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Quotes About Perfume

The air was full of spices... A Little Princess
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
A shower of sweet odors from a garden roof nibbled at his senses, but no floral perfume could roll back that fallen moon.
~ Frank Herbert
This mustache was obviously perfumed, one was almost tempted to draw near and sniff it.
~ Franz Kafka
There are several ways to 'do' the Lavender Route. You can hook up with a tour, travelling from the old Roman city of Orange or Montelimar and wind up six or seven days later in Grasse, the renowned perfume capital of the world.
~ Carol Drinkwater
A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside.
~ James Stephens
So along with the whiskey and perfume and smoke, she often exuded faint undertones of hay, dust, and the fragrance of horse, which once you smell it you always miss it. Humans were meant to live with the horse.
~ Louise Erdrich
Above this clamour rose the sharp, urgent pheromone of human expectation - a scent compounded less of sex or greed or aggression than of substance abuse, cheap falafel and expensive perfume.
~ M. John Harrison
Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish; but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
~ Sophie Swetchine
Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts' cage a world habitable for men.
~ Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde
He has, like me, a sense of smell. I let him inhale me, then I slip away.
~ Anais Nin
Die Vergangenheit war wie jene altmodischen, mit Kräutern und Blumen gefüllten Duftkissen, deren Aroma die Kleider durchdringt und an ihnen haften bleibt.
~ Anais Nin
She wanted to go in, to be swallowed up in the magic mist at the end of the hall. Inhaling deeply, she smelled the sweet perfume of enchanted men and women, and imagined what it was like to be Gwen Mann.
~ Sarah Beth Martin
I was the only one who ever went in there, and when I did the air always smelled stale and strange, pent up like the sorrow my mother carried in her shoulders, her heart, and her face.
~ Sarah Dessen
In the depths of a man's being there was something that responded with a quack to such perfume. Quack!
~ Saul Bellow
Every tree, every bush, is full of flowers; and one might wish himself transformed into a butterfly, to float about in this ocean of perfume, and find his whole existence in it.
~ Johann Wolfgange Von Gothe
and favored an obscure French perfume that reminded Kirk of dead chanteuses. Madlyn still saw the ghosts
~ John Connolly
Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle, poring over frontispieces. Books! Opening with a crackle of old glue, releasing perfume; closing with a solid thump. He liked them big; he liked them old; he liked them best in many volumes
~ John Crowley
Heterosexual prefixes dissimilar and adopts a natural conception, not as gay who adapts unnatural perception, as since perfume and odor cannot be the same; indeed, I spray perfume.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Heterosexual prefixes dissimilar, and adopts a natural conception, not as gay, who adapts unnatural perception, as since perfume and odour cannot be the same; indeed, I spray perfume.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Love is a fragrance, and no one can stop that.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Opening her handbag, she took out a small bottle of perfume and touched the stopper behind her ears. Its cool, glassy edge felt like her only point of contact with tangible reality.
~ Eileen Chang
We had dry martinis; great wing-shaped glasses of perfumed fire, tangy as the early morning air.
~ Elaine Dundy
One common origin unites us all, but every sort of wood does not give the perfume of the lignum aloes.
~ Arabic proverb
Old women should not seek to be perfumed.
~ Archilochus