Quotes About Perfume

My mom used to wear the fragrance Poison when I was younger, and I remember that scent and the purple bottle. That was my first [perfume] memory.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

If I were a maker of perfumes, I would make one and call it 'Spring,' and it would smell like this cool, sweet, early-morning air.

I love the smell of estrogen in the morning.

The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.

When I was a boy, I thought scent was contained in dewdrops on flowers and if I got up very early in the morning, I could collect it and make perfume.

Perfume is a story in odors, sometimes a poetry of memory

Some doctors explain love at first sight as arising not from what you see but from what you smell.

From Satan or from God, what matter? Angel or Siren, What matter, if you make - fairy with velvet eyes, Rhythm, perfume, light, o my only queen - The universe less hideous, each moment less strained?

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Everyone coming out of a perfume store is smelling the back of their hand.

If you don't smell good, then you don't look good.

Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.

The party in Alobar's head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.

The empress of the perfumer's palette, jasmine must be harvested before the rising sun to retain the full force of its delicate fragrance. Fragile and fleeting, jasmine is a fair nymph of a flower with a potent perfume. A world without jasmine? Simply unimaginable. -DB

I prefer perfumery, it's the language of love.

An independent woman selects her own perfume—scents to accent her style, her personality, her ambition. —DB

A breakthrough in chemical research led to the creation of aldehydes. Paul Vacher and André Fraysse employed them for Arpège, Ernest Beaux for Chanel No. 5. Aldehydes add a vivid, quick quality to top notes; variations can be powdery, fruity, green, citrusy, floral, or woody. Utterly magical with rose and jasmine absolute, adds sparkle and brilliance. —DB

Perfume is my memory, the chronicle of my life. —DB

Next to any kind of elegance, Claudia loved good clean smells.

In comics, there are depths that don't reveal themselves immediately, and the stuff that you might consider anal about 'Watching the Watchmen' - like the notes where I plot the rotation of a perfume bottle through the air - might not be particularly obvious to anyone who reads it.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

I've been using the same hair wax for as long as I can remember. I'm not a gel guy, I'm not a perfume guy, not really into any of that.