up and draw out the water. (If he'd had the opposite problem—if the skin had been dry and stiff—he'd have soaked it in Downy fabric softener; I'm sure the makers of Downy would be pleased to know that their product makes even mummified human skin soft and fragrant.)
~ William M. Bass
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.
~ William Shakespeare
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.
~ William Shakespeare
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
~ William Shakespeare
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet Though to itself it only live and die
~ William Shakespeare
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
~ William Shakespeare
A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.
~ William Shakespeare
Here's flowers for you; hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold.
~ William Shakespeare
Stealing and giving odor. Enough, no more. 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
~ William Shakespeare
O thou weed, Who art so lovely fair, and smell'st so sweet
~ William Shakespeare
Lay her i' the earth; And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring!
~ William Shakespeare
le spalle simili al bianco cuore di un fiore. [...]
~ Winston Graham
Wczoraj, kiedy Twoje imiÄ™ ktoÅ› wymówiÅ' przy mnie gÅ'oÅ›no, to poczuÅ'am jakby ró?a przez otwarte wpadÅ'a okno.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
Then she saw him stop and wipe his brow with his handkerchief. Once, twice. And then once again. But she did not see the grin of relief spread over his face. That she did not see because her eyes had filled with tears. And the geraniums, they were just as sad. In any case, that's how they smelled.
~ WOLFGANG BORCHERT
And I will make thee beds of rosesAnd a thousand fragrant posies.
~ Christopher Marlowe
Her clothes still smoked from the wizard's assault. But to him, she always smelled of flowers.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
He remembered as never before how exquisite and beautiful she was, and her kisses tasting of crème de menthe and her fragrance of Coty perfume would be new and sweeter than ever after the coca and the rustic perfumes of these valleys. What a feeling of satin, that of her red lips under his cracked by the wind and the sun! The astonishment in her blue eyes when he related his odyssey through these wild mountains!
~ Unknown
To write you I first cover myself with perfume.
~ Clarice Lispector
La bondad era tibia y sin consistencia, olía a carne cruda guardada durante mucho tiempo.
~ Clarice Lispector
Things went somehow so good that were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting.
~ Clarice Lispector