Perfume Quotes

342 Perfume quotes by 274 unique authors

A thing that has always baffled me about women is that they will saturate themselves with a pint of perfume, a pound of sachet powder,… — Groucho Marx
And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never really noticed it… — Michael Frayn
I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed furrow. Poetry will be born… — Charles Baudelaire
Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being. — Frances Mayes
Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it. — David Fincher
And, in addition to all the miseries, the young are not wise. They have very little understanding about life. Who wants to live every day… — Morrie Schwartz
I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for… — Emile M. Cioran
I want something mouthwatering and tasty which reminds me of childhood. The scent of a fairground, candy floss, little cakes, chocolates and caramels. Perfume must… — Thierry Mugler
Just like men, perfume is never perfect right away; you have to let it seduce you. — Jean Patou
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it… — Heinrich Heine
Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink. — Katharine Sergeant Angell White
A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging… — Henry Ward Beecher
A person is alive only to the degree that he or she is aware. To make the most of life we must constantly strive to… — Wilferd Peterson
A woman smells well when she smells of nothing. — Plautus
The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none. — Plautus
To smell, though well, is to stink. — Michel de Montaigne
The chemistry of dissatisfaction is as the chemistry of some marvelously potent tar. In it are the building stones of explosives, stimulants, poisons, opiates, perfumes… — Eric Hoffer
A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria,… — S. J. Perelman
The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes,… — Juvenal
After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark,… — Karel Capek
You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct? — Margaret Culkin Banning
I have all that I lost and I go carrying my childhood like a favorite flower that perfumes my hand. — Gabriela Mistral
Childhood smells of perfume and brownies. — David Leavitt
He smelled cold water and cold intrepid green. Those early flowers smelled like cold water. Their fragrance was not the still perfume of high summer;… — Paul Harding
As an impoverished student I used to spend days out in Selfridges, nibbling on samples of free cheese and dousing myself with scent in the… — Zoe Tapper

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