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Quotes About Fragrance

Life is very oriental. Only a few people chosen by the inevitability of chance have tasted the aloof and delicate freedom of life. It's like knowing how to arrange flowers in a vase: almost useless knowledge. That fleeting freedom of life must never be forgotten: it should be present like a fragrance. To live this life is more an indirect remembering than a direct living.
~ Clarice Lispector
La inspiración es como un misterio olor a ambar".
~ Clarice Lispector
Sunt aproape mort acum. Miros t?mâie ?i mult fum . Totu?i mai aud ceva... Ani lumina, vocea ta...
~ Unknown
A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
~ Coco Chanel
A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
~ Coco Chanel
Nothing can save us. All this sweetness dies and rots.
~ Coleman Barks
The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
~ Colette
Tu es comme l'odeur des roses (…) tu ôtes l'appétit.
~ Colette
Niech na twym niebie nie bÄ™dzie chmur, a jeÅ›li bÄ™dÄ… to niech majÄ… kolor i zapach ró?y.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
A girl like that, Grandad said, perfumes herself with ozone and metal filings.
~ Holly Black
Sprites glitter in air that stinks of freshly spilled blood. The revel will go on, I realize. Everything will go on. But I am not sure that I can.
~ Holly Black
Cardan removes his glamour, glad to be free of it, drinking in the fragrance of moss and loam. The moonlight shines down, reflecting off leaf and stone.
~ Holly Black
Eldred cups his hands, and the branches of the throne shudder and begin to grow, sending up new green shoots to spiral into the air, leaves unfurling and flower buds bursting along the length of them. The roots of the ceiling begin to worm, lengthening like vines and crawling across the underside of the hill. There is a scent in the air, like a summer breeze, heavy with the promise of apples.
~ Holly Black
She was, as you know already without as yet knowing anything, the Lily of this valley, where she grew for heaven, filling it with the fragrance of her virtues.
~ Honore de Balzac
Your nobility looms up like a high mountain, Too high for others to attain to; But they may breathe the rare fragrance That your soul imparts.
~ Li Bai
Heart's fragrance is spent with the ending of spring And nothing left but a tear-stained robe.
~ Li Shangyin
I told him the things that were coming back to me about my mother when I was little: her lemon smell
~ Lily King
The gardens at Acquasanta was the nearest place to paradise that I had ever seen. Well-trimmed palm trees and sweet-smelling pines were interspersed with fruit trees bearing oranges, lemons, grapefruits, and kumquats. The branches bowed down under the weight of the golden fruit. Low box hedges bordered the flower gardens. There were cornflowers and sweet peas and arum lilies. Terra cotta pots the size of men trailed trains of ivy and overflowed with pink geraniums.
~ Unknown
I wanted more of those sweltering kisses. I felt terrible about that. But the warm sunny fragrance of him...he smelled better than any human being I'd ever met. "Okay" I said unsteadily, "forget what I said about not exchanging names. Who are you?" "For you, honey...I'm trouble." -Haven & Hardy
~ Lisa Kleypas
May and October, the best-smelling months? I'll make a case for December: evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Here, I'll read his explanation. 'Your success in capturing the heart of Lord Westcliff was purely the result of your own magic, and the essential addition to the fragrance was, in fact, yourself.' " Laying the letter in her lap, Lillian grinned at her sister's annoyed expression. "Poor Daisy. I'm sorry that it wasn't real magic.
~ Lisa Kleypas
For my fragrance, I knew I wanted something sweet but with a different side to it. I have a lot of vanilla notes and bakery shop scents, but then I also have muskier notes that make it a bit edgier. It's fun but also sophisticated.
~ Bethany Mota
I like sweet scents like coconut and vanilla.
~ Jeongyeon
I tend to be attracted to darker scents. I'm not a floral girl. But I do like this old fragrance I used to wear called Versace Red Jeans. I have an eBay alert that tells me when it comes back! I think it's more of a nostalgic association that I have with it because a boyfriend had bought it for me when I was, like, 16.
~ Kat Von D