Quotes About Fragrance

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

I think a fragrance is all about sensations and imagery, and can evoke visions, feelings and thoughts.

40 months of blossoming, months of transfiguration, May without cloud and June stabbed to the heart, I shall not ever forget the lilacs or the roses Nor those the spring has kept folded away apart.

Before dawn, the air smelled of lemons.

you seldom hear, at a funeral, a friend of the deceased saying, "What do you expect, she wore L'Heure Bleue

Nobody ever died from wearing Mitsouko, but lots of babies were born as a result of it.

A fragrance of cold rose petals and copper. Like flowers in your bloody throat.

From the old and pleasantly situated village of Mayenfeld, a footpath winds through green and shady meadows to the foot of the mountains, which on this side look down from their stern and lofty heights upon the valley below. The land grows gradually wilder as the path ascends, and the climber has not gone far before he begins to inhale the fragrance of the short grass and sturdy mountain plants, for the way is steep and leads directly up to the summits above.

fragrance of the short grass and sturdy mountain-plants, for the way is steep and leads directly up to the summits above.

Wisteria and red-buds had followed, and then in mid-March the azaleas burst forth in gigantic pillows of white, red, and vermilion. White dogwood blossoms floated like clouds of confectioner's sugar above the azaleas. The scent of honeysuckle

You might say that he had lost the gift of evoking the perfumes of life: sea water, the smoke of burning hemlock, and the breasts of women. He had damaged, you might say, the ear's innermost chamber, where we hear the heavy noise of the dragon's tail moving over the dead leaves.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Just as lotions and fragrance give sensual delight, a sweet friendship refreshes the soul.

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of one's friend springs from his earnest counsel

When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfume

Like the flowers that spread fragrance, your love brings romance in my ordinary life.

Hecate smelt the odour of death as clearly as she might smell the wonderful, scented fragrance of blooming flowers in springtime or the delicious smell of dinner wafting down the hallway.

Death is a dark flower, its perfume heady and dangerous as it pulls you into its bosom.

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

I will not exorcise you—I'd miss your fragrance, the soft tread of your step on the stair

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

She stood with her nose up, sniffing delightedly. It was the delicious mildewy fragrance of old books. Hundreds of them, she saw, looking round the room. Books were lined up on shelves on all four walls, stacked on the floor, and piled on the desk, old books in leather covers mostly, although some of the ones on the floor had newer looking colored jackets.

Thank you, Merciful Lord, for having arranged to provide flowers with fragrance, glow worms with their glow, and to make the stars in the sky sparkle.